反對中國再次成為 聯合國人權理事會 成員國的簽名 [Martin Chu says Please help and sign!]
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反對中國再次成為聯合國人權理事會成員國的簽名
[Martin Chu says Please help and sign!]
今年11月中，聯合國大會將會投票選舉人權理事會的成員。讓我們一道迅速行動起來，阻止中國再次成為該理事會的成員國。
Original TEXT from Dr. Jianli Yang2 weeks ago
2013联合国行动 通告（6）
诸位：
截止到今天中午，签名人数达801位，势头良好。
谢谢征集签名的工作团队成员以及各位朋友的努力，他们的贡献，还有很多感人的故事，将会让人们知道。
海外民运的创始人王炳章博士在海外的21位家人悉数签名，他们于今年6月26日开始了无限期营救王炳章的活动，在纽约已经进行了五天五夜“与王炳章同囚”的活动将会持续下去，请朋友们关注声援。
我们工作团队将会在每个星期一通报签名情况，若有特殊情况，将会做特别通报。下个星期一将公布各地各界有影响的人士的签名名单，其中中国国内部分将根据个人的状况和请求做选择性公布。完整的名单将在11月中联合国大会投票选举人权理事会新成员前公布。
北京时间昨天晚上公民企业家王功权以涉嫌“聚众扰乱公共场所秩序”的罪名被刑拘的消息促使许多朋友参与签名活动，他们表示这是中国无资格坐在联合国人权理事会殿堂的又一例证，公民必须采取行动反抗当局对公民运动的镇压。
今天下午公民力量团队拜访美国国务院负责人权事务的办公室，就今年中国政府对公民运动的打压状况，包括最新的王功权案，做全面沟通，并提供我们所知道的全部被捕者的名单和案子详情。这些案子将会汇总为一个人权侵害大案呈交联合国人权理事会。
看到这个通报后，假如尚未签名，请您马上签名。
请各位继续推动签名，向各个方向推动，向新领域推动，在自己的个人朋友圈内争取支持。这是一个开发、聚集公民力量的过程。
谢谢。
杨建利 鞠躬
2013年9月13日
附：簽名方式：
A. 通過谷歌表格(Google Form)填寫個人信息進行簽名。聯結為： https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J9X75pwOsuVzdcpy3bOcEFDR9Nwe3cr66HCIK5PrJh4/viewform
B. 通過電子郵件進行簽名。我們的電子郵箱分別為：lianheguoqianming@gmail.com；unhrcouncil@gmail.com
C. 直接發email給您認識的公民力量義工。
D. 通過街頭活動徵集直接簽名。徵集的簽名發到lianheguoqianming@gmail.com；unhrcouncil@gmail.com或者您認識的公民力量義工
E. 直接回復此郵件組來簽名。
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English Version:
Appeal against China’s Membership of UN Human Rights Council
By Initiatives for China/Citizen Power for China
For Immediate Release: 09/10/2013
To Sign the Appeal to UN Human Rights Council:
A. Go to google form, and sign the petition with your name, occupation, country or region. Click here to enter petition page
B. Sign appeal by sending your name, occupation, country or region to the following email address: lianheguoqianming@gmail.com and unhrcouncil@gmail.com
C. Send your name, occupation, country or region directly to Initiatives for China staff
D. Sign hard copy during related events, and send the collection of signatures to lianheguoqianming@gmail.com and unhrcouncil@gmail.com.
To our fellow Chinese on the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and around the World; and to brothers and sisters in Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian and other ethnic communities:
Today, Initiatives for China has launched a large-scale signature appeal against the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) bid to once again become a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The UN General Assembly shall convene in November 2013 to select new members of the UN Human Rights Council. China, which had two consecutive terms of membership with a one-year leave, has submitted its candidacy.
In its founding resolution 60/251 passed in 2006, the UN General Assembly states that the election of new members “shall take into account the contribution of candidates to the promotion and protection of human rights and their voluntary pledges and commitments thereto.” Members shall “uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights.”
