Since 1993, the society has attended a range of international meetings on human rights. These include the 53rd, 55th and 57th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, the 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd and 44th sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women under the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and the Asia-Pacific preparatory meeting for the World Conference on Human Rights and the conference itself in Vienna. The society has also been present at numerous international symposiums on or related to human rights, such as the Kuala Lumpur symposium in 1994 that called for rethinking of the human rights question, the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the Kuala Lumpur itnernational symposium on Asian Values and governance, the Ethiopia international human rights symposium, the 1999 World Conference of NGOs in Seoul. At the Seoul conference, members of the CSHRS delegation sponsored a special workshop, called for “new values in teh new century” and spoke on NGOs and international democracy. Jointly with five other Chinese NGOs attending the conference, the CSHRS delegation also put up an exhibition of Chinese NGOs in action. In 2000, members of the society participated in the UN Millennium Forum of NGOs, UN General Assembly Special Session on Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st Century (Beijing +5), the UN General Assembly Special Session on Social Development, and the HGO Forum at Geneva 2000, and the Asia-Pacific Seminar on Human Rights, Responsibility and Development. In August 2001, members of the society attended the NGO Forum of the UN World Conference Against Racism in South Africa. In November 2001, CSHRS President Zhou Jue attended the 21st Congress of United Nations Conference of Non-government Organizations (CONGO) in Vienna. This marked the society’s debut in CONGO after it acquired its membership.

Exchange of visits has been frequent between CSHRS and its foreign counterparts. In 1997, President Zhu Muzhi visited Norway, Sweden, Italy and Spain, and talked with government officials, parliamentarians and people from various walds of life there. In Norway, he delivered a speech entitled Peace. Development and Human Rights at the Nobel ins titute. He also spoke to faculty members and students of the Carlos III University, Spain, on China’s human rights cause and development. In 2000, Zhu Muzhi, now as honorary president of the society, headed a delegation to attend a seminar on human rights in Perth, Australia and visit the country and New Zealand. The Chiense delegates held extensive dialogues with offcials and human rights NGOs in the two countries during the visit.

The society has so far received more than 30 foreign delegations, and held discussions with them on human rights. In September 1997, the society invited a delegation of the human rights group under teh Foreign Committee of the German Parliament for a tour of Beijing and Tibet. Also at its invitation, human rights experts and officials from Ukraine, Sweden and
Turkmneistan visited China respectively in October 1998, May and August in 1999. Other visitors and delegations have been from the United Nations, the United States Congress, Brazil, Britain, Norway, Morocco, Austria, and Spain. Leaders of the society have given interviews to scores of foreign news organizations, including CNN, VOA, the New York Times, BBC, the Reuters and AFP.

Meanwhile, the society has established cooperative relations with a number of academic institutions on human rigths in other countries. It has jointly sponsored seminars on issues concerning the mechanism to guarantee human rights for ethnic minority groups, human rights and international conventions, and human rights and judicial independence with institutions of Sweden, Britain and Korea.