With the 60th Session of United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva quickly approaching, international human rights Organisations passed a resolution on March the 11th to support the United States to introduce a resolution at the Commission to condemn China for its persecution against Falun Gong practitioners and other human rights abuses.

This resolution points out that China's human rights record continued worsening in the past year. Examples include the on-going repression of spiritual and political groups such as Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetans, Catholics, Protestants, the unjust arrest and detention of spiritual leaders and political dissidents, harsh conditions in prisons and labour camps, forced-labour in labour camps, coercive family planning policies, and deprivation of fundamental freedoms of expression, assembly and press.

“The violent assault on Falun Gong, a peaceful spiritual practice whose three principles are Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance, is a prime example of that very injustice; and the Falun Gong persecution, like other human rights abuses in China, violates the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and China’s own constitution,” the resolution says.

“Women in particular have been the target of numerous forms of sexual violence, including gang rape, sexual assault, and late term forced abortion, for instance, Miss Xingyan Wei, a Falun Gong practitioner and a graduate student from Chongqing University was openly raped by a policeman at the Baihelin Detention Centre in the Shapingba District of Chongqing City,” the resolution says.

The resolution cites the case of Dr. Charles Lee, a United States citizen, who was arrested as he arrived China on January 22, 2003, and was sentenced to a 3-year prison term for no crime but his intention to expose the human rights violations towards Falun Gong practitioners that Chinese government has tried to conceal. The resolution calls the release of Dr. Lee and all other prisoners of conscience.

Furthermore, “over the past 4 years China's diplomatic corps has been actively involved in blacklisting, harassing and persecuting overseas Falun Gong practitioners; and exerting diplomatic and financial pressure on foreign nations, such as Iceland, Germany, Thailand and France, to stop Falun Gong practitioners from holding peaceful protests,” the resolution says.

“These acts by the Jiang regime has greatly endangered the national security of these nations, and jeopardised the principles of freedom, justice and democracy cherished in the West,” the resolution adds.

In addition, the resolution points out that the Jiang regime has coerced overseas corporations and Organisations to ban their ethics by discriminating Falun Gong practitioners in regular business activities, and has forced some multinational corporations to become its accomplice to persecute Falun Gong practitioners by forcing their employees in China to give up their practice.

The resolution calls the United States to continue its tradition in taking the lead in drafting a China Resolution to highlight Falun Gong persecution and other human rights abuses and taking the lead in organising multilateral support to obtain passage by the Commission of such a resolution.

The resolution also calls all countries with representatives at the 60th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Commission to support passage of such a resolution.

A revised resolution has submitted to the U.S. State Department on April 2 and is being submitted to UNCHR and all members of the 60th Session of United Nations Commission on Human Rights .

We keep getting support and sign-on from NGOs and individuals from all over the world. The update signatories of this resolution include: