WATCH – China at a Crossroads – Standing up for Human Rights During the Coronavirus Pandemic - The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China

This event was hosted and co-sponsored by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, China Digital Times, the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, Canada Tibet Committee, International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, the Federation for a Democratic China and the Nobel Women’s Initiative.

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Program:

1) China’s attempt to quarantine the truth and increasing threats against the media and journalists

Moderator: Judith Abitan, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (RWCHR)

– Xiao Qiang, Director and Research Scientist at Counter-Power Lab at UC Berkeley, Founder and Editor of China Digital Times

– Sarah Cook, Senior Research Analyst for China at Freedom House and Director of China Media Bulletin

– Chris Walker, Vice President, Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy

2) China’s political prisoners and mistreatment of minorities

Moderator: Kyle Matthews, Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies and Human Rights (MIGS)

– Jewher Ilham, Human rights activist and author whose father, an Uyghur scholar, is detained by the Chinese state

– Naomi Kikoler, Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

– Emily Lau, Journalist and First Woman elected to the Hong Kong Legislative Council

3) Identifying ways to hold the Chinese government accountable for the pandemic and human rights abuses

Moderator: Terry Glavin, journalist and RWCHR Senior Fellow

– Kimberly Kitching , Australian Senator and Chair of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee

– Irwin Cotler, Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and longtime Parliamentarian

– Carl Gershman, President of National Endowment for Democracy

– Sheng Xue, Chairperson of International Federation for a Democratic China