As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China is expected to defend the human rights principals set forth by the UN Charter and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). But in reality, the Chinese government has brutally violated these principles with its horrific human rights records.
Almost a quarter century passed since the Tiananmen Massacre (1989), yet the Chinese government has never admitted its wrongdoing, and has turned a deaf ear to the justifiable requests for “truth, compensation and accountability” made by the victims group Tiananmen Mothers. Even worse, the Chinese government has continually repressed any individuals and groups including the Tiananmen Mothers who have been working to expose the truth and commemorate the victims.
The Tiananmen massacre was not an isolated incident. In the ensuing years, the Chinese government has continued to violated its citizens’ human rights, with all kinds of Tiananmen-like incidents.
Freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, protest, rally, strike and belief have been deprived. Citizens have been taken into custody without due process, with death and disappearances sometimes following. Quite a number of prisoners of conscience have been jailed. Forced demolition, land grabs, forced abortions, illegal prison cells and arrests, torture and brutal beatings happen without restraint. Citizens and their relatives are deprived of their basic rights of exiting and entering the country. Religious groups such as Christian, Falun gong, Tibetan and Chinese Buddhism, Islamic and Xinjiang Uyghur Muslim, have faced severe repression. Non-Han Chinese minority groups have been exploited economically, culturally, with horrific records that have stunned the world, and hardened the hearts of all ethnic groups in China.
The Chinese government has repeated its violations of human rights, despite having signed the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights, as well as the UN Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Meanwhile, the government has hypocritically inserted “The State respects and preserves human rights” into its Constitution.
From 2006 to 2012, while China was a member of the UN Human Rights Council, the government had established an oppressive stability-maintenance system, with funding surpassing its national defense budget. These funds were used by China to monitor and repress its own people. Thousands of instances of illegal repression happened during this period, including the cases of Liu Xiaobo/Liu Xia, Gao Zhisheng, Ai Weiwei, Chen Guangcheng, Hada, Gheyret Niyaz, Dhondup Wangchen, among others.
China has become the only country that has put a Nobel laureate behind bars. Its problematic ethnic policy has led to a series of deplorable incidents. There was the Lhasa incident on March 14, 2008 in Tibet, the Urumqi 5 July Incident, Mongolian herdsman Zorigt death incident in 2011, and more than 100 Tibetan self-immolations. In the most recent months, while China has submitted its bid to become a UN Human Rights Council member, the government has intensified its suppression of online freedom of speech and of the citizen movement. It has arrested and jailed dozens of activists who voiced their opinions on disclosing personal wealth of officialdom and those active online public opinion leaders.
The Chinese governmental human rights violation has spread beyond the border of Mainland Chinese, and spilled into Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
In Hong Kong, the Chinese government has tried to control elections of the Chief Executive and local legislature with its “Pay-to-Play” tickets. A number of Pro-Democracy legislators are denied visitation passes, and cannot return to the mainland. Media professionals cannot come to the mainland for interviews, and Hong Kong journalists on the mainland suffer intimidation and even beatings. Some businessmen have become victims of fraud, with no access to appeal for justice.
All of these barriers have failed the commitment of “One Country, Two Systems,” thus causing Hong Kong residents to launch “Occupy Central ” movement, which has been blamed and demonized by Beijing regime.
Macau has faced even stricter control from the Beijing regime. With Legislature 23, and overall control of the media, democracy and social movements are experiencing great difficulty. Beijing has made it impossible even for a number of Hong Kong pro-democracy members to visit Macau.
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Taiwanese democracy has also severely suffered at the hands of Beijing. News media has been interfered with and freedom of speech at risk. Taiwan businessmen’s interests cannot be guaranteed on the mainland with increasing number of violations against them. A number of democratic individuals have been barred from entrance into Hong Kong and the Mainland, while members of religious groups, like Falun gong, have been detained illegally.
