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CRF 2008, No. 1 - Human Rights: Everyone's Business

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This Issue's Writers

Message from the Executive Director


CSR in Context

• Second Life
  Poem by Yan Li
  
  
• Business & Human Rights: Corporate Recognition and Responsibility
  Christine Bader discusses business's role in society within a human rights framework.
  
  
• Bringing Together Business and Human Rights
  Sharon Hom talks with Human Rights First president Michael Posner about his experience with and insights on corporate social responsibility.
  
  
• Selling Security Systems to China: Risky Business
  Scott Greathead discusses risk management and the sale of sophisticated "crime control" equipment and technology.
  
  

• The Corpse that Puts up Resistance
  Poem by Yan Li
  
  
• A Critical Look at Hubei Yihua Group’s "Corporate Culture"
  Wei Ziyou exposes the company’s shameful practices, in which the pursuit of profit undermines human rights.
  
  
• A History of the "Yahoo! Incident"
  Hu Kunming provides a case overview and raises questions about the risks facing foreign companies in complying with demands of the Chinese government.
  
  
• Africa’s Newest Friends
  Ghislain L. Legault offers a Gabonese citizen’s perspective of China’s impact on the central African country.
  
  
• The Fate of Wu Lihong and Pollution with Chinese Characteristics
  Jiang Fuzhen recounts a citizen’s battle against the destruction of Lake Tai.
  
  
• 11 Years in Prison for Striking a Cymbal?
  Jing Chu tells the story of Mudao Village’s attempt to stand up to the government’s "fee-collecting armies."
  
  
• Hangzhou’s Changyun Group Cheats Workers out of Rightful Company Shares
  Dong Yuan describes how workers organized after they were swindled by their bosses.
  
  
• Two Essays on Market Economy and Democracy
  Qiao Xinsheng presents his arguments on these two questions: "Can authoritarian government further the development of amarket economy?" and "Can amarket economy engender democracy?"
  
  
• The Price of Blood
  Evan Anderson exposes the human costs of the industrial, economic, and social forces at play in the bloodmarket.
  
  

• An Open Letter to Guo Feixiong from His Wife
  Zhang Qing writes to her imprisoned husband publicly in hopes that he receives the letter.
  
  
• With Everest on Our Side: A Personal Story of a Public Protest
  Tenzin Dorjee recounts how he and four other activists pulled off a protest in Tibet.
  
  
• Thank You, Exile
  Wang Ai reflects on China through new eyes after 13 years in exile.
  
  
• Protect Human Rights Lawyers, Establish a Legal System
  Yi Ping interviews lawyer Teng Biao on his rights defense work, and why it’s natural for people to rise up in their own defense when they have been deprived of their rights.
  
  
• One Slogan, Many Meanings: Bring Tibet to the 2008 Games
  Tendon Dahortsang
  
  

• Trends and Developments
  
  
• Take Action: IR2008 Campaign
  
  
• Resource List
  
  
• Chinese Publication Highlights
  
  
• Culture Matters
  
  
Hyperreal Beijing, 888
By Ma Sheng-mei

Jia Zhangke’s Still Life
Reviewed by Joy Chia

Event Feature: Challenging China
Sharon Hom, Yan Li, Hu Ping

Gao Zhisheng’s A China More Just
Reviewed by Kerry Brown


• Bulletin
  
  
  
  
• Index of Articles by Author for 2007
  
  
• Index of Articles by Category for 2007