[COMMENTARY] Challenges for NGOs in China

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By Yu Fangqiang

This week’s blog entry is from Chinese lawyer and rights advocate Yu Fangqiang, who wrote this essay as part of our online colloquium on challenges for civil society in Asia. See the original post in Chinese and English, and responses at Asia Report.

In mainland China it is extremely hard to start up a non-governmental organization (NGO) without a background in government. The difficulties are due to restrictive government policies, monopolization of resources by NGOs with government background, a lack of trust throughout the overall society, the lack of capabilities among the grassroots’ organizations, and unrealistic expectations from funders.

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大家好！ and so we begin…

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[:en]Welcome to the blog for Asia Catalyst. This is a space we’ll be using to share news and information that relates to our work. Most of what you see here will be about AIDS and human rights in China -but from time to time we’ll be posting on other interesting developments in the human rights movement in Asia.

Posts here are written by Sara (Meg) Davis, Asia Catalyst’s founder/director, and by our collective of consultants, volunteers, graduate interns, and passing friends. As of January 2009, our intern/volunteer group includes:

Ken Oh, Asia Report coordinator

Carol Wang, China program coordinator

Lauren A. Burke

Josh Greenstein

Gisa Hartmann

Anton Muhajir

Oliver Dinh

Garrett Traub[:zh]

Welcome to the blog for Asia Catalyst.
This is a space we’ll be using to share news and information that relates to
our work. Most of what you see here will be about AIDS and human rights in China -but from time to time we’ll be posting on
other interesting developments in the human rights movement in Asia.

Posts here are written by Sara (Meg) Davis, Asia Catalyst’s
founder/director, and by our collective of consultants, volunteers, graduate
interns, and passing friends. As of January 2009, our intern/volunteer group
includes:

Ken Oh, Asia Report
coordinator
Carol Wang, China
program coordinator
Lauren A. Burke
Josh Greenstein
Gisa Hartmann
Anton Muhajir
Oliver Dinh
Garrett Traub

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