Even worse, the Chinese government has continually repressed Taiwan on the international stage, leaving the people in Taiwan without representation at the UN. All of these unfortunate and tragic events happening in China under the authoritarian rule have made China become a place plagued with human rights tragedies. Such a tragic situation in China has spread into its neighboring regions. If such a horrific condition cannot be improved, how can China be qualified for admission into the UN Human Rights Council?
We ourselves are all victims of such a Communist authoritarian rule in China, being enslaved, repressed, deprived, politically misrepresented and brainwashed, fooled, manipulated, intimidated, divided and demonized, every day and everywhere in China, and beyond. We must engage with the international community to have a grand debate and conversation regarding China’s questionable qualifications to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council. We want to make sure that the Chinese government’s human rights violation records must be made available in full before the Human Rights Council, pushing the international community to have a realistic understanding of the Communist authoritarian regime in China and the current conditions regarding political, economic, societal, cultural, religious, ethnic and environmental issues in today’s China. With joint efforts of international justice, every one of us has a role to play in promoting human rights progress in China.
To those ends, we call on each and every one of the fellow Chinese, and our sisters and brothers in Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian ethnic communities to join us hand in hand and raise your voices on the stage of the UN Human Rights Council to foil the Communist authoritarian regime in China, in the name of human rights. We the people dare to launch our first assault against the dictatorship in the history of the United Nations.
We request your signature to oppose China’s eligibility and qualification to join the UN Human Rights Council. Step up your efforts to present the current Chinese human rights record to the United Nations, and engage all possible activities with all available resources to prevent China becoming a member of the UN Human Rights Council.
In 1945, when one of the worst periods of violence in human history had ended, 26 countries signed the Charter of the United Nations, to shed the light of hope for the world amid its darkest moment of horror.
The best wishes of human beings have been laid out in the Charter of the United Nations, “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small.”
In 1948 the UN adopted and promulgated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as a milestone of global progress of human beings. However, we must question the following: How come the UN Charter, with its elegant statement on human wishes and endeavors about the pursuit peace and security, can be so easily ignored by its members? How come the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with principles to preserve human dignity, can be treated with such contempt?
While the Chinese government has continually violated human rights within the country, its foreign policy has assisted dictatorships in North Korea, Iran and Syria, among other rogue regimes. These regimes have repressed their own people. With its brash arrogance, greed and lack of confidence, the Chinese government has landed its brutal rule beyond its borders. The Chinese regime has showed an open contempt that challenges the foundations of human civilization
Yet, some of those regimes with horrible human rights records, like China, have also taken seats on the UN Human Rights Council. Why so? Back in February 2011, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi twice praised the Chinese government’s massacre on Tiananmen Square in 1989. This demonstrates that a crime being ignored will only spread and be imitated. On an encouraging note, the United Nations ceased Libyan membership at the UN Human Rights Council in March 2011 for its government’s role in massacre. We hope the same human rights standards will be applied to all member countries of the United Nations, including China.
The United Nations was founded with hard truths from World War II, from which we must at least draw two basic lessons: One is that any regime that deprives its citizens fundamental human rights will face instability; and, the world will suffer harm from those unstable regimes if the international community continues to ignore such violations of human rights by the government.
With these two lessons in mind, we firmly believe that human dignity must be preserved, with shared justice and human rights standards. Any violation of human rights must not go unnoticed behind the curtains of cultural relativism and cultural exceptionalism.
We solemnly declare that it is wrong for the United Nations to apply different standards to different member countries. It is wrong to allow those regimes without legitimate representation of its people or which even harm its people, to join the United Nations. It is wrong to allow a dictatorship at the UN Security Council to veto a resolution in order to foil the international community’s efforts to punish human rights violators. It is wrong to allow such human rights violators like China to sit at the UN Human Rights Council.
For any organizations, regardless of its size, its eventual interest will have to depend and come to its individual members. For the United Nations, its ultimate aim is to serve the well-being and interests of all the people of its member countries. And these have been clearly declared in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as the most important document for the UN to date.
Therefore, power and influence of the UN members should be proportionate by the degree of democracy and legitimate representation of its people. Any dictatorship does not actually represent its own people and therefore cannot represent its own people at the UN. The United Nations must pay more attention to the unheard voices of citizens of non-democracies.
