WRIC Protest with Women’s March on Washington
Graphic by WRIC Yue Zhang (AP has the copyrights to first two pictures) …
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Dear Friend, 2016 is the year China’s President Xi Jinping extended his China dream outside of China in implementing his Document No. 9 directives against constitutionality, universal values, press freedom, civil society and analysis of historical errors. It began with parades on television of the five Hong Kong booksellers who were kidnapped in 2015,…
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Calling for Human Rights at PresidentTrump’s Door
Article: WRIC Yao Cheng Translator: Jennifer Yuan On December 13, 2016, Zhuang Liehong from Wukan Village in Guangdong, China, Yao Cheng from Women’s Rights in China (WRIC) and a group of concerned friends gathered in front of Trump Tower on 5th Avenue and 56th Street, Manhattan to express…
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A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping’s new China
2 January 2017 by Tom Phillips in Chiang Mai Peter Dahlin spent 23 days in a ‘black prison’ in Beijing, where he says he was deprived of sleep and questioned with a ‘communication enhancement’ machine. Here he tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from…
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Article: WRIC Jing Zhang Translator: Cai Shiwen All images from WRIC Last Sunday (December 18, 2016) we went to see little Annie Zhang’s piano performance in Carnegie Hall. She only has started playing piano…
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Can the Two-Child Policy Improve the Human Rights Situation in China?
Author: Jing Zhang Translantor: Jennifer Yuan Women’s Rights in China Director Jing Zhang was invited to give a speech at the conference “The Prospects for Democratization in China” organized by The China Democracy Forum, New York University (NYU)…
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Human Rights Crisis, Wukan Villager in DC Calls for Aid
Source: WRIC Translation: Xu, Wen Oct 18, 2016 Washington DC On October 17, 2016, Zhuang Liehong, former Wukan Village Autonomy Committee Member, and Yao Cheng, Mainland Project Leader of Women’s Rights in China (WRIC) came to Washington DC seeking attentions…
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Source： UN Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, released a statement today in Beijing saying that while China’s achievements in alleviating extreme poverty in recent years have been “extraordinary,” that progress has been accompanied by “very high levels of inequality,” a “very weak . . . legislative framework…
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Testimony of Su Yutong Before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), Washington, D.C.
May 24,2016 My name is Su Yutong. I am a journalist and activist based in Germany. In June, 2010, after I made public the personal diary of former Chinese Premier Li Peng, my house was ransacked by the police and I was forced to leave China. In August that year, I became a journalist…
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Obstructed by Police during Nunnery Visit with Taiwanese Friend
Article by WRIC Volunteer: Li Hui Editor’s note: The Birth Planning Policy has been implemented for 30 years and has caused human tragedies unseen in history. Those hundred million newborn and stillborn innocent souls killed by this national policy cannot be forgotten. Among these souls are those that would have been grateful for being…
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