Geneva Human Rights Summit

UN Watch hosts Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy Geneva, Switzerland - On February 25th, the 2014 6th Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, organized by UN Watch, co-sponsored by twenty-two other human rights groups including Citizen Power for China...

View Video: China tries to silence former political prisoner Yang Jianli GENEVA, March 15 - The Chinese government today interrupted testimony by one of its most well-known former political prisoners in the plenary of the UN Human Rights Council. The Chinese delegate,...

SPEECH by Dr. Yang Jianli Geneva, March 15, 2011 Good afternoon fellow delegates and distinguished guests. Thank you for the opportunity to address you here today. I am compelled to begin with a call for a moment of silence for the Japanese people, whose unimaginable...

Yang Jianli, the world-renowned Chinese dissident and survivor of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, will join other former prisoners of conscience March 15-16 for the third annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy.  Dr. Yang, who served a five-year jail...