{"id":49552,"date":"2015-09-27T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=49552 "},"modified":"2015-09-27T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T00:19:00","slug":"49552-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=49552","title":{"rendered":"Rights Groups Criticize Xi Participation in UN Women\\&#8217;s Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/39\/2015927A63136D0-8DF5-4CA3-98B6-0DDDD9773841_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy5_cw0.jpg\" alt=\"2015927A63136D0-8DF5-4CA3-98B6-0DDDD9773841_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy5_cw0.jpg (640&#215;360)\" \/><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, attends the Sustainable Development Summit 2015, Sept. 26, 2015 at United Nations headquarters.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Saibal Dasgupta, William Ide<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Last updated on: September 26, 2015 8:03 AM<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday addresses a United Nations conference on gender equality, an event which has drawn criticism because of his government&#8217;s policies that have been called the worst crackdown on rights in decades.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;I am not optimistic this kind of involvement by China&#8217;s top leader would bring changes for women activists on the ground,&#8221; said Frances Eve, a Hong Kong-based researcher with China Human Rights Defenders, an NGO. &nbsp;&#8220;The Chinese government takes no responsibility for imprisonment of activists expressing their distress at the condition of women in the country.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>In March, Chinese authorities detained five women who had staged a demonstration ahead of International Women&#8217;s Day, protesting sexual harassment on public transportation. &nbsp;They have since been released, but say they could still face charges.&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Rights group Amnesty International says that since President Xi came to power in late 2012, authorities have carried out &#8220;unprecedented attacks on civil society,&#8221; curbing freedom of expression, detaining lawyers and other rights activists.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Chinese authorities say the country&#8217;s record on women&#8217;s rights is clear.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;As long as you don&#8217;t wear [rose] colored glasses and have an objective view, you will reach a fair conclusion about the important achievements women have made in China,&#8221; Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei recently said.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>China&#8217;s tool<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Analysts say Beijing is likely trying to enhance its prestige in the area of human rights and could be setting the stage for exporting government-funded non-government organizations across the world.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;Internationalizing China&#8217;s NGO&#8217;s can facilitate a better understanding of the laws, policies, culture, communities and religion of different countries,&#8221; said Huang Haoming, executive director of government-backed China Association for NGO Cooperation, in a recent article.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>Huang also wrote that the process of internationalizing Chinese NGO&#8217;s &#8220;contributes to national diplomacy.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Having officially-backed NGO&#8217;s in different parts of the world would enhance China&#8217;s political influence, analysts said.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Eve, researcher at CHRD, also questioned the United Nations&#8217; decision to become a co-host in the conference, giving the impression that it approves of the reprisals on women activists in China.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&#8220;It is a slap on the face of women activists, who were detained to have their voices heard by the United Nations and the outside world,&#8221; she said. &nbsp;Such a move might prove to be discouraging for bold activists who take great risks to speak for the distress of unprivileged women.&#8221;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/article\/2980181.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;In March, Chinese authorities detained five women who had staged a demonstration ahead of International Women&amp;#8217;s Day, protesting sexual harassment on public transportation. &amp;nbsp;They have since been released, but say they could still face charges.&amp;nbsp;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}