China S Human Rights Lawyers

Author : Eva Pils
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134450619

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China's Human Rights Lawyers by Eva Pils Pdf

This book offers a unique insight into the role of human rights lawyers in Chinese law and politics. In her extensive account, Eva Pils shows how these practitioners are important as legal advocates for victims of injustice and how bureaucratic systems of control operate to subdue and marginalise them. The book also discusses how human rights lawyers and the social forces they work for and with challenge the system. In conditions where organised political opposition is prohibited, rights lawyers have begun to articulate and coordinate demands for legal and political change. Drawing on hundreds of anonymised conversations, the book analyses in detail human rights lawyers’ legal advocacy in the face of severe institutional limitations and their experiences of repression at the hands of the police and state security apparatus, along with the intellectual, political and moral resources lawyers draw upon to survive and resist. Key concerns include the interaction between the lawyers and their bureaucratic, professional and social environments and the forms and long term political impact of resistance. In addressing these issues, Pils offers a rare evaluative perspective on China’s legal and political system, and proposes new ways to assess domestic advocacy’s relationship with international human rights and rule of law promotion. This book will be of great interest and use to students and scholars of law, Chinese studies, socio-legal studies, political studies, international relations, and sociology. It is also of direct value to people working in the fields of human rights advocacy, law, politics, international relations, and journalism.

Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754081258356

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China's Human Rights Lawyers by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China Pdf

Author : Timothy A. Gelatt,Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061112228

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Criminal Justice with Chinese Characteristics by Timothy A. Gelatt,Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Congressional-executive Commission on China
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1477584765

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China's Human Rights Lawyers: Current Challenges and Prospects by Congressional-executive Commission on China Pdf

At this roundtable our distinguished panel will discuss China's human rights lawyers and their role in advancing the rule of law in China. We will examine the relationship between these lawyers, the Chinese government, and the Communist Party, and explore why Chinese authorities recently have stripped some prominent rights lawyers of their lawyers' licenses. We will delve into documented incidents of increased harassment of human rights lawyers in China, and ask what the future now holds for them, and also ask what their treatment suggests about the development of the rule of law in China more generally.

Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D034050151

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Current Conditions for Human Rights Defenders and Lawyers in China, and Implications for U.S. Policy by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China Pdf

Author : Eva Pils
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509500734

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Human Rights in China by Eva Pils Pdf

How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this contentious area, examining human rights as a set of social practices. Drawing on a wide range of resources including years of interaction with Chinese human rights defenders, Pils discusses what gives rise to systematic human rights violations, what institutional avenues of protection are available, and how social practices of human rights defence have evolved. Three central areas are addressed: liberty and integrity of the person; freedom of thought and expression; and inequality and socio-economic rights. Pils argues that the Party-State system is inherently opposed to human rights principles in all these areas, and that – contributing to a global trend – it is becoming more repressive. Yet, despite authoritarianism's lengthening shadows, China’s human rights movement has so far proved resourceful and resilient. The trajectories discussed here will continue to shape the struggle for human rights in China and beyond its borders.

Author : Stacy Mosher,Patrick Poon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9881881315

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A Sword and a Shield by Stacy Mosher,Patrick Poon Pdf

Author : Randall P. Peerenboom,Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061796855

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Lawyers in China by Randall P. Peerenboom,Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Lee R. Massingdale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215291316

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Human Rights in China by Lee R. Massingdale Pdf

In the past two decades, human rights has been a principal area of U.S. concern regarding the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with security and bilateral trade. Some U.S. leaders argue that U.S. policies of engagement with China, particularly since granting the PRC normal trade relations status in 2000, have helped to accelerate economic and social change and build social and legal foundations for human rights progress in the PRC. Others contend that U.S. engagement has failed not only to produce meaningful political reform but also to set any real change in motion. This book analyses China's mixed human rights record of the past several years -- major human rights problems, new human rights legislation, and the development of civil society, legal awareness, and social activism.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Citizen suits (Civil procedure)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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"A Great Danger for Lawyers" by Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

International standards for lawyers. -- The legal profession: a general lack of independence. -- Mass cases and the rights protection movement. Box: Mass incidents on the rise (April 2005-November 2006). -- The New Guiding Opinions. -- A. Tightening of control by the judicial bureaus and other governmental departments -- B. Requiring lawyers to share confidential information with the authorities -- C. Strengthening of controls exercised by the lawyers associations -- D. Introduction of specific requirements for accepting cases -- E. Greater restrictions on working with petitioners -- F. Discouraging contacts with media and foreign organizations -- G. Requiring lawyers to take cases based on their possible effect on "stability"--H. Intimidating sanctions. -- Promulgation of local versions of the Guiding Opinions. -- Lawyers' reactions to the new restrictions and the government's response. Lawyers' initial reactions - Government response. -- Recommendations. To the Chinese government - To the United Nations - To the international law community. -- Acknowledgments. -- Appendix I: Guiding Opinions of the All-China Lawyers Association on Lawyers Handling Mass Cases. -- Appendix II: Glossary of Chinese terms.

