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CRF 2014, no. 2 - Steadfast in the Storm
This issue, "Steadfast in the Storm: Hong Kong Towards 2017 and Beyond," is on the 2014 mass movement in Hong Kong to preserve fundamental rights and fight for genuine universal suffrage...
2014
Hong Kong’s Civil Disobedience against “Mainlandization”
[Translation by Human Rights in China] During the spectacular Occupy Wall Street movement, there was never any talk of it being manipulated by “foreign forces.” When the even more powerful Sunflower Movement in Taiwan took place—during which radical students not only occupied the Legislative Yuan,...
January 28, 2015
China Rights Forum
Hong Kong: “It’s Just the Beginning”
Today, Hong Kong police cleared out the Admiralty site of a 74-day peaceful mass civil disobedience movement pressing for genuine universal suffrage. But instead of the closing of a troubling political chapter, hoped for by both the local and central governments, the Umbrella Movement in fact was “...
December 11, 2014
Statement
To Welcome Glorious Times
To Welcome Glorious Times To welcome glorious times Hold tight to freedom in the wind and rain After the unsettling struggle We can change the future Freedom Key Yellow Ribbon/Umbrella/Lion Rock Hong Kong Loves Shopping
December 8, 2014
Democracy as I Understand It——To Hong Kong’s Occupy Central Movement
Excerpted from the Chinese original [Translation by Human Rights in China] “Democracy” may be more than just one-person, one-vote to elect the top leaders. What is more important is equality and mutual respect. That is, treat everyone—and their opinions—equally and with respect. Every one of us has...
December 1, 2014
Peter Gabriel, Pussy Riot & More Project Photos, Messages of Support to Hong Kong Demonstrators
As Hong Kong protesters stand up to recent heavy handed police tactics in clearing sections of the Mong Kok Occupy site, Peter Gabriel, Pussy Riot, Iron & Wine, and others have sent photos and messages of support which are being projected on the Lennon Wall in the Admiralty District of downtown...
January 28, 2015
Press Release
To Myself of September 28
[English Translation by HRIC] Dear Kitty Ho of September 28, If I told you how I’ve spent this past month and what I’ve heard, you would tell me I am a liar. . . . Ever since you were little, you’ve been scared of crowds and death. That was why you didn’t try to get into Admiralty in Central, but...
January 28, 2015
China Rights Forum
Hong Kong: Voices of the People

Updated: December 8, 2014

Essays and Other Expressions

Human Rights in China invites the people of Hong Kong who have experienced—participated in or observed—the Umbrella Movement to send us short personal essays, poetry, journal entries, short video messages, or photographs.

The submissions will be posted in a special “Hong Kong: Voices of the People” section of our website.

At UN, China Faced Tough Questions on Women’s Rights, Gets Poor Grade for Universal Suffrage for Hong Kong
Today in Geneva, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women posed hard-hitting questions on the progress of women’s rights in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao. In a comprehensive exchange with the Chinese delegation, the independent experts on the Committee raised a...
October 23, 2014
Press Release

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