More than 20 groups from across Canada have signed a letter to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien asking him to instruct Canada's delegation to the UN Commission on Human Rights to co-sponsor the draft resolution on China. The UNCHR opened its six-week deliberations last week in Geneva and is expected to begin discussions of country resolutions tomorrow.

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March 29, 2000

The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien 

Prime Minister of Canada 

Ottawa (Ontario)

Mister Prime Minister,

In 1997, Canada and other countries entered into a bilateral human rights dialogue with the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). In doing so, they moved scrutiny of China' human rights record away from public view and into backroom discussions which have no clear objectives or markers for measuring progress. In the meantime there have been persistent and credible reports of increasing human rights ...

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