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Communication Activities
On August 31, 2005, the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Arbor, visited the Beijing Children’s Legal Aid and Research Center (BCLARC) and communicated with the lawyers of BCLARC about the human rights and child protection .
On November 23, 2005, the United Nation Human Rights Commission’s Spokesperson on Torture, Manfred Nowak, visited the BCLARC and conducted a discussion on the juvenile criminal justice system.
From September 24 to October 4, 2007, three lawyers from the BCLARC attended the Treaty Body Training Workshop for Civil Society Representatives.
On September 2, 2009, the BCLARC wrote a related report on China’s children’s rights situation and submitted it to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR). From February 4--13, 2009, the Deputy Director of BCLARC attended the Universal Periodic Review of China held in Geneva.
Conducting evidence-based studies to transform the conventions into domestic laws and promote the implementation of the conventions
The BCLARC has always been concerned and conducting direct study of the Convention on the Right of the Child (CRC) and other international treaties.
In 2005, based on long-term research of the CRC and related documents, in cooperation with UNICEF, the BCLARC organized a translation of the Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the translation version was published in 2007.
The BCLARC is also concerned with the results and developments of specialized agencies regarding children’s rights. It published the Discussion on the No.10 Generalized Comments of the United Nations Committee on Children’s Rights in 2007.
Conducting the child protection programs
In its concluding observations on China’s 2nd periodic report on implementation of the CRC, the Committee expressed concern that ‘not all laws applicable to the children fully conform to the Convention’ and went on to recommend that ‘the State party continue to review legislation to ensure full conformity with the principles and provisions of the Convention’. Against this background, commissioned by the UNICEF and the National Working Committee on Children and Women, the BCLARC conducted the research on the legislative framework for children in China and published the report in 2007.
The BCLARC participated in writing part of Chinese reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child commissioned by Chinese Ministry of the Foreign Affairs in 2008.
In 2006 the BCLARC participated in the Project on the System and Network Construction of Child Protection conducted by the UNICEF and Chinese governments. This project tries to establish the system and network in communities to protect children.
In 2006, the BCLARC participated in the Project on the Violence against Children conducted by the UNICEF and the All China Women’s Federation. The BCLARC tried to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child by conducting the project.
In 2009, as the experts, the lawyers from the BCLARC participated in writing “Children Development Outline 2010-2020”.organized by the National Working Committee on Children and Women under the State Council (NWCCW). The Children Development Outlines are the domestic documents to implement the CRC.
In 2009, the BCLARC participated in the Project on the Violence against Children conducted in Zhejiang province, Guangxi province and Shanxi province organized by the UNICEF and All China Women’s Federation. The BCLARC conducted trainings and provided legal advice for the project.
In 2005, the BCLARC began working with the NWCCW on the national evaluation criteria and mid-term assessment of the “Children Development Outline.” Beginning in 2006, three lawyers of the BCLARC were invited to participate as national experts in the “Children Development Outline” and the “Women Development Outline”. |
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Publications
The BCALRC has written and published more than 40 books, 21 of the BCLARC’s publications have received awards from the Ministry of Justice. Including:
1. Science o f Children’s Law, Law Press, March 2001.
2. The Series of Science o f Children’s Law, Law Press, September 2007.
3. Legal Education Book for Youth, Guangming Daily Publishing House October 2009.
4. Guidelines on Legal Education in Middle and Primary Schools, Beijing Normal University Publishing group, January 2010.
5. A Refined Analysis of Rights in Typical Cases Involving Minors, Law Press, October 2007.
6. Mechanisms for the Protection of Children in China, Law Press, December 2008.
7. Practical Legal Workbooks for Elementary and Secondary Schools, Masses Press, February 2004.
8. The Series Books on Protection of Children’s Rights and Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency in China, Guangming Daily Publishing House, October 2002.
9. The Series Books on Lawyer Tong Hot Line, Weapon Industry Press, January 1999.
10. The Series Books on Little Law Doctor, Peking University press, June 2000.
Theses & Reports
1. In March 2001, the BCLARC launched a communications project “For Children: Act for the Protection of Children Rights and Benefits” and in September 2004, renamed this “Chinese Lawyers and the Protection of Children’s Rights” which turned to be bimonthly journal for the special committee on child protection of the ACLA.
2. Introduction to Practice and Pilots on the Protection of Child Victims in Sex Assault Cases in Evaluation of the Domestic Implementation of Article 12 of CRC, 44 China Law. & Child. Rts. Protection 25 (2009).
3. Introduction to framework of the Chinese Juvenile Justice System, China and Law E-Newsletter, No.3 2008, initiated by the French Embassy in China and the Civil Law Initiative.
4. Comments on General Comments No.10-Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice, Rule of Law in Asia E-Newsletter, Vol.1 No.3 Feb. 2008.
5. Review of the Second European Forum on Access to Justice, [May-June 2005] China Legal Aid 43.
6. Sexual Services and Children: A Serious and Thought-Provoking Issue, in Child Law: Social Protection, Law Press, September 2007, p. 294.
7. Report on Private Education for “Floating Population” Children in Beijing, Chinese Lawyers and the Protection of Children’s Rights, 2009, 1.
8. Eight Highlights of Chinese Attorneys' Child Protection Work, Human Rights, 2005, 4.
9. Young Lives as Fragile as Gossamer – Awaiting a Health “Life Preserver”, China Education News, March 9, 2008, p. 3; China Education Website, March 9, 2008.
10. Study of Establishing an Independent Chinese Child Health Insurance System, The Science of Child Law (Social Volume), Legal Press, 2007, p. 79, Revised version reprinted by China Education Daily (3rd Ed, Mar. 9 2008).
11. Children’s Rights Protection in Social Welfare Organizations Which Were Being Paid More Attention, Chinese Lawyers and the Protection of Children’s Rights, 2006, 5, p. 13.
12. Comparative Study of Chinese and U.S. Systems on the Application of Life Imprisonment to Juveniles: Taking the CRC Framework as a Model, The Science of Child Law (Judicial Volume), Law Press, 2007, p. 245.
13. The Way to Protect the Best Interest of Children Who Are out of Qualified Family Care, published in the Conference organized by the UNICEF and the Ministry of Foreign Affaires in Jiangsu in Nov.2007, also available at the website: http://www.chinachild.org/zhi/rdgz/3txt.asp?id=213.
14. Amending the Law on the Protection of Minors in the Context of Protecting Children from Domestic Violence, publicized at the XVIIth ISPCAN International Congress (Sept 7-10, 2008, Hong Kong, China).
15. The Investigation Report on Teachers’ Verbal Violence, Chinese Lawyers and the Protection of Children’s Rights, 2006, 1.
16. Review on Children’s Property Rights, China Women Daily (7th ed., Oct. 25 2005). |
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