Staff Briefing Lunch: Congressional-Executive Commission on China's 2016 Annual Report

CECC’s expert staff, who are fluent in Chinese and have lived and studied extensively in China, will discuss the findings and recommendations of the CECC’s 2016 Annual Report issued on October 6, 2016, which found a disturbing deterioration in human rights and rule of law conditions.  The Commission’s 2016 Annual Report coincides with the 15th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization. The CECC’s Annual Report noted that that Chinese government has failed to implement the substantive legal reforms anticipated 15 years ago but rather persisted in violating international human rights standards and its own domestic laws, resulting in lasting harm to both U.S. interests and the Chinese people.

 

The CECC, which consists of Senators, House Members, and senior Administration officials, was created by Congress in 2000 to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, and to issue an annual report to the President and Congress. The report covers 19 areas of interest to U.S. policymakers, including freedom of expression and the Internet, worker rights, criminal justice, freedom of religion, Tibet, commercial rule of law, population control, human trafficking, Xinjiang, North Korean refugees in China, the status of women, public health, the environment, civil society, democratic governance, and Hong Kong/Macau.

 

To RSVP or for further information, please contact Judy Wright, the CECC’s Director of Administration at Judy.Wright@mail.house.gov or (202) 226-3767.

 

Pizza lunch will be served

 

For more information about the CECC, please visit our Web site at www.cecc.gov.