Ethnic Minority Rights
Urging China’s President Xi To Stop State-Sponsored Human Rights Abuses
September 18, 2015
| Hearing
Lawyers Cite Procedural Violations, Await Decision on Appeal in Ilham Tohti Case
November 17, 2014
| Commission Analysis
CECC Chairs Issue Statements on Ilham Tohti’s Sentencing, Concerned about Fate of Students Detained With Him
October 1, 2014
| Press Release
Understanding China’s Crackdown on Rights Advocates: Personal Accounts and Perspectives
April 8, 2014
| Hearing
Authorities Heighten Persecution of Detained Mongol Rights Advocate's Wife and Son
December 13, 2012
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Draft Legal Measures Promote Hiring Ethnic Minorities, Against Track Record of Employment Discrimination
November 18, 2011
| Commission Analysis
State Council Opinion Bolsters Grazing Ban, Herder Resettlement
October 18, 2011
| Commission Analysis
Mongols Protest in Inner Mongolia After Clashes Over Grasslands Use, Mining Operations
July 1, 2011
| Commission Analysis
State Council Opinions on Promoting Sound and Fast Development of Pastoral Areas
June 1, 2011
| PRC Legal Provision
Job Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities Continues in Xinjiang
March 31, 2011
| Commission Analysis
Chinese Government Bolsters Grazing Ban; Xinjiang Government Promotes Herder Resettlement
March 22, 2011
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang's First Large-Scale Training Class for Ethnic Minority Lawyers Stresses Meeting Political Goals
January 19, 2011
| Commission Analysis
Mongol Activist, Family Members Harassed and Detained as Release Date of Political Prisoner Hada Nears (Updated)
December 8, 2010
| Commission Analysis
Discriminatory Job Hiring Practices Continue in Xinjiang
October 20, 2010
| Commission Analysis
Mongol Rights Advocate Sodmongol Remains in Custody Following April Detention at Beijing Airport
October 20, 2010
| Commission Analysis
Authorities Bolster Ethnic Unity Campaigns, Promote Spreading Party Policy During Ethnic Minority Holidays
August 9, 2010
| Commission Analysis
Number of Students Receiving Mandarin-Focused "Bilingual" Education in Xinjiang Continues To Rise
April 6, 2010
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang "Ethnic Unity" Regulation Imposes Party Policy, Restricts Free Expression
February 24, 2010
| Commission Analysis
Party Official Adds More Preconditions Before Dalai Lama Dialogue Can Resume
December 9, 2009
| Commission Analysis
Human Rights and the Rule of Law in China
October 7, 2009
| Hearing
Employment Discrimination Persists During Implementation of the Employment Promotion Law
July 2, 2009
| Commission Analysis
Recruitment for State Jobs in Xinjiang Discriminates Against Ethnic Minorities
July 2, 2009
| Commission Analysis
China's Responses at the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review
July 2, 2009
| Commission Analysis
Two Men in Inner Mongolia in Detention for Involvement in Mongolian Organization and for Planned Protest
June 24, 2009
| Commission Analysis
Government Calls for Strengthening Propaganda on Ethnic Policy
February 17, 2009
| Commission Analysis
Governments in Xinjiang Continue to Sponsor, Sanction Job Recruitment That Discriminates Against Ethnic Minorities
February 9, 2009
| Commission Analysis
Chinese Government Mandates "Ethnic Unity Education" to Promote Party Policy on Ethnic Groups
February 3, 2009
| Commission Analysis
Inner Mongolia Legal Provisions Include Focus on Ethnic Minority Women
December 20, 2008
| Commission Analysis
New Science and Technology Plan for Ethnic Minorities Raises Questions About Ethnic Minority Rights
December 20, 2008
| Commission Analysis
Mongolian Rights Advocate Released From Detention, Placed Under House Arrest
June 28, 2008
| Commission Analysis
Hunan Authorities Issue New Legal Measures To Regulate Folk Belief Venues
May 5, 2008
| Commission Analysis
TIN: Report Shows Tibetans in TAR Losing Ground in Public Sector Employment
November 1, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Central Government Expands Broadcast Coverage in Minority Areas
November 1, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Xinhua: Qinghai-Tibet Railroad Tracks Laid At Tanggula Pass in Qinghai
November 1, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Ministry of Education Offers Loan Waivers to Graduates Who "Go West" To Find Work
October 3, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Communist Party Adds Tibetan Affairs Bureau to the United Front Work Department
October 3, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Official Evaluates Regional Ethnic Autonomy in Inner Mongolia
August 31, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Government Announces Extension of Qinghai-Tibet Railway to Rikaze
August 31, 2006
| Commission Analysis
City in Xinjiang Mandates Exclusive Use of Mandarin Chinese in Schools
August 30, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Inner Mongolia Government Promotes Mongolian Language
August 30, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Court Imprisons One Tibetan Writer, Party Officials Shut Down Another's Blogs
August 30, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Qinghai-Tibet Railway Raises Environmental Concerns Despite Protection Efforts
July 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Qinghai-Tibet Railway Begins Operation
July 25, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Authorities Try Mongol Couple, Assault Son of Imprisoned Mongol Activist
