Democracy? : of course! -- The tightrope walker -- Public interest litigation -- A war of words -- Half the sky -- Legal minefields -- The black children -- Risky proceedings -- Human rights in practice
Summary
How do Chinese people defend human rights in China without going to jail? How can they seek justice without the state hitting back at them? The human rights situation in China is not without its challenges but even so the last decades have seen marked improvements. Even so, much of the international attention on the issue is focused on human rights violations and the suppression of dissent; it is rare to find accounts of people inside China working on human rights who are not being harassed or put into jail. In what is probably the first Western book to see the Chinese human rights issue solely from a Chinese perspective, "Walking a Tightrope" gives voice to nine Chinese human rights defenders, describing their challenges, setbacks and progress - defending human rights, Chinese style
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Originally published in Danish (Copenhagen : Frydenlund, 2010); updated and translated into English
