[{"bbox": [97, 153, 242, 177], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Human Rights"}, {"bbox": [95, 179, 1132, 470], "category": "Text", "text": "Respect for human rights is a fundamental value of the European Union. The supply chain of critical raw materials is especially prone to human rights abuses in production and extraction. This is problematic regarding an actor like China, which considers human rights to be a country's \"internal affairs\" rather than a legitimate concern of the international community. Furthermore, China promotes a state-centric and relativist conception of human rights \"with Chinese characteristics\", according to which stability, harmony, subsistence and economic development take precedence over human rights, especially civil and political rights. As investments in critical raw materials occur often in developing countries with weak governing systems, non-democratic systems and with low economic development, human rights discriminations such as forced child labour for the extraction of raw materials, are prone to occur. The creation of an observatory on Chinese overseas investments in critical raw materials will also present the opportunity to observe, report and create awareness of potential human rights abuses regarding the production and extraction of critical raw materials."}, {"bbox": [97, 502, 193, 527], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disability"}, {"bbox": [97, 529, 1116, 582], "category": "Text", "text": "As per OECD Disability DAC codes identified in section 1.1, this action is labelled as D0. This implies that the action does not propose any activity concerning any disability, nor contribute to this DAC code."}, {"bbox": [97, 614, 341, 639], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Reduction of inequalities"}, {"bbox": [97, 641, 1132, 773], "category": "Text", "text": "As investments in critical raw materials often occur in developing countries, which have often a huge amount of existing inequalities, the action represents an opportunity to create awareness of such inequalities, if related for example to raw materials extraction or production. This action will contribute to the EU's objective to further develop strategic partnerships, working with reliable partners to promote their own economic development in a sustainable manner, including through sustainable value chains locally."}, {"bbox": [97, 799, 208, 824], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Democracy"}, {"bbox": [97, 826, 1132, 904], "category": "Text", "text": "All activities, including policy dialogue with the Chinese Government, will aim to strengthen the inclusiveness of policy dialogues as well as to emphasize the importance of the rule of law, good governance, transparency and anti-corruption."}, {"bbox": [97, 937, 484, 962], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Conflict sensitivity, peace and resilience"}, {"bbox": [97, 964, 1132, 1017], "category": "Text", "text": "Monitoring the promotion of human rights, fundamental freedoms, peace and security both in China and in partner countries will be considered as appropriate."}, {"bbox": [97, 1048, 334, 1072], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Disaster Risk Reduction"}, {"bbox": [97, 1074, 1132, 1179], "category": "Text", "text": "Critical raw materials are at the centre of the decarbonisation of economies. Creating an observatory on Chinese overseas investments in critical raw materials will provide the EU with data and evidence-based analysis which can inform EU policy-making on the green transition. Decarbonisation efforts could help to reduce extreme weather and climate events and, thus, this action can indirectly contribute to the reduction of climate disasters."}, {"bbox": [97, 1212, 408, 1236], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## Other considerations if relevant"}, {"bbox": [97, 1240, 139, 1261], "category": "Text", "text": "N/A"}, {"bbox": [85, 1280, 422, 1306], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.4 Risks and Lessons Learnt"}, {"bbox": [82, 1322, 1167, 1623], "category": "Table", "text": "<table><thead><tr><td>Category</td><td>Risks</td><td>Likelihood (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Impact (High/ Medium/ Low)</td><td>Mitigating measures</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Political risk</td><td>Possible pressure from China's authorities on persons and entities</td><td>M</td><td>M</td><td>The EU will take appropriate measures to ensure confidentiality on the project, of the persons and entities involved and</td></tr></tbody></table>"}, {"bbox": [1037, 1681, 1142, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 17"}]