Andréa Worden, August 6, 2019

Paper presented at the workshop “Mapping China’s footprint in the world II”, organised by Sinopsis and the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Published by Sinopsis.

Introduction and background

In the first two resolutions the PRC sponsored and shepherded through to adoption in the Human Rights Council (June 2017 and March 2018), a request was included for the HRC’s Advisory Committee (HRCAC)—the Council’s “think tank”—to conduct a study relating to the topic of the resolution. The subject of the June 2017 resolution was “the contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights”,¹ and China’s follow-on resolution dealt with “promoting mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of human rights.”² These “studies” were not academic exercises, but rather, with the PRC member of the obscure HRCAC chairing the drafting groups for both studies, a means to further entrench the Chinese Party-state’s human rights agenda and discourse into the work of the HRC.

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