Download or read book The Actual and Potential Roles Played by Chinese Ngos in Human Rights Promotion and Protection in China written by Jie Tang and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Actual and Potential Roles Played by Chinese NGOs in Human Rights Promotion and Protection in China" by Jie, Tang, 湯杰, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract of thesis entitled The Actual and Potential Roles Played by Chinese NGOs in Human Rights Promotion and Protection in China Submitted by Tang Jie for the degree of Master of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong in August 2005 Last decade has witnessed a stunning growth of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in mainland China, covering economic, social, cultural, educational, scientific and legal areas, a phenomenon which has been said to be the emerging civil society in China. This non-state sector has been playing active roles to China's socioeconomic development. Internationally, NGOs have the nature ties with the global human rights movement. They contribute substantially to human rights advancement worldwide through all kinds of format, including standard setting, human rights education, legal and humanitarian aid, etc. This thesis attaches special attention to Chinese NGOs' contribution to the human rights situation in China. It first analyzes NGO's development trajectory in contemporary China and points out the major factors affecting NGO's growth. It then discusses existing NGO laws in China, attempting at analyzing the legislation deficiency and putting forward the suggestions for improvement. Through several detailed case studies, this paper figures out the legal and political environments facing by nascent Chinese non-state entities. It argues although compared with the international NGOs, Chinese human rights non-state activists are still on their infancy stage, they could play the leading role to promote human rights causes in China in the coming years. By examining the specific NGO examples working in the human rights field, this study reviews the strategies employed and the challenges encountered by these non-state actors within their human rights efforts. The future prospect for NGOs human rights work in China is also presented in the thesis. An abstract of exactly 243 words DOI: 10.5353/th_b3690115 Subjects: Non-governmental organizations - China Human rights - China