CUSIB urges BBG not to abandon most vulnerable citizens in China and Tibet, not to reduce RFA budgets

Ann Noonan made her appeal at an open BBG board meeting in Washington, D.C. on February 26, 2016.

China's New Human Rights White Paper - A Study In Misdirection and Falsehood

On June 8th the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published a white paper analyzing China’s progress on human rights in 2014. The authorship would have made the paper’s reliability inherently dubious, even if the intent had been to genuinely analyze China’s 2014 human rights record.

Harry Wu and the Laogai Research Foudnation Join Others in Urging Dr. Geoffrey W. Marcy to Press China on Human Rights

Harry Wu and The Laogai Research Foundation joined other Chinese human rights activists and organizations in urging Dr. Geoffrey W. Marcy, a professor of astronomy at the University of California-Berkeley and Nobel Prize nominee, to support Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and other Chinese political prisoners by encouraging fellow scientists to acknowledge and work to improve the bleak human rights situation in China. The Guardian recently quoted Dr. Marcy criticizing existing barriers to cooperating with Chinese government scientists. Please see below for the open letter to Dr.

Human Rights

Tibetan Self-Immolations: Motives Behind the Tragic Protests

In 1949, the newly established Communist China sent troops into their neighboring country, Tibet, under the guise of wishing to aid in development and improve the living standards in the secluded country.

The Death Penalty in China as a State Sponsored Human Rights Abuse

In the past couple of decades, there has been a global shift away from use of the death penalty.¹ Many nations around the world are beginning to realize that the death penalty is not only an outdated means of punishment, but also a violation of international human rights standards. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for example, states that individuals may not be deprived of life. Capital punishment appears to directly violate this provision.

Original Documents at the Laogai Museum Confirming Abuses

Original Documents on Display at the Laogai Museum Confirming Human Rights Abuses Committed by the Chinese Communist Party

by Laogai Research Foundation

On February 7, 2013, the newly constructed Archives Room at the renowned Laogai Museum was officially opened to visitors. The room serves as another unique way in which the public can gain in-depth knowledge of the various kinds of crimes against humanity committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the last six decades.

Laogai Museum: A Window into China’s Human Rights Disaster