Citizen Power Initiatives for China
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| Founded | 2008 |
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| Founders | Yang Jianli |
| Type | Non-profit NGO |
| Focus | Human Rights, Democratic Transition |
| Headquarters | 415 2nd Street N.E. #100, Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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| Website | www |
Formerly called | Initiatives for China |
Citizen Power Initiatives for China, previously known as Initiatives for China or Citizen Power for China, is pro-democracy movement and NGO committed for a peaceful transition to democracy in China through non-violent strategies based in Washington, D.C.[3] The organization has been involved with works on U.S. Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act,[4] the Australian Magnitsky Act,[5] representing Liu Xiaobo at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony,[6] and 2014 Hong Kong protests.[7]
Background
[edit]Initiatives for China was founded in 2008 by Dr. Yang Jianli after being released from Chinese prison for his political activities. The organization is a successor of the formal Foundation for China in the 21st Century, and it has continued foundation's tasks of Yibao Online Magazine[8] and its Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference.[9] Begin in 2018, the organization has officially adopted its new name Citizen Power Initiatives for China.[10]
Initiatives
[edit]2010 Nobel Peace Prize
[edit]The organization's president, Dr. Yang Jianli represented Dr. Liu Xiaobo and Liu's wife Liu Xia (poet) to coordinate with Norway's Nobel Peace Prize Committee for the 2010 Nobel Ceremony.[11] Dr. Yang Jianli and Nobel Peace Prize Committee decided on the Empty Chair symbol of the ceremony.[12]
Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conference
[edit]The Interethnic Interfaith Leadership Conferences began in 2000 in Boston, Massachusetts, with the guidance of the 14th Dalai Lama[13] and support from National Endowment for Democracy. The Conference seeks to advance mutual understanding, respect, and cooperation among the diverse ethnic, religious, and regional groups who live under the direct rule of the Chinese government, and people living in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, and to explore universal values, which will provide common ground for a common democratic future. The groups represented in the Conference include Han Chinese, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, Muslims, Buddhists, and people from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
Past Conferences have been held in strategic locations throughout the world: from Boston for the 1st, 2nd and 4th assemblies, to Hartford for the 3rd, to Washington, DC[14] for the 5th and 10th, 13th, to California for the 6th and 7th, to Taiwan for the 8th and 9th, to Dharamsala, India[15] for the 11th, and to Tokyo, Japan[16] for the 12th.
Yibao
[edit]Formally known as ChinaEWeekly, Yibao was established in the 1990s, has published op-eds and news articles focused on the human rights and rule of law situation inside China. A number of journalists and contributors, including Chen Wei,[17] Liu Xianbin, Chen Daojun[18] from China has been arrested and sentenced by Chinese authority.
References
[edit]- ^ "Jimmy Carter is still soft on China". The Washington Post. January 4, 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Our Team". Citizen Power Initiatives for China. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ "YANG Jianli". www.righttononviolence.org. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "House Hearing, 114 Congress - CHINA IN 1989 AND 2015: TIANANMEN, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND DEMOCRACY". www.govinfo.gov. June 3, 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ CALLICK, Rowan. "Warning over China's 'hard power rise'". news.com.au. Retrieved 2019-03-25.
- ^ Harris, Paul (2010-11-21). "Chinese dissident plans empty chair protest for Nobel peace prize ceremony". The Guardian. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ Kuenssberg, Laura (2014-10-21). "Activists talk Hong Kong over canapés". Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "关于我们 - China YiBao". www.yibaochina.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ HRWF. "CHINA: Legislative landmark: US Congress passes Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act | Human Rights Without Frontiers". hrwf.eu. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "The Rise of Authoritarianism and the Erosion of Freedom in Hong Kong". www.chinauncensored.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Chinese Nobel prize winner's wife detained - CNN.com". www.cnn.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ Harris, Paul (2010-11-21). "Chinese dissident plans empty chair protest for Nobel peace prize ceremony". The Guardian. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Dalai Lama says information control retards peaceful change in China". www.tibetanreview.net. May 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Dalai Lama says information control retards peaceful change in China". www.tibetanreview.net. May 2015. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "India cancels Chinese dissident's visa". 2016-04-25. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Steve Bannon in Japan, rails against China's 'hegemonic' ambitions". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ Chen, Wei (2010-12-19). "Thoughts on fasting". Index on Censorship. 41 (1): 107–112. doi:10.1177/0306422012438818. S2CID 147156718.
- ^ Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | Political essayist gets three years in prison for three articles posted online". Refworld. Retrieved 2019-03-23.