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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
DetailsBy 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…
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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.…
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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…
DetailsPlease Tell a Friend Your are cordially invited to Visual Artists Guild. Annual Awards Dinner & Commemoration of the 26th anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre Saturday, May 30 2015 /5 P.M. In the spring of 1989, Beijing erupted with the largest spontaneous demonstrations the Peoples’ Republic of China had witnessed in its 40-year history. The pro-democracy…
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Source: Boxun TV Translated by: WRIC Jennifer Apr 21, 2015, WRIC founder Jing Zhang made a speech reminiscing a past conversation with Gao Yu, in which she told Jing that she had seriously high blood pressure and diabetes. Jing asked Gao if she needed to see the doctor, but she…
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Source: WRIC Translated by Tony Flannery Jing Zhang attended the Democracy Forum of China in Australia and gave the speech about the Chinese women’s liberation…
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