Source: WRIC Live Coverage by WRIC Volunteer Yujun Zhang on Sept. 28, 2015 Since becoming President of China, Xi Jinping has cruelly oppressed NGOs, including feminist organizations. A large number of NGO offices have been “investigated” and have lost documents due to confiscation. Many were closed down. A group of feminists, including The Five Sisters,…
Live Coverage by WRIC Volunteer Yujun Zhang on Sept. 28, 2015 Since becoming President of China, Xi Jinping has cruelly oppressed NGOs, including feminist organizations. A large number of NGO offices have been “investigated” and have lost documents due to confiscation. Many were closed down. A group of feminists, including The Five Sisters, have…
by Ann Lau, Chair, Visual Artists Guild This past Wednesday, the CEOs of Facebook, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, AMD, Qualcomm, Intel, Linkedln, AME Cloud Ventures, AirBnB and China’s top tech giants came together in Seattle to meet with China’s president Xi Jinping. Noticeably missing is Google which moved its servers to Hong Kong in…
By Defense Attorneys for the Feminist Five in China Sept 23, 2015 The Honorable UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and the Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, We are a group…
By WRIC 26th August, 2015 Since the crackdowns began on 9th July, 2015, 17 human rights lawyers, lawyers’ assistants and law firm staff have remained in detention. Although “verdict” has been given by CCTV and the state media that these people are “guilty of defending human…
By WRIC Volunteer: Alexandra Khoo 10/20/ 2014 Fujian is China’s reform frontier but it is also home to the “Child Bride Village”; a shocking, regretful yet long overlooked phenomenon that is incompatible with the province’s high civility. Fujian Law Society’s Research head Lin Dan thinks that Ping Yang village’s illicit adoption of “child brides”…
Article by WRIC Hui Li Translator by Anna Li July 23, 2015 On August 6, 2011, Yao Cheng(Tan…
By Shao Yang Yun As a baby at the age of a week old, I came in the orphanage in the city of Shao Yang (province of Hunan) . This was happening in the month December 2003. They called me Shao Yang Yun, in short Yun Yun.This was a beautiful name but not from my…
May 31, 2015 Jing Zhang gave a thanks speech Today, on behalf of Women’s Rights in China, I accept the honor of an award from the American Visual Artists Guild. Right now two different emotions are tangled up in my heart. On the one hand, I feel encouraged and happy because I’ve won an award.…
Women’s Rights in China(WRIC) volunteer, Sandra Lam who represents Su Changlan, thanks Visual Artists Guild for giving an award to Su. “Honorable ladies and gentlemen, My name is Sandra Lam, and I have been a volunteer with WRIC since it was founded in New York. Today I am here on behalf of WRIC’s most outstanding…