Volume 7 (No 1-2)
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ItemRethinking China’s challenge to human rights: The case of tourism development in Tibet(Global Campus Human Rights, 2023) Genoud, ChristelleIn recent years, the challenge that the Chinese Human Rights Narrative poses to the human rights regime has gained a special sense of urgency as the issue has become embedded into the larger geopolitical debate on China’s threat to the liberal world order. This article shifts the focus from the opposition between the liberal and Chinese Narratives to discrepancies between China’s Human Rights narrative and practices and challenges liberal human rights, which have been contentious from their inception. Ironically, the Chinese government does not live up to the narrative based on which it confronts liberal democracies. Through the case of tourism development in Tibet, the article illustrates that while China emphasises the right to development by promoting human rights for all individuals, the government’s implementation is anchored into violations of the cultural rights of ethnic minorities. With this perspective in mind, the study calls for a defence of human rights grounded on discrepancies between the narrative and actual practices rather than a status quo defence of the human rights regime.
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ItemUniversities’ responsibilities to respect and protect human rights transnationally: A critical discussion of collaboration and exchange between the UK and China(Global Campus Human Rights, 2023) Genoud, Christelle ; Pils, EvaEngaging with a debate on universities’ responsibilities to protect human rights amidst rising concern about the influence of autocratically governed China, we argue that the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights apply to universities, be it because universities are business enterprises, or because the principles contained in the UNGP are a fortiori relevant to universities. Drawing on the example of UK universities, we show that the UNGP are relevant for universities as “education providers and exporters” to protect academic freedom against China’s transnational repression. A review of selected current ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ law documents shows not only that to protect academic freedom, there is a need to further concretize the UNGP for the higher education sector, but also that effective protection requires corrections to universities’ overly commercialised funding structures.