Where we work

Much of our work is focused on China and working with Chinese partners. This reflects our history as an organisation and the expertise and experience of staff and many of our Trustees.

As a large economy and global power, China's views on human rights have an impact well beyond its borders. Although the Chinese Communist Party has adopted an increasingly critical stance in recent years towards the universality of human rights, our experience reveals a more complex and encouraging picture. We find huge interest in human rights among the lawyers, NGOs and legal scholars with whom we work. Equally, we observe frustration with the restrictions on freedom of expression and association that would allow these ideas and better practice to be promoted in China.

As part of our work to help partners put human rights into practice, we have encouraged professional exchanges with many Asian countries (the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and South Korea) and within Europe. We have also carried out consulting assignments for projects in Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Latest

Interim Review of the Death Penalty in China

As part of our work engaging with China on the death penalty, we decided to undertake a review of how far the minimum standards were respected in China’s application of the death penalty. We have produced this interim report in time for the 8th World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Brussels.
Access to Education Proposals in Shenzhen

The city of Shenzhen has made headway in enabling the children of migrant workers access to the same education rights as their urban peers.
Empirical Research and the Death Penalty

Legal scholars, policy advocates and PhD students exploring the use of empirical research on the death penalty and policy advocacy in Asia.
Adopt Resolution at UN Human Rights Council

The Rights Practice signed a joint letter, with 40 organisations in total, calling on governments to adopt a resolution addressing human rights violations in China.