Vincent Kolo, chinaworker.info Three Chinese activists have been detained and face criminal charges after an undercover investigation of working conditions at two factories belonging to the Huajian Group, a supplier of shoes for the Ivanka Trump fashion label. The arrests came just weeks after the brand owned by the US president’s…
DetailsWRIC HKFP A Guangxi court has applied for the verdict for women’s rights activist Su Changlan to be deferred for the fourth time, her lawyer has said. Su was detained in October 2014 after making comments on social media in support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Occupy movement. She previously worked as a volunteer for…
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DetailsDear 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,…
DetailsArticle: 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…
Details2 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…
DetailsArticle: 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…
DetailsAuthor: 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)…
DetailsSource: 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…
DetailsSource： 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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