July 25, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Civil Servant Recruitment in Xinjiang Favors Han Chinese
July 25, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Two Ethnic Minority Web Sites in Inner Mongolia Closed
June 30, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Physician Arrested for Practicing "Mongol Version of Falun Gong"
June 22, 2006
| Commission Analysis
RFA: Three Tibetans Jailed for Suspected Separatism
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
China Releases Geshe Sonam Phuntsok Upon Completion of Prison Term
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
RFA and TIN reports: Tibetan Monk Arrested After Blaze in Ganzi
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
U.S. Senate Passes Resolution Calling for Release of Chinese Political Prisoners, Including Tenzin Deleg
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Xinhua: Tenzin Deleg May Receive Commutation When Reprieve of Death Sentence Expires on January 26
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
European Parliament Adopts Resolution on Tenzin Deleg and Rule of Law in China
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
TIN: New Information Emerges on Sentence Reductions for Tibetan Political Prisoners
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
RFA: Five Tibetan Monks Imprisoned in Qinghai
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Police Detain Tibetan Monk From Prominent Qinghai Monastery
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
RFA: Tibetan College Graduates Protest in Qinghai, Claim Job Discrimination
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Court Official Acknowledges Imprisoning Tibetans Who Carried Dalai Lama Photos Into the TAR
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
RFA: Three Tibetans, Previously Unknown, Sentenced for Dalai Lama Photos, Teachings
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Potala Palace Monk Detained Before TAR 40th Anniversary
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
TAR Official Says Gedun Choekyi Nyima Living In His Hometown
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
UN Committee on Rights of the Child Urges China To Allow Visit to Boy Named As Panchen Lama
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
UN Committee Recommends Independent Expert to Visit Boy Named As Panchen Lama
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Monk Dies Following Dispute with Patriotic Education Instructors
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Additional Details Emerge on Religious Crackdown in Lhasa
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Five Drepung Monks Detained During Patriotic Education, Prompting Silent Protest
January 26, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Tech School Sends Largest Group of Minority Graduates Ever to Jobs in Shenzhen
January 25, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Authorities Detain More Than 40 for Possessing "Illegal Religious Materials"
January 18, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Chinese Government Releases Uighur Businesswoman Rebiya Kadeer
January 10, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Police Form Special Unit To Investigate Exiled Activist Rebiya Kadeer
January 9, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Chinese Police Attempt to Take into Custody Son of Uighur Activist Rebiya Kadeer
January 9, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Communist Party Official Promoted to Acting Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region
January 5, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Qinghai-Tibet Railway Passenger Service to Begin in July 2006, Six Months Early
January 3, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Government Promotes Mandarin Chinese Use Through Bilingual Education
January 3, 2006
| Commission Analysis
Chinese-Installed Panchen Lama Pledges to Meet Communist Party Expectations
January 1, 2006
| Commission Analysis
State Council Announces Provisions on Implementing the Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law
December 15, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Ministry of Health to Distribute HIV/AIDS Prevention Guides in Minority Languages
December 5, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Regulation on Minority Language Work
November 3, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Authorities Close Two Mongolian-Language Web Sites for Posting "Separatist" Materials
October 28, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Lhasa Area Monks and Nuns Face a New Round of "Patriotic Education"
October 27, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Reporters Without Borders Ranks China as 1 of 10 Worst Countries for Press Freedom
October 27, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Police Reportedly Bar Uighur Haj Pilgrimage By Confiscating Passports
October 26, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Government Assigns Largest Group of Ethnic Han Officials to Date to Posts in Uighur Areas
September 27, 2005
| Commission Analysis
ETIC Reports Xinjiang Authorities Have Increased Harrassment of Uighurs
September 7, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Uighur Separatists Arrested in Xinjiang's Hetian Prefecture
September 7, 2005
| Commission Analysis
U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture to Visit China in November
