STORY: Experts, scholars discuss BRI contributions to global human rights cause in Geneva
DATELINE: Sept. 20, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:32
LOCATION: GENEVA, Switzerland
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the symposium 
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZUO FENG, Vice chairman and secretary-general, China Foundation for Human Rights Development
3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): HU BILIANG, Executive dean of the Belt and Road School at Beijing Normal University
4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ZHANG AINING, Director of the Human Rights Studies Center in China Foreign Affairs University

STORYLINE:

A symposium focusing on the progress of the human rights cause in countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation was held in Geneva on Tuesday.
   
At the symposium, human rights experts and scholars from China and other countries exchanged their views on the contributions of the BRI cooperation to global development and human rights progress.
   
SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZUO FENG, Vice chairman and secretary-general, China Foundation for Human Rights Development
"BRI has injected strong impetus into the development of participating countries, created many jobs, and helped tens of thousands of people get out of poverty. It is conducive to resolving development imbalance, governance difficulties, digital divide, distribution gap, and other issues, allowing more countries and people to share the benefits of development, and better protecting and promoting human rights."
  
SOUNDBITE 2 (English): HU BILIANG, Executive dean of the Belt and Road School at Beijing Normal University
"I got every year more than 100 students from more than 90 countries in my school, they are all from Belt and Road countries, so they get better educated. They get new job opportunities, they get well-educated, their income has been increased, poverty has been reduced. So this is directly related to human rights."
   
SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ZHANG AINING, Director of the Human Rights Studies Center at China Foreign Affairs University
"The BRI has provided a fine example in practice for the progress of the world's human rights cause, namely, promoting development through cooperation and promoting human rights through development."
  
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Geneva, Switzerland.
(XHTV)