Excerpted from Canwest News Service (via Canada.com):

This was China's first appearance before a UN Universal Periodic Review panel and Sharon Hom, executive director of the advocacy group Human Rights in China, called the 30-month old process "a failure."

She said the review "has given China a 'cover' for impunity."

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For more information on this issue:

• “Draft Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review,” UN Human Rights Council, http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/PAGES/CNSession4.aspx ;
• Human Rights in China, “China Rejects UN Recommendations for Substantive Reform to Advance Human Rights; HRIC Summary,” February 11, 2009, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/128130;
• HRIC provides four charts that track UPR recommendations:

  Summary Chart of Rejected UPR Recommendations [PDF, 45K]

  Summary Chart of Accepted UPR Recommendations [PDF, 42K]

  Summary Chart of UPR Recommendations Already Implemented [PDF, 18K]

  Summary Chart of UPR Recommendations to Be Examined [PDF, 20K]

• Human Rights in China, “China's UN Human Rights Review: New Process, Old Politics, Weak Implementation Prospects,” February 9, 2009, http://hrichina.org/public/contents/127014;
• Human Rights Council: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/;
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): http://www.ohchr.org;
• Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review (UPR): http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspx;
• China’s National Report:
  http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session4/CN/A_HRC_WG6_4_CHN_1_E.pdf (Eng);
  
  http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Documents/Session4/CN/A_HRC_WG6_4_CHN_1%20China%20national%20report.pdf (Chi);
• Human Rights in China’s UPR Parallel NGO Report:
  http://hrichina.org/public/PDFs/Submissions/2008_HRIC_UPR_Report.pdf (Eng);

  http://hrichina.org/public/PDFs/HRIC_UPR_Submission_on_China_September_2008-CHI.pdf(Chi);

• Human Rights in China’s NGO Parallel Report submitted to the Committee against Torture (CAT): http://hrichina.org/public/PDFs/Submissions/HRIC-CAT-2008-FINAL.pdf;
• Concluding Observations of the CAT: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CHN.CO.4.pdf;
• Chinese government’s response to the Concluding Observations of the CAT:
  http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/CAT.C.CHN.CO.4.pdf (Eng);

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/co/CAT-C-CHN-CO4_ch.pdf (Chi).