Ms. ZHU XIAOQING

Research Fellow, Vice-director of the Department of Public International Law, Center for International Law Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Councilor of China Society for Human Rights Studies. Prof. Zhu’s main research areas are basic theories of international law, treaty law, international human rights law and European human rights law. Publications include European Protection Mechanism for Human Rights (author, 2003), International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Its Implementing Mechanism (co-author, 2003), Relations between International Treaties and Domestic Law (editor and co-author, 2000) and articles in Chinese and English. Translated works include Human Rights and International Relations (co-translator, 1998), and Women and International Human Rights Law (co-translator, 2007). 

Abstract of Paper “ The Development of International Human Rights Mechanism since the Adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights ” 

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an epoch-making document on rights. It declares that everyone should enjoy complete human rights: citizens’ rights, political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights. The declaration, though not legal binding, is undoubtedly the basis for the United Nations and regional human rights protection mechanisms, as well as the common objective all countries are still striving to achieve. Meanwhile, the human rights standards defined in the declaration are changing with time. The document has therefore laid a foundation for the development of international human rights protection mechanisms consisting of international human rights treaties and their measures for implementation.