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"China's Global Rise: Human Rights in China"
Part
Three of a five-part series
A Two-Day
Conference
April 10-11, 2006
The
Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership
at Furman University in cooperation with the Asian Studies Department
presented Part Three of China's Global Rise, a five-part series
of lectures and conferences on China's transformations and current
challenges.
Part-three
addressed the challenge of human rights in China. Despite
China's political liberalization, human rights' abuses clearly still
occur all too frequently. The United States' State Department regularly
criticizes China's human rights record and reports from dissidents
fleeing the People's Liberation Army (PRC) paint a grim picture
of continuing oppression, particularly in Tibet, against underground
Church followers, and against those willing to speak out against
the Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party argues that the
United States is imposing a double standard and that China is making
important improvements in the human rights field.
The program opened Monday, April 10 at 4:00 p.m. in Younts Conference
Center, Furman University with an opening address by Han Dongfang,
Director of China Labour Bulletin, and Wang Dan, former Tiananmen
Square student leader, titled "Rule of Law and Civil Society:
Effective Tools for Promoting Human Rights in China."
Monday evening at 8:00 p.m., Lorne Craner, President of the International
Republican Institute and former Assistant Secretary for Democracy,
Human Rights and Labor, delivered his keynote address on "The
U.S. and Human Rights in China." Click
here if you would like to read his complete address.
On Tuesday,
April 11 at 4 p.m., John Kamm, Director of the Dui Hau Foundation,
and Nicolas Becquelin, Human Rights Watch's Hong Kong-based China
researcher, presented their views on "Promoting Human Rights
in China: What Role can the International Community Play?"
For more complete information about the participants or the schedule
of events, click below.
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