International perspective

Hong Kong: A High-Stakes Gamble Xi Jinping Is Destined to Make

tw — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 22:53:32 +0000

September 3, 2019

Hong Kong: A High-Stakes Gamble Xi Jinping Is Destined to Make

Current affairs

The almost three-month-long struggle of the people of Hong Kong has become the biggest crisis that Xi Jinping has faced since he took office. Since the beginning of the year, the highest authorities in Beijing have been aware that China's overall situation is far from favorable, as a multitude of...

Gao Wenqian

State Sovereignty Cannot Be Legitimately Invoked to Attack the Independence of UN Experts and Undermine Established Terms of Reference for Fact-finding Missions

tw — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 21:30:16 +0000

June 9, 2017

State Sovereignty Cannot Be Legitimately Invoked to Attack the Independence of UN Experts and Undermine Established Terms of Reference for Fact-finding Missions

Statement

International Human Rights

FIDH-HRIC Statement Human Rights Council 35th Session Item 3: Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty Delivered by Sharon Hom, June 8, 2017 Thank you, Mr. President, This statement is delivered by FIDH together with its member organization Human Rights in China. We...

“Values and Strategic Narratives in International Human Rights”

tw — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 18:05:30 +0000

August 11, 2016

“Values and Strategic Narratives in International Human Rights”

China Rights Forum

Citizen Participation

“Either/or ways of framing policy choices limit our strategic imagination. . . . We need to move away from traditional binary computing thinking and into the quantum space where both particle and wave can exist simultaneously and the possibilities are infinite.” —Sharon Hom, HRIC Executive Director