Southern Weekend, 2009-04-13
The State Council Public Information Office released China's first ever “National Human Rights Action Plan 2009-2010,” outlining broad government goals for improving and guaranteeing “human rights.” The plan includes spurring urban employment and transferring agricultural workers into other industries, expanding health care coverage to over 90% of the population, improving education—with the specific goal of decreasing youth illiteracy to below 4%y—and environmental recycling, and making public an accurate list of the dead and missing from last year's Sichuan earthquake. In criminal justice matters, it calls for increased diligence in stopping police torture, illegal detention and prison violence, as well as improving death sentence reviews and making trial and court procedures completely public.
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