Annual Report 2004

1. Chen Kuiyuan, Speech to Fifth TAR Conference on Education, 26 October 1994

2. “A Generation in Peril. The Lives of Tibetan children under Chinese rule”, ICLT 2001

3. “A Generation in Peril. The Lives of Tibetan children under Chinese rule”, ICLT 2001

4. TCHRD Interview, 13 April 2004

5. A Report by Robert Marguand, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 August 2004.

6. Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 13, The right to education, UN Doc E/C.12/1999/10, Para. 50; 8 December 1999

7. See article 6 of the 1986 Compulsory Education Law and article 12 of the Education Law.

8. TCHRD Interview, 17 May 2004

9.Commission on Human Rights, 60th session, The right to education, Report submitted by the Special Rappoteur, Katarina Tomaševski, Addendum: Mission to China, UN Doc E/CN.4/2004/45/Add.1, Para. 36; 21 November 2003

10.China to invest 30 Billion Yuan in Basic Education“, Xinhuanet, August 2001, http://www.edu.cn/20010904/3000223.shtml;According to the Chinese Ministry of Education, “Educational departments in more developed eastern areas will be mobilized to help the central and western areas advance education by donating money and teaching instruments, and sending teaching staff to these areas through a rotation system. “

11.“Central Tibetan Administration, Education’s policy of Intend “, http://tibet.com, 19 March 2004

12.“UNICEF goes west to help children”, by Meng Yan, The China Daily, 3 September, 2004

13.Commission on Human Rights, 60th session, The right to education, Report submitted by the Special Rappoteur, Katarina Tomaševski, Addendum: Mission to China, UN Doc E/CN.4/2004/45/Add.1, Par. 17; 21 November 2003

14.TCHRD Interview, 15 December 2004

15. TCHRD Interview, 17 May 2004

16.Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment No. 13, The right to education, UN Doc E/C.12/1999/10, Para. 6; 8 December 1999

17. TCHRD Interview, 13 December 2004

18. TCHRD Interview, 13 December 2004

19.TCHRD Interview, 13 December 2004

20.Article 46 of the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China states that citizens of the People’s Republic of China have the right as well as the duty to receive education; Article 9 of the Education Law states that citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall have the right and obligation to receive education and that all citizens, regardless of ethnic group, race, sex, occupation, property status or religious belief, shall enjoy equal opportunities for education according to law.

21.Article 5 of the 1986 Compulsory Education Law states that all children who have reached the age of six shall enroll in school and receive compulsory education for the prescribed number of years, regardless of sex, nationality or race.

22. Commission on Human Rights, 60th session, The Right to Education, Report submitted by the Special Rappoteur, Katarina Tomaševski, Addendum, Mission to China, UN Doc E/CN.4/2004/45/Add.1, Para. 17; 21 November 2003.

23.Commission on Human Rights, 60th session, The Right to Education, Report submitted by the Special Rappoteur, Katarina Tomaševski, Addendum, Mission to China, UN Doc E/CN.4/2004/45/Add.1, Para. 17; 21 November 2003.

24.TCHRD Interview, 25 April 2004

25.Committee on the Rights of the Child, 12th Session, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child: China; UN Doc CRC/C/15/Add.56, Para. 19; 7 June 1996

26.Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 34 th Session; Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Initial report submitted by the People’s Republic of China; UN Doc E/1990/5/Add.59, Par.a 218; 4 March 2004.

27.Commentary to the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, by Asbjørn Eide; UN Doc E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.5/2001/2, Para. 21, 2 April 2001.