Under current rules, any country needs 97 votes at the UN General Assembly to become a member of the UN Human Rights Council. If each and every democracy says “No,” the chances for China are zero. Such a vote on China will test any democratic country’s commitment to democracy and human rights.
Therefore, we call on all democracies not to humiliate your great country and voters, and choose to cast a “No” vote on China, in the name of humanitarian principles.
China is a member nation that cannot be taken lightly, with vast land and a huge population, combined with rising economy and military. But the United Nations should and must not submit to national power by applying different human rights standards to different members. We believe the United Nations represents the fundamental values and principles of human beings, and therefore, should not and must not sit idly by in face of the horrible human rights violations in China.
We therefore appeal to the United Nations to do the following:
(1) Press the Chinese government to release Liu Xiaobo, Wang Bingzhang, and other political prisoners, to start with its improvements of human rights records.
(2) Push the Chinese government to allow the Tiananmen Mothers to openly and freely commemorate their victims on the 25th anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre. The United Nations should conduct an independent investigation of the Tiananmen Massacre, to seek comprehensive truth for the public, and urge the Chinese government to answer their justifiable requests of “Truth, Compensation and Accountability” from the Tiananmen Mothers.
(3) To conduct a comprehensive and independent investigation of Tibetan self-immolation and publish its finding report, and press the Chinese government to allow the return of Tibetan spiritual leader to Tibet.
(4) To conduct a comprehensive and independent investigation of the July 5 Urumuqi Indident and publish its findings.
(5) To conduct a comprehensive and independent 5.25 Zorigt death incident and publish its findings.
(6) To conduct a comprehensive and independent investigation of the 14-year long repression against Falun gong, and urges the Chinese government to stop persecuting all religious groups.
(7) Urges the Chinese government to respect the democratic rights of the residents in Hong Kong and Macau, and to preserve the “One Country Two System” promise, and to realize the direct and popular election of Chief Executives and local legislature.
(8) Take steps to allow the people in Taiwan to have their representation at UN-led institutions, and to stop any further repression on Taiwan at international community.
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Original TEXT in Chinese from Dr. Yang
2013 聯合國行動 通告（3）
在香港，以中聯辦為首的＂西環治港＂由特首到立法會再到區議會的選舉勢必企圖掌控大局，因而買票種票之舉時有所聞。多名泛民主派立法會議員沒有回鄉證，無法到中國大陸進行交流，回國無門；多位媒體界人士無法到中國大陸自由採訪，記者採訪又備受恐嚇與威脅，有的甚至遭到毆打；多個商界人士投資失利遭騙卻申訴無門。凡此種種，讓一國兩制的承諾成空，港人無可奈何下發起的和平佔領中環行動也不斷遭到北京當局的抹黑及阻撓。
在澳門，民主選舉更為癡心妄想，二十三條的立法，媒體的全面被掌控，使得民主及社運工作進行更為不易。入境澳門也成了當局控制的一種手段，香港多名泛民主派人士入境澳門全都遭到拒絕。
台灣的民主品質也遭到北京當局的嚴重危害。新聞媒體被日漸滲透，言論自由空間因而縮小；台商的權益在中國無法得到充分保障，遭嚴重侵害的案例時有發生；多名政治與民主人士也因為受到港府與中國政府的黑名單而不能自由進出中國與香港；宗教人士（如法輪功學員）在中國被非法關押；等等。更有甚者，由於中國政府在國際上的持續打壓，台灣人民淪為在聯合國不被代表的人民。
因此， 我們呼籲香港、澳門和台灣的人民，向聯合國陳情，反應中國政府對你們人權的侵害和對你們民主、自由生活的危害的真實狀況，挑戰中國在聯合國人權理事會的成員資格。
今年11月中，聯合國大會將會投票選舉人權理事會的成員。讓我們一道迅速行動起來，阻止中國再次成為該理事會的成員國。
楊建利 鞠躬
2013年9月4日
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