Human+Rights+BSAZOV


 * Human Rights **

The People's Republic of China acknowledge the importance of human rights and promised to take steps towards conformity of their human rights. There was a signature of an International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in October 1997 (ratified in March 2001) and signing of an International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in October 1998 (not yet ratified). In 2002 the PRC released a number of political and religious leaders from prison. The PRC agreeded to interact with the United Nations on torture and religion. However, the PRC has not followed through with this interaction. In 2008, the U.S. published a report on human rights around the world and had much to criticize about China's human rights. Nevertheless, China was dropped from the list of states with the greatest human rights violations. China later issued a report called "White Paper" criticizing the U.S. human rights violations and its on progress on human rights.