Advocacy and Rights

12 Moments In China’s Women’s Rights Movement in 2013: A Review of the Year’s Innovative Public Actions  

The Women's Network publishes a list of the top twelve events that occurred in the Chinese women's rights sector in 2013.

2014-04-08

A Review of Civic Environmentalism in China in 2012

Feng Yongfeng, founder of the Green Beagle Environment Institute (达尔问自然求知社) and Nature University (自然大学), reviews the ups and downs in civic environmentalism in 2012.

2014-04-07

Beijing University Civil Society Center’s “Ten Major Events in China’s Social Sector for 2013”

On January 15, 2014, the Beijing University Center for Civil Society Studies announced the 10 top events of 2013 selected by a group of experts.

2014-03-25

NGOs Have a Role in Organizing Society: An Interview with Michael Busgen

CDB Editor, Liu Haiying, interviews Michael Busgen, long-time observer of China’s NGO sector, who offers some refreshing commentary on the past, present and future of China’s NGOs.

2014-02-10

Chinese NGOs in a Globalizing World

Wu Chen discusses a weakness of China’s grassroots NGOs that prevents them from fully participating in international development discussions: their lack of English language skills and familiarity with international perspectives.

2014-01-07

Civil Society Happenings for November 2013 – CUSP, Biennial Conference for Educational NGOs, and more!

The CDB staff have been very busy over the past few weeks attending events across China, read some of their reviews.

2013-12-14

NGOs Have Their Say: The 2013 China Foundation Rankings

Assistant Director of CDB (English) Tom Bannister reports on the recent publication of a rankings index in which Chinese NGOs got the chance to rate the foundations that fund them.

2013-12-14

Environmental Advocacy Through Institutionalized Interaction with the Government

This is the second installment of a case study examining a Chongqing environmental NGO that uses a novel and effective way to supervise local government agencies and companies.

2013-11-28

The Chongqing Two Rivers Center: An Environmental Watchdog

Fu Tao, CDB’s Senior Researcher, reports on a relatively new environmental NGO in Chongqing that has established a regular pattern of interaction with the local Environment Protection Bureau.

2013-11-21

The China AIDS Walk 2013: Walking to Raise Awareness

Shawn Shieh gives a personal account of taking part in the recently held China AIDS Walk, and discusses the strategies employed by the organizers that enabled them to successfully hold the event.

2013-11-14

The AIDS Walk: Promoting Public Service in China

In this timely article, CDB Deputy Editor, Guo Ting, discusses the China AIDS Walk, a grassroots-organized public service event to call attention to discrimination against people living with HIV-AIDS.

2013-10-10

Tongxin Experimental and New Citizen’s Jinghua: Beijing’s Migrant Schools Meet Different Fates

The author, who goes by the pseudonym, Zhong Shiwu, discusses how one migrant school was able to survive a rash of school closings in Beijing by going public rather than engage in behind-the-scenes negotiations

2013-10-06

A Chinese NGO with International Characteristics: The Morning Tears Advocacy Model

China’s internationalization has led to the emergence of NGOs that no longer fit neatly into the Chinese NGO or international NGO category but rather constitute a hybrid. Fiorinda Di Fabio looks at one such hybrid and its blueprint for conducting effective advocacy on child protection and welfare in China.

2013-08-08

International NGOs Should Increase, Not Reduce, Their Support for Chinese Civil Society Organizations

In response to cutbacks in international funding assistance to China, Yu Fangqiang, executive director of the Nanjing-based civil rights NGO, Justice For All, says that, now more than ever, Chinese NGOs need more funding and support from the international community.

2013-08-01

Southern Metropolis Daily – The Difficulties of NGOs

Recently, an influential think tank and NGO called Beijing Transition Research Institute (北京传知行社会经济研究所) was shut down by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, bringing issues related to NGO registration and management back into the spotlight.

2013-07-30

View from the Media: Controversy over the Environmental Public Interest Lawsuit

Environmental NGOs and scholars are upset over a possible revision to the Environmental Protection Law that would permit only one GONGO (government-organized NGO) to file environmental public interest lawsuits, preventing NGOs from serving as primary plaintiffs.

2013-07-16

Carrying Out Public Advocacy Through Performance Art

Wang Man looks at how performance art can be an effective means of carrying out public interest advocacy in China, using two recent cases advocating on behalf of gender equality.

2013-07-16

Social Resource Institute – Political and legal social orgs will not benefit from reforms

While social organization policy reform will ease the registration process for some types of NGOs, political and legal NGOs will continue to face difficulty in registering.

2013-07-03

CDB Reports

12 Moments In China’s Women’s Rights Movement in 2013: A Review of the Year’s Innovative Public Actions

A Review of Civic Environmentalism in China in 2012

NGOs Have a Role in Organizing Society: An Interview with Michael Busgen

Chinese NGOs in a Globalizing World

Civil Society Happenings for November 2013 – CUSP, Biennial Conference for Educational NGOs, and more!

NGOs Have Their Say: The 2013 China Foundation Rankings

Environmental Advocacy Through Institutionalized Interaction with the Government

The Chongqing Two Rivers Center: An Environmental Watchdog

The China AIDS Walk 2013: Walking to Raise Awareness

Tongxin Experimental and New Citizen’s Jinghua: Beijing’s Migrant Schools Meet Different Fates

A Chinese NGO with International Characteristics: The Morning Tears Advocacy Model

International NGOs Should Increase, Not Reduce, Their Support for Chinese Civil Society Organizations

Southern Metropolis Daily – The Difficulties of NGOs

View from the Media: Controversy over the Environmental Public Interest Lawsuit

Carrying Out Public Advocacy Through Performance Art

Social Resource Institute – Political and legal social orgs will not benefit from reforms

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