Draft Disciplinary Law Issued; Abuse Fears Raised
This week, Chinese authorities released for public consultation a draft of the new Supervision...
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Doubts Surround End of Abusive Shuanggui Detention
Shuanggui, or “dual designation,” is an opaque and reportedly brutal system of secret...
Registration of Foreign NGOs Crawls Past 1%
China’s new foreign NGO management law came into effect on January 1, bringing strict...
Mixed Fears for Rights Protection in New Civil Code
On Wednesday, the National People’s Congress took a step towards the creation of China’s first...
The Long View on China’s Foreign NGO Law
More than two months after China’s new Foreign NGO Management Law took effect, Chinese civil...
The Origins and Intentions of China’s Foreign NGO Law
China’s long-awaited Foreign NGO Management Law took effect on January 1st, after an...
Peter Dahlin’s Detention and the Future of NGOs in China
On Sunday, The New York Times published an interview with Peter Dahlin, the Swedish legal NGO head...
Navigating China’s New Era of Civil Society Regulation
This year has already seen the passage of new laws governing domestic charities and foreign NGOs....
China Pledges Crackdown on ‘Hostile Forces’
Chinese authorities have announced this week that combating “hostile forces” is a top...
U.N. Commissioner: Security Law “Too Broad, Vague”
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has expressed concern over...
China Approves Sweeping National Security Law
After draft national security legislation was criticized by analysts in May for its exceptionally...
NGOs in China: Public Consultation and Party Creep
Thursday marks, among other things, the end of the public consultation period on China’s...
30 Lawyers’ Proposal on Halting Foreign NGO Law
The text below is a proposal by 30 Chinese lawyers to the National People’s Congress for the...
Pushing for a Law Against Domestic Violence in China
The New York Times’ Didi Kirsten Tatlow describes the campaign for better legal protections...
New Mental Health Law Comes Into Effect
China’s first mental health law, passed by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee last October after attempts spanning almost 30 years, came into effect on May 1st. Besides protecting patient privacy and...
New Mental Health Law: More Problems than Solutions?
China passed its first mental health law in October, after almost thirty years of efforts. The new law is intended to address issues such as patent privacy and wrongful institutionalisation but, according to Elizabeth M. Lynch...
Law Promises to Stop Forced Psychiatric Treatment
Xinhua reports that, after almost 30 years of efforts, China has adopted its first mental health law to protect patient privacy and other rights, and to combat the problem of wrongful institutionalisation. Under the new law,...
China Stamps Its Authority on Hong Kong (Washington Post)
Reuters Tuesday, April 6, 2004; 4:10 AM By Alison Leung and Carrie Lee Click here for full article. “The Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) passed an interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law giving Beijing full control over the territory’s political reform. The leaders of China’s parliament interpreted two clauses in Hong Kong’s […]
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