Winners Named for the 2023 Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders: Xu Qin and Peng Lifa

Winners Named for the 2023 Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders: Xu Qin and Peng Lifa

March 14, 2023       Comments Off on Winners Named for the 2023 Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders: Xu Qin and Peng Lifa

 

Human rights defenders Xu Qin and Peng Lifa are recipients of the Ninth Annual Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders. The decision recognizes Xu Qin’s long-standing civil society activism to promote protection of human rights in China, and the brave civil disobedience by Peng Lifa to spur on (read more…)

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<strong>Chinese Authorities Must Release “Blank Paper” Protesters and Allow Free Expression on COVID-19 Pandemic</strong>

Chinese Authorities Must Release “Blank Paper” Protesters and Allow Free Expression on COVID-19 Pandemic

March 8, 2023       Comments Off on Chinese Authorities Must Release “Blank Paper” Protesters and Allow Free Expression on COVID-19 Pandemic

 

The following 25 organizations call on the Chinese government to immediately and unconditionally release Cao Zhixin, Li Siqi, Li Yuanjing, and Zhai Dengrui and all other “blank paper” protesters, and to end its crackdown on free expression around the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Joint Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Center Human Rights and Plights of Political Prisoners during Upcoming Visit to China

January 31, 2023       Comments Off on Joint Letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken: Center Human Rights and Plights of Political Prisoners during Upcoming Visit to China

 

Washington, D.C. (Jan. 31, 2023) — Coalition of U.S.-based civil society organizations representing communities facing oppression of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) issue a joint letter to Secretary of State Blinken ahead of his upcoming visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The coalition calls for the Secretary to (read more…)

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<strong>China: Free All “Blank Paper” Protestors</strong>

China: Free All “Blank Paper” Protestors

January 20, 2023       Comments Off on China: Free All “Blank Paper” Protestors

 

CHRD urges the United Nations human rights experts to take urgent action, calling on the Chinese government to release all of the “Blank Paper” movement participants and remind the government of its human rights obligations.

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Over 100 Global Rights Groups Call for the Immediate Release of Mongolian writer and activist Munkhbayar Chuluundorj

January 12, 2023       Comments Off on Over 100 Global Rights Groups Call for the Immediate Release of Mongolian writer and activist Munkhbayar Chuluundorj

 

World leaders urged to jointly press for all charges against him to be dropped and for him to be freed We urge the Mongolian government to immediately release Mr. Munkhbayar Chuluundorj who was arbitrarily arrested in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, by the General Intelligence Agency (GIA) of Mongolia on February 17, 2022. (read more…)

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<strong>Human Rights Day 2022 in China: Reasons for Hope </strong>

Human Rights Day 2022 in China: Reasons for Hope 

December 9, 2022       Comments Off on Human Rights Day 2022 in China: Reasons for Hope 

 

On this International Human Rights Day, stakeholders in the international human rights community should appreciate that the protestors are showing us that not all hope is lost for a democratic China, where human rights and rule of law will be respected.

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<strong>2022年国际人权日：希望之光</strong>

2022年国际人权日：希望之光

December 9, 2022       Comments Off on 2022年国际人权日：希望之光

 

在12月10日国际人权日之际，我们为人权行动者的勇气和胆量倍感振奋，并再次呼吁中国政府停止违反自己承诺的保护人权的义务，释放那些因行使人权而被拘禁的人。我们敦促国际社会保持希望，继续支持站在最前沿的维权者。

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Joint Statement: Respect Freedoms of Expression, Press and Assembly in China – Stop violent crackdown and arrests of peaceful protesters

Joint Statement: Respect Freedoms of Expression, Press and Assembly in China – Stop violent crackdown and arrests of peaceful protesters

December 7, 2022       Comments Off on Joint Statement: Respect Freedoms of Expression, Press and Assembly in China – Stop violent crackdown and arrests of peaceful protesters

 

We, the undersigned, call on the Chinese government to strictly abide by its obligations under the Chinese Constitution and the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, as well as its commitment as a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political (read more…)

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<strong>China Must End Reprisals against Protestors, Investigate Urumqi Fire, Free Detainees </strong>

China Must End Reprisals against Protestors, Investigate Urumqi Fire, Free Detainees 

December 2, 2022       Comments Off on China Must End Reprisals against Protestors, Investigate Urumqi Fire, Free Detainees 

 

We at CHRD are seriously concerned that detained protestors are at high risk of being forcibly disappeared and subjected to torture and deprivation of due process rights.

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中国政府须结束对抗议者的报复，调查乌鲁木齐火灾，释放被拘留者

中国政府须结束对抗议者的报复，调查乌鲁木齐火灾，释放被拘留者

December 2, 2022       Comments Off on 中国政府须结束对抗议者的报复，调查乌鲁木齐火灾，释放被拘留者

 

中国警方正在对中国各地的街头抗议者进行系统性报复。全国各地过去几天的集会示威，呼吁结束不人道的“清零政策”、哀悼11月24日乌鲁木齐公寓火灾受害者以及要求政治变革。

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The Enduring Corporate Entrenchment in China

The Enduring Corporate Entrenchment in China

November 17, 2022       Comments Off on The Enduring Corporate Entrenchment in China

 

A recent report by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai found that 30 percent of U.S. companies plan to increase their investments in China.

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China: End ideological “Zero COVID” and put human life and dignity first 

China: End ideological “Zero COVID” and put human life and dignity first 

November 16, 2022       Comments Off on China: End ideological “Zero COVID” and put human life and dignity first 

 

CHRD urges the Chinese government to scrap any unnecessarily burdensome and harmful measures and immediately end the “Zero COVID” policy.

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