World Report 2013 - China |Publisher||Human Rights Watch|
|Publication Date||31 January 2013| |Cite as||Human Rights
Watch, World Report 2013 - China, 31 January 2013, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/510fb4f0c.html [accessed 24 May
2013]| |Disclaimer||This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is
not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its
content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or
publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the
United Nations or its Member States.| China's new leadership,
consisting of the Communist Party's seven permanent standing
committee members, assumed power at the 18th Party Congress in
November, ending the decade-long leadership of Hu Jintao and Wen
Jiabao. That era saw sustained economic growth, urbanization,
and China's rise as a global power, but little progress on human
rights. The government rolled back protections on the
administration of justice, presided over a significant rise in
social unrest, including the largest inte