Author : Titus Chen,Dingding Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317752714

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International Engagement in China's Human Rights by Titus Chen,Dingding Chen Pdf

Since the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989 there has been increasing international pressure on China to improve its approach to human rights, whilst at the same time the Chinese government has itself realised that it needs to improve its approach, and has indeed done much to implement improvements. This book explores systematically the international engagement in human rights in China and assesses the impact of such foreign involvement. It looks at particular areas including criminal justice, labour, and religious freedom, considers the processes by which international pressure is brought to bear and the processes by which improvements are implemented in China, and concludes that, whilst China’s human rights record has improved more than many people realise, further improvements are still needed.

Author : Na Jiang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642449024

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China and International Human Rights by Na Jiang Pdf

This book is designed to introduce law students, legal actors and human rights activists, particularly participants in human rights dialogues with China, to the process and reality of a newly confident China’s participation in the international human rights system, albeit with inherent challenges. From an international and comparative perspective, one of the key findings of the author's research is that progress towards human rights depends more on judges than on legislators. Chinese legislators have enacted a series of reforms in order to better protect human rights. Unfortunately, these reforms have not led to greater adherence to China’s international human rights obligations in practice. The reforms failed because they have generally been misunderstood by Chinese judges, who often have a limited understanding of international human rights norms. Specifically, this book will examine how judicial misunderstandings have blocked reforms in one specific area, the use of severe punishments, based on international human rights theory and case studies and data analyses. This examination has several purposes. The first is to suggest that China ratify the ICCPR as the next step for its substantive progress in human rights and as a good preparation for its re-applying to be a member of the UN Human Right Council in the future. The second is to explain how judges could be better educated in international human rights norms so as to greatly reduce the use of severe punishments and better comply with China's human rights obligations. The third is to demonstrate how the international community could better engage with China in a manner that is more conducive to human rights improvements. The author's ultimate goal is to enhance dialogue on human rights in China between judges and the Chinese government, between Chinese judges and their foreign counterparts and between China's government and the international community. Another significant aim of this book is to clarify the controversial question of what obligations China should undertake before its ratification of the ICCPR and to re-examine trends in its developing human rights policy after standing down from the Council in late 2012. The tortuous progress of China’s criminal law and criminal justice reforms has confirmed that Chinese judges need further instruction on how to apply severe punishments in a manner consistent with international standards. Judges should be encouraged to exercise more discretion when sentencing so that penalties reflect the intent of relevant domestic laws as well as the international human rights standards enumerated in the ICCPR. In order to better educate and train judges, this book contains introductory chapters that examine the severe punishments currently available to Chinese judges from an international human rights perspective. To illustrate how Chinese justice currently falls short of international norms, this paper also examines several cases that are considered to be indicative of China’s progress towards greater respect for human rights and the rule of law. These cases demonstrate that China still has a long way to go to achieve its goals, at least before abolishing the death penalty, forced labor and torture.

Author : Chen Guangcheng
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143191964

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The Barefoot Lawyer by Chen Guangcheng Pdf

It was like a scene out of a thriller: one night in April 2012, China’s most famous political activist—a blind, self-taught lawyer—climbed over the wall of his heavily guarded home and escaped. For days, his whereabouts remained unknown; after he turned up at the American embassy in Beijing, a furious round of high-level negotiations finally led to his release and a new life in the United States. Chen Guangcheng is a unique figure on the world stage, but his story is even more remarkable than we knew. The son of a poor farmer in rural China, blinded by illness when he was an infant, Chen was fortunate to survive a difficult childhood. But despite his disability, he was determined to educate himself and fight for the rights of his country’s poor, especially a legion of women who had endured forced sterilizations under the hated “one child” policy. Repeatedly harassed, beaten, and imprisoned by Chinese authorities, Chen was ultimately placed under house arrest. After a year of fruitless protest and increasing danger, he evaded his captors and fled to freedom. Both a riveting memoir and a revealing portrait of modern China, this passionate book tells the story of a man who has never accepted limits and always believed in the power of the human spirit to overcome any obstacle.

Author : Rosemary Foot
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522956

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Rights Beyond Borders by Rosemary Foot Pdf

Over the five decades since the establishment of the UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights issues have become a dominant feature of the international system, embracing new actors, eroding the traditional Westphalian concept of sovereignty, and leading to an acceptance that the treatment of individuals and groups within domestic societies is legitimately a focus of global attention. This book examines the affect that this normative evolution has had on the individual, state, institutional and advocacy network behaviour. Having described this normative environment it assesses its impact on key actors' relationships with China, especially in the period since the Tiananmen bloodshed in June 1989. It also examines China's responses–international and internal–to being the focus of global attention in this issue area. The book's theoretical concerns are to uncover the conditions under which international human rights norms influence behaviour, including domestic changes within states, and about the operation of norms in the global system.

Author : Sida Liu,Terence C. Halliday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107162419

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Criminal Defense in China by Sida Liu,Terence C. Halliday Pdf

This book studies the struggles for basic legal freedoms in the work and political mobilization of defense lawyers in China's criminal justice system.