Progress in China's Human Rights Cause in 2003

BEIJING, March 30 -- The Information Office of the State Council on Tuesday issued a white paper titled "Progress in China's Human Rights Cause in 2003." The following is the full text of the document:

Progress in China's Human Rights Cause in 2003

Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China

March 2004, Beijing

Contents

Foreword

I. The People's Rights to Subsistence and Development

II. Civil and Political Rights

III. Judicial Guarantee for Human Rights

IV. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

V. The Rights and Interests of Women and Children

VI. Equal Rights and Special Protection for Ethnic Minorities

VII. The Rights and Interests of the Disabled

VIII. International Exchanges and Cooperation in Human Rights

White Papers of the Chinese Government