President Ma Huide led a delegation of the China Society for Human Rights Studies to Berlin, Germany, to participate in the “2024-Chinese-European Symposium on Human Rights”

On October 22, 2024, “2024 China-Europe Human Rights Seminar” was held in Berlin, Germany. More than 60 experts and scholars in the field of human rights, UN special rapporteurs, diplomats, and representatives of non-governmen organizations from 16 countries discussed and exchanged views on the topic of “Emerging Rights: Chinese and European Perspectives”.

The seminar was opened by Prof. Ma Huaide, President of China University of Political Science and Law and Vice President of China Society for Human Rights Studies, and centered on the safeguarding of emerging rights and how to deal with the challenges of emerging rights to the current global human rights governance system. Zeng Fanhua, Minister of the Chinese Embassy in Germany, also delivered a speech, emphasizing the potential for Sino-European cooperation on the protection of emerging rights.

After the speeches of the guests, a dozen Chinese and foreign guests were making keynote speeches at the conference, expressing their views and opinions on the challenges to human rights posed by emerging rights and the programs for the protection of emerging rights.

In the afternoon, two parallel forums were held on topics related to economic equality and social rights, digital technology and human rights, and climate change and human rights. Prof. Zhang Wei, Executive Vice Dean of the Institution for Human Rights of our university, was invited to moderate the parallel forum on human rights and climate change.

Founded in 2015, China-EU Human Rights Symposium is an important institutionalized academic platform for exchanges and cooperation between China and Europe in the field of human rights, and has played an important role in reaching a consensus on human rights between China and Europe and building a bridge of co-prosperity of civilizations, and has been held for eight times before. This year's symposium was co-sponsored by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and Central South University, organized by the Human Rights Center of Central South University and the German Chinese Cultural Foundation, and co-organized by the University Münster and the International Philosophical Society of Germany. The seminar was reported by CCTV news broadcast, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, China News Agency and other central media.