Another round of the China-Australia Human Rights
Dialogue is being held in Beijing on Monday, which this year will
focus on HIV/AIDS.?
The Australian delegation will visit central
China's Hunan
Province to look out how the country has been dealing with the
epidemic.
They will also raise many other issues, including
China's legal system, labor rights, women's rights, religious
freedoms, Tibet and Xinjiang, and the treatment of political
activists and Falun Gong cult members.
The Beijing meeting is expected to agree on a Human
Rights Technical Cooperation Program. Under this, China and
Australia?will work together to make practical improvements on
human rights.
The annual dialogue mechanism was initiated by the
Australian government in 1997 to facilitate exchanges on human
rights issues of mutual concern.
(CRI June 27, 2005)