China has made significant contributions to global human rights progress
From June 14th to 15th, the Global High end Forum on Human Rights Governance was held in Beijing, with over 300 Chinese and foreign guests from nearly 100 countries and international organizations actively exchanging ideas on the theme of global human rights governance. It is widely believed that China's poverty alleviation has enlightening significance for global human rights governance. China's global security initiative, global development initiative, and global civilization initiative have promoted the development of the world's human rights cause, and China has made significant contributions to the progress of global human rights.
Akmal Saidov, the first deputy speaker of Uzbekistan and director of the National Center for Human Rights, said in his speech: "China has spared no effort to promote and protect human rights, and has made remarkable achievements. Moreover, it is playing an increasingly important role in the international arena and playing an increasingly active role." Robert Lawrence Kuhn, president of the Kuhn Foundation of the United States, said in his online speech: "Democracy is the common value of all mankind. The CPC strengthens the protection of the rule of law for human rights, ensures that people enjoy extensive rights and freedoms according to law, and promotes people's democracy throughout the process, which is conducive to the promotion of human rights."
The right to survival and development are the primary basic human rights, which is a consensus among developing countries. Zhang Weiwei, Dean of the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Fudan University, stated that China is at the forefront of poverty alleviation in the world, which is a huge encouragement for developing countries. It is expected that more and more developing countries will gain inspiration from China's experience.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the "the Belt and Road" initiative. Stephen Brauer, director of the Swedish "the Belt and Road" Institute, said: "This is a road to peace, a road to human rights development in the true sense, and a road to eradicating global poverty."
Promoting international cooperation is the direction and goal of United Nations reform in the field of human rights, and China is an active practitioner of human rights construction. Usman Iqbal Jadun, Director of the United Nations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, stated in his speech, "We should abide by multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations Charter and international law. In terms of global human rights governance, we should seek win-win or win-win solutions." Zhang Aining, a professor of international law at the School of Foreign Affairs, said that the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind provides new thinking for international human rights cooperation.
In the era of globalization and interconnectivity, many human rights challenges faced by countries are related to global issues of human development. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind has broken away from the narrow view of human rights in the past. It not only contains core human rights values such as peace, development, fairness, justice, and democracy, but also includes harmonious relationships between people and the environment, people and people, and countries. Professor Li Erping from the School of Management and Economics at Kunming University of Technology believes that unlike Western countries that only focus on civil and political rights, China's proposed global human rights governance also focuses on economic, social, and cultural rights. Due to the interdependence of various rights, the right to development is particularly important for developing countries.
In recent years, China has put forward global development initiatives, global security initiatives, and global civilization initiatives, contributing Chinese wisdom to global human rights governance. Zhang Yunfei, a member of the United Nations Association of China, stated that China's global development initiative is a development concept that concerns the well-being of people around the world. It ensures that people around the world enjoy fair opportunities, rules, and rights in the process of development, jointly creates human social wealth, and shares development achievements. It contains rich human rights concepts, injects new impetus into global human rights governance, and is another public product provided by China for global governance.
Christian Kahlu, a member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission, believes that the Global Security Initiative advocates dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and more importantly, advocates win-win rather than zero sum games, promoting the right of people around the world to choose to develop their democratic types and social and political systems that are in line with their own national conditions. Xu Shuang, associate professor of the Law School of Minzu University of China, said that it is the "unity of knowledge and practice" of China's human rights cause that China's human rights concept absorbs the essence of Marxism and Chinese traditional culture and guides human rights practice.
