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July 29, 2008 Special Event The Half King and Human Rights Watch are pleased to
invite you to a China's Great Leap:
Edited by Minky Worden and with contributions by 25 China experts including two Pulitzer Prize winners, the book addresses two key questions: What pledges did the Chinese government make on human rights reforms when bidding for the 2008 Olympic Games, and is Beijing keeping these pledges? More on China's Great Leap is available here: http://china.hrw.org/chinas_great_leap. “Improving human rights in China is indeed an Olympian challenge. This book shows why it is so important that the Chinese people gain greater freedom even as China itself plays a larger role on the world stage.” – Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu “Only Minky Worden could have persuaded so many well-informed and interesting voices to comment on China and the Olympics. China will help shape the century to come. China’s Great Leap helps to tell us how this could be for better not worse.” – Christopher Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University, last Governor of Hong Kong As the world counts down to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China's Great Leap tackles the toughest issues surrounding the Games and provides deep political, social, and historical insights to help explain China’s “great leap” onto the world stage. This book draws on the insight of 25 leading China experts who explain the challenges facing Beijing – from staging a successful Olympics and burnishing its international image to dealing with pressure for human rights reform and greater political and religious freedom. China’s Great Leap illuminates China’s recent history and outlines how domestic and international pressure in the context of the Olympics could achieve human rights change. Those who take an interest in China’s future should read this book to evaluate whether the staging of the Olympics in China could indeed be a possible springboard for a “great leap forward” in terms of openness and accountability – or whether the Olympics could instead worsen the deteriorating human rights climate in the world’s most populous country. ------------------ As Media Director of Human Rights Watch, Minky Worden works with the world’s journalists to help them cover crises, wars, human rights abuses and political developments in more than 70 countries worldwide. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, Ms. Worden lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee and worked at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter for the U.S. Attorney General and in the Executive Office for US Attorneys. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ms. Worden speaks Cantonese and German, and is an elected member of the Overseas Press Club's Board of Governors. She is the co-editor of Torture, published by the New Press in 2005. |
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This event is free and open to the public |
