Forum highlights nation's contribution to human rights

China and South-South cooperation have made significant, substantial contribution to the development of global human rights undertakings in recent years, said an official from Guyana at the two-day South-South Human Rights Forum in Beijing that concluded on Friday.

Delegates and scholars from more than 70 countries and organizations attended the forum, which discussed the promotion of human rights in developing countries and the world. South-South cooperation has been initiated, organized and managed by developing countries with the aim of promoting shared development at bilateral, multilateral, regional and interregional levels.

Wang Xigen, executive dean of the Institute of Human Rights at Wuhan University, said the right to development is an original contribution by countries of the South to human rights and is the great achievement of South-South cooperation in human rights. He emphasized that South-South cooperation is one of the fundamental ways that developing countries can realize the right to development.