In March 2024, The Rights Practice issued a response to the Hong Kong government regarding our submission on planned Article 23 legislation. Read more
In February 2024, The Rights Practice made a submission to the government of Hong Kong in response to their public consultation on proposed Article 23 national security legislation. Read more
To mark International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023, The Rights Practice, along with seven organisations, released a statement to express concern about ongoing, widespread violations of lawyers by authorities in China and Hong Kong. Read more
The Rights Practice, along with 31 other civil society groups, signed a joint statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing. Read more
On 1 August 2023, The Rights Practice, along with 84 other organisations, signed a joint statement urging Governments and Laos authorities to ensure the release of rights lawyer Lu Siwei. Read more
In July 2023, The Rights Practice submitted a report for the fourth cycle of the UN Universal Periodic Review of China. Read more
In July 2023, The Rights Practice published its latest briefing paper "Disappeared by the State: Tracing Uyghur Relatives in China”. Read more
On 7 December 2022, The Rights Practice, along with 48 other organisations, signed a joint statement calling on China to cease detaining and harassing peaceful protesters. Read more
The Rights Practice, along with 25 other civil society groups, call on Chinese authorities to respect the rights of two young Chinese human rights defenders: Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing. Read more
On 19 April 2022, The Rights Practice signed a joint statement, with a total of 60 human rights organisations, setting out the minimum conditions to be met for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' visit to China to be credible. Read more
In April 2022, The Rights Practice responded to a call from the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, which focused on the imposition of the death penalty and its impact in China. Read more
In March 2022, The Rights Practice was happy to respond to a call for submissions to the UN Secretary-General's report on the question of the death penalty. Our submission focuses on China, and developments since 1 July 2020. Read more
On 8 March 2022, The Rights Practice join over 190 human rights organisations to urge the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to release a report on grave human rights violations in Xinjiang. Read more
In February 2022, The Rights Practice was pleased to submit this report to the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. We focus on Chinese, and Hong Kong, civil society organisations' ability to access resources. Read more
On 18 February 2022, The Rights Practice publishes important new report "(Ab)use of Law. Criminal Proceedings in Xinjiang". Read how China is using its powers to deprive persons of their liberty in Xinjiang. Read more
In December 2021, The Rights Practice was pleased to submit this response to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers. Our submission focuses on the protection of lawyers in China. Read more
In November 2021, we submitted a mid-term report reflecting on the last UN UPR of China, which took place in 2018. We focus on the use of the death penalty and the deprivation of liberty and risk of torture. Read more
In October 2021, we publish a briefing paper to analyse recent developments for Hong Kong civil society since a new National Security Law was adopted in July 2020. Read more
On 17 September 2021, The Rights Practice joins a coalition of 44 human rights NGOs to urge the Chinese authorities to release Covid-19 reporter Zhang Zhan. She's on hunger strike and reportedly force fed. Read more
On the 24th anniversary of the Hong Kong handover, The Rights Practice co-signed a statement to urge the international community to take effective actions to halt the rapid decline of civil-political liberties in Hong Kong at the behest of Chinese authorities. Read more
In June 2021, we released a Working Paper on Criminal Law and Deprivation of Liberty in the XUAR. The paper delves into official statistics and Chinese law to try and understand how the criminal law is being used to detain Uyghurs. Read more
In March 2021, The Rights Practice responded to a call for submissions to the UN Secretary General. This focused on the consequences of the lack of transparency in the application and imposition of the death penalty on the enjoyment of human rights. Read more
Read our joint appeal, along with 35 other civil society organisations, calling on European institutions to include enforceable human rights clauses in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI). Read more
December 2020. The Rights Practice recently surveyed Uyghurs living in the UK. Our survey revealed a community desperate for information about relatives in Xinjiang. Read more