China has made remarkable achievements in human rights and contributed its wisdom and solutions to global human rights governance, promoting the world’s human rights cause, said heads of social organisations, experts and scholars from countries including China, the United Kingdom (UK), France, Japan, Pakistan, Laos, and Venezuela. They expressed such views at online side events at the 48^th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which were held by social organisations and human rights research institutes including China Society for Human Rights Studies and China NGO Network for International Exchanges (CNIE).

Through institutional and policy guarantees, China ensures that ethnic minority citizens enjoy rights to equality and freedom and to economic, social and cultural services. China helps all ethnic minority areas accelerate their economic and cultural development, according to attendees at these side events.

By showing the realities of the sound economic and social development in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, participants in these side events have debunked the false allegations against the region made by a handful of Western countries who have attempted to smear China.