The Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize and China’s Human Rights Deficit: Opportunity or Obstacle to Change?
October 26, 2010 12:30PM -
1:30 PM
Location: Room 302, Fordham Law School, 140 W. 62nd St. New York, NY
Contact: Contact: Daniel McLaughlin | dmclaughlin13@law.fordham.edu
Location: Room 302, Fordham Law School, 140 W. 62nd St. New York, NY
Contact: Contact: Daniel McLaughlin | dmclaughlin13@law.fordham.edu
Speaker: Phelim Kine
Phelim Kine, Asia Researcher with Human Rights Watch discusses human rights in China at this week’s Brown Bag Lunch.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s October 8, 2010 decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo has prompted renewed international scrutiny of China’s human rights record. Liu’s Nobel prize has reignited debate about whether the Chinese government’s move toward economic liberalization – an embrace of the global market, an opening to foreign investment and a shift from a centralized, planned economy – can and will be matched by greater respect for human rights and a loosening of the Chinese Communist Party’s 61 year monopoly on power. What does Liu Xiaobo’s plight say of China’s pervasive restrictions on dissidents, civil society, the Internet and media two years since the 2008 Beijing Olympics which the government promised would spur “the development of society, including democracy and human rights”?About the Speaker:
Phelim Kine is a China researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division. A former news wire bureau chief in Jakarta, he worked as a journalist for more than a decade in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Taiwan prior to joining Human Rights Watch in April 2007. He has written on human rights, military impunity, corruption, child sex tourism, human trafficking, and illegal land confiscation. Mr. Kine’s opinion pieces on China’s human rights challenges have appeared in media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, The Guardian, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Mr. Kine has spoken publicly on China’s human rights challenges at venues ranging from the European Parliament and the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong to a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). He is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
Phelim Kine is a China researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division. A former news wire bureau chief in Jakarta, he worked as a journalist for more than a decade in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Taiwan prior to joining Human Rights Watch in April 2007. He has written on human rights, military impunity, corruption, child sex tourism, human trafficking, and illegal land confiscation. Mr. Kine’s opinion pieces on China’s human rights challenges have appeared in media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Forbes, The Guardian, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Mr. Kine has spoken publicly on China’s human rights challenges at venues ranging from the European Parliament and the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong to a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). He is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s October 8, 2011 decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese writer and dissident Liu Xiaobo has prompted renewed international scrutiny of China’s human rights record. Liu’s Nobel prize has reignited debate about whether the Chinese government’s move toward economic liberalization – an embrace of the global market, an opening to foreign investment and a shift from a centralized, planned economy – can and will be matched by greater respect for human rights and a loosening of the Chinese Communist Party’s 61 year monopoly on power. What does Liu Xiaobo’s plight say of China’s pervasive restrictions on dissidents, civil society, the Internet and media two years since the 2008 Beijing Olympics which the government promised would spur “the development of society, including democracy and human rights”?
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