Friday, May 01, 2009

Dialogue Newsletter Analyzes US Human Rights Policy For China

The Spring 2009 issue of Dui Hua's Dialogue newsletter has just been published. Leading off the newsletter is an article on the formation of US human rights policy toward China early in the Obama administration. It discusses complexities and questions about the human rights dialogue following remarks by US Secretary of State Clinton on working with China on major issues—the global financial crisis, among others—but not, Dui Hua contends, to the exclusion of human rights.

In addition, this Dialogue features articles on prison overcrowding in the United States and China, countries sharing more problems in this area than either side often cares to admit. The prisoner and research section has a rich mixture: response information that hints at clemency around the Beijing Olympics last year and other pieces—on counterrevolutionaries who have “resisted reform” in prison and the death of an inmate at a Yunnan detention center—that allow readers a glimpse into China’s penal system.

News About Dui Hua highlights the advocacy and dialogue work of the foundation, with rundowns on the year’s first round-the-world mission and the many connections made with foreign diplomats and other overseas visitors via Dui Hua’s office in Hong Kong.

Dui Hua's entire Spring 2009 newsletter can be read as DIALOGUE.online, only available at www.duihua.org.

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