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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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”…
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Article by WRIC Hui Li Translator by Anna Li July 23, 2015 On August 6, 2011, Yao Cheng(Tan…
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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…
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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: 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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Women’s Rights in China Mar 23, 2015 Women’s Rights in China’s staff Jennifer Yuan and Jing Zhang with another feminists March 23, 2015, holding the sign to support the release of five anti-sexual harassments activists in the front of UN . (Photos by WRIC) Women’s Rights in China requests the Beijing government to immediately release the five…
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