The Costs of International Advocacy

China’s Interference in United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms

on September 1, 2017

Even as it engages with U.N. human rights institutions, China has worked consistently and often aggressively to silence criticism of its human rights record before U.N. bodies and has taken actions aimed at weakening some of the central mechanisms available in those institutions to advance rights. Because of China’s growing international influence, the stakes of such interventions go beyond how China’s own human rights record is addressed at the U.N. and pose a longer-term challenge to the integrity of the system as a whole.

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Politics
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Human Rights
International Law
International Relations
International Order
United Nations
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Human Rights Watch

Andreas Fulda

on August 31, 2017

Andreas Fulda is an Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. His research is in the fields of E.U.-China relations as well as philanthropy and civil society in Greater China.

As a consultant, he helped design and implement three major capacity-building initiatives for Chinese civil society organisations: the Participatory Urban Governance Programme for Migrant Integration (2006-2007), the Social Policy Advocacy Coalition for Healthy and Sustainable Communities (2009-2011) and the E.U.-China Civil Society Dialogue Programme on Participatory Public Policy (2011-14).

His consultancy work has led to two book publications: a Chinese-language Policy Advocacy Manual on Environment and Health for NPOs (Zhongguo Huanjing Chubanshe, 2013) and the book Civil Society Contributions to Policy Innovation in the PR China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

More Women Are in Hong Kong’s Prisons Than Anywhere Else. They Should Be Protected, Not Criminalized

By Yenni Kwok on August 31, 2017

Hong Kong and Macau, two cities associated with wealth and riches, hold a dubious distinction in the justice system: they put women behind bars at a shockingly high proportion. Women comprise 20.8% of Hong Kong’s prison population, while in neighboring Macau, 14.7% of its prison population are women – the fourth highest.

Law, Society
Imprisonment, Criminal Justice, Hong Kong, Women’s Rights

Young People in China Have Started a Fashion Movement Built around Nationalism and Racial Purity

By Kevin Carrico on August 31, 2017

The Han Clothing Movement, a youth-based grassroots nationalist movement built around China’s majority Han ethnic group, has emerged over the past 15 years in urban China. It imagines the numerically and culturally dominant Han—nearly 92% of China’s population—as the target of oppression by both China’s minorities and “the West,” in need of revitalization to save China.

Arts, Education, History, Politics, Society
Nationalism, Racism, Han Race, Youth

Oriana Skylar Mastro

on August 30, 2017

Oriana Skylar Mastro is an assistant professor of security studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In August 2020, Mastro will join the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University as a Center Fellow where she will continue her research on Chinese military and security policy, Asia-Pacific security issues, war termination, and coercive diplomacy. Dr. Mastro is also a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an inaugural Wilson Center China Fellow. Mastro continues to serve in the United States Air Force Reserve for which she works as a Senior China Analyst at the Pentagon. For her contributions to U.S. strategy in Asia, she won the Individual Reservist of the Year Award in 2016. She has published widely, including in Foreign Affairs, International Security, International Studies Review, Journal of Strategic Studies, The Washington Quarterly, The National Interest, Survival, and Asian Security, and is the author of The Costs of Conversation: Obstacles to Peace Talks in Wartime, (Cornell University Press, 2019). She holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. Her publications and other commentary can be found at www.orianaskylarmastro.com.