This
month, Chinese legislators are reviewing a ground-breaking proposal
that would provide compensation to tens of thousands of victims of
the HIV/AIDS tainted blood disaster. A new report, released today by
Asia Catalyst, shows this compensation fund is urgently needed, since
victims have been unable to get fair compensation on their own.
China Program Officer Mike Frick produced a snapshot of the current state of health rights groups in China, based off information gathered from NGOs that participated in Asia Catalyst’s coaching program. China’s civil society sector has grown rapidly over the past ten years, but it is still in an early stage of development. Because most grassroots NGOs are unable to legally register, and because most founders have little to no prior NGO or management experience, they face numerous challenges in the effort to professionalize operations while providing needed services and conducting policy advocacy. Read the full report here.
1.
[China Dialogue] What the smog can’t conceal
(English)
https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4734-What-the-smog-can-t-conceal-
(Chinese)
https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/ch/4734-What-the-smog-can-t-conceal-
Since
the autumn, a series of polluted “hazes” in cities across China –
and discussion of that now ubiquitous term for fine particulate
matter, PM2.5 – have attracted widespread public attention. So too
has the official response: while urban air pollution fast became a
focus of public anger, the Ministry of Environmental Protection
(MEP), which is responsible for monitoring air quality, took the
opportunity to show its sluggish and bureaucratic side.
2.
[Blog | New Yorker] The Chinese View of
SOPA
https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/01/the-chinese-view-of-sopa.html
In
China, the reaction to American protests has ranged from sympathy to
gentle Schadenfreude. A commentator known as Dr. Zhang wrote on
Weibo, the Twitter-like micro-blogging site: “I’ve come up with a
perfect solution: You can come to China to download all your pirated
media, and we’ll go to America to discuss politically sensitive
subjects.”
Working with the United
Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society is addressed to
the civil society actors who, every day in every part of the world, contribute to the
promotion, protection and advancement of human rights. This comprehensively
updated and revised second edition puts United Nations human rights bodies and
mechanisms at its center. Speaking to all civil society actors, including but
not only non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Handbook explains how civil
society can engage with various United Nations human rights bodies and
mechanisms. It is the hope of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) that this Handbook will enable more
people to enjoy and make claim to their human rights through these bodies and mechanisms.
Download the English
handbook: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/AboutUs/CivilSociety/Documents/Handbook_en.pdf
下载中文手册：
https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/AboutUs/CivilSociety/OHCHR_Handbook_Ch.pdf
With the beginning of the new year, Asia Catalyst paved the ground for rapid growth of our capacity building program in China and Southeast Asia. This year in China, Asia Catalyst will begin short-term capacity-building partnerships of three to six months with seven new Chinese NGOs run by drug users, sex workers, and LGBT people — all communities directly affected by HIV/AIDS.
This year, an expanded technical assistance grant allowed us to issue a general call for applications from grassroots NGOs in China that want to strengthen their organizational management skills and build their future stability.
