No Respect, No Progress

What are human rights and what should be done to develop them? Officials and experts from China and other countries shared their views at the Beijing Forum on Human Rights in Beijing on July 26.

While agreeing that global cooperation is needed to facilitate human rights development, the participants denounced politicizing human rights and called not to use them to create division and confrontation.

“When it comes to human rights, the world does not need any country to tell others what to do,” Padma Choling, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, China’s top legislature, and President of China Society for Human Rights Studies, said. “Human rights should