Authoritative Reports Centre

The formal fourth-cycle UPR report records recommendations made by states and forms a primary reference for assessing China’s international human-rights commitments.

Uses international treaties and UN mechanisms to separate state submissions, independent information, factual findings, legal assessment and recommendations.

This addendum records China’s position on recommendations received during the fourth UPR cycle.

Uses international treaties and UN mechanisms to separate state submissions, independent information, factual findings, legal assessment and recommendations.

OHCHR’s assessment examines arbitrary detention, torture or ill-treatment, religious and cultural rights, family separation and forced-labour concerns in Xinjiang.

Uses international treaties and UN mechanisms to separate state submissions, independent information, factual findings, legal assessment and recommendations.

The update outlines continuing OHCHR engagement and concerns relating to Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, human-rights defenders and civil society.

Uses international treaties and UN mechanisms to separate state submissions, independent information, factual findings, legal assessment and recommendations.

The annual report evaluates freedom of religion or belief worldwide and makes policy recommendations to the United States Government.

Organised by annual trends, rights areas, affected groups, legal and policy developments, and accountability recommendations, supported by public cases and official sources.

The China chapter provides a focused assessment of religious-freedom conditions and policy recommendations.

Organised by annual trends, rights areas, affected groups, legal and policy developments, and accountability recommendations, supported by public cases and official sources.

This factsheet identifies patterns of detention, disappearance, sentencing and surveillance affecting leaders of different religious communities.

Organised by annual trends, rights areas, affected groups, legal and policy developments, and accountability recommendations, supported by public cases and official sources.

USCIRF’s country portal brings together annual reports, factsheets, statements and prisoner information concerning China.

Organised by annual trends, rights areas, affected groups, legal and policy developments, and accountability recommendations, supported by public cases and official sources.

The State Department’s annual China report addresses arbitrary detention, torture, judicial independence, expression, religion and transnational repression.

Organised by annual trends, rights areas, affected groups, legal and policy developments, and accountability recommendations, supported by public cases and official sources.

The report documents China’s religious legal framework, enforcement, detention and restrictions affecting different faith communities.

Organised by annual trends, rights areas, affected groups, legal and policy developments, and accountability recommendations, supported by public cases and official sources.

The official collection used by UKVI in asylum and human-rights decision-making covers political opposition, religion, Hong Kong, Xinjiang and other protection issues.

Structured for UK asylum decision-making: executive summary, risk assessment, country evidence, state protection, internal relocation and relevant case law.

This CPIN addresses political dissent, perceived opposition to the state, surveillance, detention risk, state protection and internal relocation.

Structured for UK asylum decision-making: executive summary, risk assessment, country evidence, state protection, internal relocation and relevant case law.

The 72-page report covers the political system, human-rights framework, religion, political opinion, arbitrary detention, torture, state protection, relocation and returnees.

Prepared for protection and refugee-status assessment, covering political institutions, justice, affected groups, social conditions, state protection and relocation.

The report examines methods, target communities and policy responses concerning PRC transnational repression.

Organised by annual trends, rights areas, affected groups, legal and policy developments, and accountability recommendations, supported by public cases and official sources.

The annual report reviews human rights and rule of law in China and makes recommendations to Congress and the Administration.

Organised by annual trends, rights areas, affected groups, legal and policy developments, and accountability recommendations, supported by public cases and official sources.

The Convention establishes the refugee definition, core rights and state obligations, including the international foundation for protection against refoulement.

Uses international treaties and UN mechanisms to separate state submissions, independent information, factual findings, legal assessment and recommendations.

The Protocol removes the original temporal and geographic limitations of the 1951 Convention and gives the protection framework universal application.

Uses international treaties and UN mechanisms to separate state submissions, independent information, factual findings, legal assessment and recommendations.

The Handbook explains the refugee definition, burden and standard of proof, credibility, persecution grounds and protection criteria.

Uses international treaties and UN mechanisms to separate state submissions, independent information, factual findings, legal assessment and recommendations.

The Guidelines explain how belief, identity, way of life, forced recantation and concealed practice may engage the refugee definition.

Uses international treaties and UN mechanisms to separate state submissions, independent information, factual findings, legal assessment and recommendations.