Comparison of Human Rights Values Between the East and the West——Summary of the 2019 China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights

The 2019 China-Europe Seminar on Human Rights hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and Austria-China Friendship Association was successfully held in Austria on June 21,2019.Through this conference,China,as an important representative of Eastern countries of human rights,demonstrated its fruitful theoretical and practical human rights achievements to European countries.The conference also witnessed lively communication and exchanges on human rights values and the human rights discourse system between China and the West,during which scholars of the East and the West discussed the universality and particularity of human rights,and the evolution of human rights under different historical and cultural values.The conference advocated that the concept of a community with a shared future for human beings proposed by China should be incorporated into human rights governance of sovereign states and the international community.The convergence and integration of the human rights concepts of the East and the West will inevitably lead human rights practices of the East and the West to embark on a new journey.

The Evolution Logic,Core Essence and Value Implication of Xi Jinping’s Important Statements on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights

Xi Jinping’s important statements on respecting and protecting human rights are the concentrated expression of the outlook on human rights in contemporary China and the latest achievements of the modernization and adaptation of Marxist human rights theory to suit China.the initiation,origin,formation and development of Xi Jinping’s concept of human rights are the great social practice after reform and opening up.it has innovated and developed the theories on the subject,object,content,focus,path and protection of human rights in a systematic way.it endows human rights civilization with Chinese wisdom and significance,showing profound practical value,theoretical value,time value,and human value to the development of human rights cause in China and the whole world.

An Academic Summary of the International Seminar on “Comparison of the Human Rights value between the East and the West in Epidemic Prevention and Control”

The international video seminar"Comparison of the Human Rights Values between the East and the West in Epidemic Prevention and Control",hosted by the Institute of Human Rights Law of Huazhong University of Science and Technology,was successfully held on May 30,2020.Against the background of the fight against the CO VID-19 pandemic,this seminar fostered exchanges and discussions on human rights values.As the first country that has contained the epidemic successfully,China shared its experience in the practice of human rights values in epidemic prevention and control,while experts from various countries also shared different human rights values embodied in epidemic prevention and control.This seminar allowed for demonstration of the situation of human rights protection in different countries and regions and exchanges of dilemmas and countermeasures during the specific practice of human rights protection.In the collision of different views and the exchange of multi-dimension dialogues,the seminar called for a sense of a global community of health for all and aimed to foster solidarity and international cooperation for greater contributions to the human rights protection in global epidemic prevention and the development of human rights worldwide.

China’s Experience in Safeguarding the Right to Life and Health in Epidemic Response

The novel coronavirus is the most broadly impactful global contagion that humanity has faced in the last century,and it has posed a serious threat to the health and safety of people all over the world.Speaking at the 73rd World Health Assembly on May 18,2020,UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy,and that“both our response and our recovery must put human rights considerations at the center.”