La Cina tra evoluzione e violazione dei diritti umani

China is nowadays a big and powerful state. Everyone knows the rapid socio-economic development it is going through, but on the other hand this development has not been accompanied by a political one. The Chinese government is still an authoritarian one that keeps overlooking human rights. I have decided to begin my work by talking about the most important document on respect and promotion of human rights: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UDHR has inspired a rich body of legally binding international human rights treaties such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which entered into force in 1976. International human rights law lays down obligations which States are bound to respect. Through ratification of international human rights treaties, Governments undertake to put into place domestic measures and legislation compatible with their treaty obligations and duties. Where domestic legal proceedings fail to address human rights abuses, mechanisms and procedures for individual and group complaints are available at the regional and international levels. The object of the second chapter is one of the most meaningful examples of the Chinese government violating human rights: The Tiananmen Square Protests. Known as June Fourth Incident, these were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing which took place in the spring of 1989. The protests were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital. Despite the indignation of the USA, Europe and other Countries towards PRC decisions in '89, China keeps adopting the same method to avoid citizens' protests. In fact in the Olympic games of 2008 lots of human rights were suppressed: the right to free expression and association, as well as media and press freedom. In the year 2014 the Chinese government denied genuine democracy in Hong Kong. As a result, students boycotted classes and launched demonstrations. Just like with The Tiananmen Square Protests, once again, the police and the government used excessive force in arresting protest leaders. These are the most common and well-known events that keep characterizing Chinese policy when facing its citizens' requests, their rights and the democracy. In the third chapter I've considered the Chinese domestic legal system, and the real conditions of the violations of Human rights. The government censors the press, the Internet, print publications, and academic research, and justifies human rights abuses as necessary to preserve ¿social stability.¿ It carries out involuntary population relocation and rehousing on a massive scale, and enforces highly repressive policies in ethnic minority areas in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia. The Government of the People's Republic of China justifies its abuses with the concept of ¿Asian values¿. According to this idea the welfare of the collective should always be put ahead of the rights of any individual whenever conflicts between these arise. Its position is that the government has the responsibility to design, implement and enforce a ¿harmonious socialist society¿. The final chapter describes and analyzes the impact of the economic rise of China on the UN human rights agenda. As a member of the UN Human Rights Council, China regularly votes to prevent scrutiny of serious human rights situations around the world.