Tag: Human rights

Opinion – China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Pragmatism over Morals?

By Tabita Rosendal, Ph.D. student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden and an affiliate at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen, Denmark.

Is China beating the US and EU through its pragmatic approach towards cooperation under the “Belt and Road” Initiative (“一带一路”倡议) (BRI)? Despite the advent of the US’ “Build Back Better World” (B3W) and the EU’s “Connecting Europe Globally” (CEG), evidence from Sri Lanka suggests that some countries still look to China for support due to the ‘no-strings-attached’ nature of its investments. The stark reality is that China’s “pragmatic values”, combined with loans, may outcompete the two Western initiatives.

Controversial Chinese activist receives the Simone de Beauvoir prize for Women’s freedom

On January 11th, in Paris, the Simone de Beauvoir prize for Women’s freedom 2010 was awarded to two Chinese women, GUO Jianmei 郭健梅, a lawyer in Beijing and Prof. AI Xiaoming 艾晓明 from Sun Zhongshan University (Canton). The Simone de Beauvoir Prize is an international human rights prize for women’s freedom, awarded since 2008 to […]

Some thoughts about the background to the recent events in Urumchi from a sociolinguist’s point of view

Joakim Enwall, Associate Professor
Chinese Language and Culture
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala University

Cambodia’s wheel of history rolls on

Alexandra Kent
Senior Researcher
NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Thirty years after the end of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, a ‘hybrid’ war crimes tribunal has finally begun. A mixed team of Cambodian and foreign lawyers have just kicked into motion with the trial of ‘Duch’, the first of five suspects to be tried. The others are Khmer Rouge leaders Khieu Samphan, Ieng Thirith, Ieng Sary and Nuon Chea.

Europe and the suffering people of Burma/Myanmar

Timo Kivimäki,
Senior Researcher
NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Rohingyas – the forgotten people of Burma turning up on Thailand´s paradise beaches

Martin Gemzell,
Asia Program Manager
Olof Palme International Center

China’s Charter 08 – a civic call worth noticing

Cecilia Milwertz
Senior researcher
NIAS – Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

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Surrendering to the Impatient?

Trine Brox

Ph.D. Candidate, Tibetology

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Human rights in a frenzied time

Otto Malmgren

Norsk-kinesisk menneskerettighetsdialog: mer enn diplomati og formelle møter?

Cecilie Figenschou Bakke
Director, China Programme, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo