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Growing wealth disparities in China attracting government attention – UN report

16 December 2005
China’s wealth gap between urban and rural communities is among the highest in the world, but a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report released today finds the Government is coming to grips with the widening disparities that threaten the country’s stability.
MV Blue Dream in Shenzhen, China

UN food agency sees partnership with China as key tool in war on global hunger

15 December 2005
A strong partnership between the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency and China, and the world’s most populous country, could have enormous bearing on the fight against global hunger, the agency’s chief said today.

UN environment agency team examines fallout from China’s chemical plant blast

13 December 2005
A four-member team from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is on a fact-finding trip to northeastern China to see firsthand the problems caused by the pollution released last month in a chemical plant explosion there.
Manfred Nowak

Torture, though on decline, remains widespread in China, UN expert reports

2 December 2005
Torture, though on the decline, particularly in urban areas, remains widespread in China, and Government officials have increasingly recognized the problem and undertaken a number of measures to tackle it, the independent United Nations human rights expert on the issue said today.

China: UN discusses sending disaster management team to site of toxic spill

30 November 2005
Representatives of several United Nations agencies are discussing with the Chinese authorities a suitable date for a UN disaster management team to visit contaminated area of the Songhua River following a large explosion at a petro-chemical plant in China's Jilin Province earlier this month, a UN spokesman said today.

UN environmental team on standby to help China, Russia in river pollution

25 November 2005
A United Nations environmental team is on standby to help both Chinese and Russian authorities, if requested, following the contamination of the Songhua River after a large explosion at a petro-chemical plant in China's Jilin Province earlier this month.
Manfred Nowak

UN expert on torture and cruel punishment visits China

21 November 2005
The independent United Nations human rights expert on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment began a 12-day visit to China today, during which he will meet with Government officials and representatives of civil society and visit detention facilities.

Annan congratulates China on its second space mission

17 October 2005
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed China for safely and successfully launching its second mission into space.
Louise Arbour briefs journalists

China: UN rights chief highlights both progress and concerns at end of visit

2 September 2005
The United Nations human rights chief said today a rapidly changing China had great potential in the area of human rights but she also raised a number of concerns with leading officials, including the system known as re-education through labour and the extensive use of the death penalty.

UN, China agree to cooperate on civil and political rights program

31 August 2005
The United Nations human rights office today said that it and China signed a memorandum of understanding designed to help that country implement recommendations on economic, social and cultural rights and at facilitating its ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.