September 1, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Qiansu City Expands Legal Counseling Services for Ethnic Migrants
August 31, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Prefecture Bans Sala Branch of Islam and Reportedly Arrests 179
August 31, 2005
| Commission Analysis
40 Percent of New Civil Service Positions "In Theory" Reserved for Ethnic Minorities in One Xinjiang Prefecture
August 17, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Han University Volunteers Who Speak Minority Languages Exempted From Civil Service Exam
August 1, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Police Clash With Ethnic Mongol Farmers Over Land Rights
August 1, 2005
| Commission Analysis
State Ethnic Affairs Commission Stresses Need to Increase Transparency in Work
August 1, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang's New Vocational Degree Programs To Be Taught Exclusively in Mandarin Chinese
July 28, 2005
| Commission Analysis
US Journalist Describes Chinese Government Attempts to Silence Reporting from Xinjiang
July 15, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Dalai Lama's Envoys Meet Chinese Officials in Switzerland for Fourth Round of Talks
July 1, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Report: Dalai Lama Says a Democratic Tibet Would Not Need Another Dalai Lama
July 1, 2005
| Commission Analysis
700,000 Poor Residents Relocated Within Western China Since 2000
June 29, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Measures Regarding Chinese Muslims Registering To Go Abroad on Pilgrimages (Trial) (Chinese Text)
June 16, 2005
| PRC Legal Provision
Propaganda About the Unity of Nationalities Intensifies During June
June 8, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Railway Bridge Completed at Lhasa; Tibetan Farmers Object to Compensation Amount
May 31, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Workers Daily States New Incentives Needed To Retain Local Workers in Xinjiang
May 31, 2005
| Commission Analysis
State Ethnic Affairs Report Discusses Poverty in Minority Areas
May 31, 2005
| Commission Analysis
State Council Announces Five Year Plan for Minorities with Small Populations
May 25, 2005
| Commission Analysis
New Regulations May Help Mongols Increase the Use of Their Own Language
May 24, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Government Policy Toward Minorities Depends on Sending Han Cadre to Minority Areas
May 23, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Provisions on Implementing the Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law (Chinese and English Text)
May 11, 2005
| PRC Legal Provision
Xinjiang County Government Promotes Chinese Language Training Projects for Uighur Students
May 10, 2005
| Commission Analysis
County Survey Reveals Widespread Acceptance of Religion Among Hui Party Members
April 27, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Xinjiang Government Announces 2005 Admission Standards for Middle and High Schools
April 22, 2005
| Commission Analysis
China's Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law: Does It Protect Minority Rights?
April 11, 2005
| Roundtable
Xinjiang Government Says Ethnic Han Chinese Will Get 500 of 700 New Civil Service Appointments
April 7, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Tibetan Copper Mine to Tap China's Largest Proven Reserve
April 7, 2005
| Commission Analysis
State Council White Paper on Regional Autonomy Reviews Minority Policies
March 29, 2005
| Commission Analysis
South Central Nationalities University Opens New Legal Aid Center
March 23, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Nankai University Students Promote Patriotism in Privately Sponsored Islamic School
March 21, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Inner Mongolian Tribe Prevents Private Takeover of Traditional Shrine
March 21, 2005
| Commission Analysis
State Council Announces New Plan to Increase Number of Minorities With Advanced Degrees
March 2, 2005
| Commission Analysis
"Flourishing Borders, Prosperous Nationalities" Campaign Expanded
February 1, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Xinhua: Tenzin Deleg Death Penalty Commuted to Life Imprisonment
January 26, 2005
| Commission Analysis
Ethnic Rioting Breaks Out in Henan Villages, Martial Law Imposed
November 1, 2004
| Commission Analysis
Family Planning Activities among the Tujia and the Miao Minorities of Guizhou (story in Chinese)
September 20, 2004
| Commission Analysis
Teaching and Learning Tibetan: The Role of the Tibetan Language in Tibet's Future
April 7, 2003
| Roundtable
Open Forum: Public Perspectives on Human Rights Practices in China
December 9, 2002
| Roundtable
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Regulation on Minority Language Work (Chinese Text)
September 20, 2002
| PRC Legal Provision
Open Forum on Human Rights Issues
August 5, 2002
| Roundtable
Ethnic Minorities in China: Tibetans and Uighurs
June 10, 2002
| Roundtable
Regional Ethnic Autonomy Law of the People's Republic of China (Chinese and English Text)
February 28, 2001
| PRC Legal Provision
Issues
- Access to Justice
- Civil Society
- Commercial Rule of Law
- Criminal Justice
- Developments in Hong Kong & Macau
- The Environment
- Ethnic Minority Rights
- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Religion
- Freedom of Residence & Movement
- Human Trafficking
- Institutions of Democratic Governance
- North Korean Refugees in China
- Population Planning
- Public Health
- Status of Women
- Tibet
- Worker Rights
- Xinjiang