Sponsored by scholars and experts concerned with human rights at nine Beijing-based schools of higher learning and research institutes, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the All-China Women’s Federation, the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) was founded in January 1993. It is the largest academic organization specializing in human rights studies in China, and a non-goernment organization that is in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

A non-profit organization, CSHRS relies on finacial aid and donations to maintain its operations.

OBJECTIVE:The society devotes itself to research of the theories, history and current conditions of human rights, study of theoretical and practical issues concerning the development of human rights knowledge, and international exchanges in the human rights arena. It aims at promoting mutual understandings between the Chineses people and people of the world on the question of human rights, and helps China and the world ensure a sound development of the human rigths cause.