[REPORT] Managing Strengths and Weaknesses: A Survey of Chinese Health Rights Groups (2012)

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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.

[REPORT] Report on the Impact of China’s 2010 “Strike Hard Campaign”: A Crackdown on Sex Work

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The 2010 “Strike Hard Campaign” put in place a zero tolerance policy on sex work, gambling and drugs all across China. While many brothels and popular clubs were closed ultimately sex workers continued work out in more remote areas. This geographic shift cut people off from essential health services, HIV/AIDS education, and even funeral services for women who die while cut off from their families.

Here in its first major report The China Sex Worker Organization Network Forum trained its members to document the effects of the crackdown. With interviews with close to 300 sex workers from around the country the report documents how “local stakeholders, including sex workers, owners of EEs and sex worker service organizations, see the impacts of these crackdowns and their effects on HIV intervention.”

The report (here in its original in Chinese and translated by volunteers in the network into English here), published in December 2011, finds that the crackdown was a disaster for them.