HRIC makes regular submissions to UN Special Procedures that includes Special Rapporteurs or Independent Experts, and Working Groups—with mandates to report and monitor human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. HRIC’s submissions highlight concerning developments that represent serious deterioration in fundamental rights in mainland China and the Hong Kong SAR, including issues relating to the independence of judges and lawyers; torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, the promotion and protection of freedom of opinion and expression, and the right to education and academic freedom.
