Word: manifestos
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...recent weeks Bao has repeatedly questioned the authoritarian nature of China's central government. He helped draft Charter 08, a lengthy pro-democracy manifesto that was made public Dec. 10 and was initially signed by 303 mainland writers, scholars and artists - a number that has since grown to several thousand. Then he released a series of essays through Radio Free Asia that questioned the accomplishments of the Party. In those essays, Bao argued that the Communist Party's motivations for reforming the economy in the early 1980s after the devastation of the Cultural Revolution were not entirely pure. "Even though...
Charter 08 - which is based on Charter 77, a human-rights manifesto signed by dissidents in Czechoslovakia in 1977 - calls for several political reforms in China including direct elections, a separation of political powers, free speech, legalization of political parties and the creation of an independent judiciary. Critically, it doesn't call for the Communist Party to step down, but envisions a system that advances beyond one-party rule, says Nicholas Bequelin, a Hong Kong?based researcher for the NGO Human Rights Watch. "It does not say, 'We should set up a party to topple the Party.' They...
...release last week of a human rights manifesto signed by hundreds of mainland scholars, lawyers and ex-officials has prompted a stern response from Chinese authorities who have jailed one signer and contacted dozens...
...group of prominent Chinese scholars, lawyers and former officials issued a manifesto this week calling on the Communist Party to back wide-ranging political reforms including direct elections, a separation of powers and the rehabilitation of people persecuted under authoritarian rule...
...March of 1956—just months before Edward M. Kennedy graduated from Harvard College—96 members of the United States House of Representatives ratified the Southern Manifesto, a document drafted by the late Senator Strom Thurmond that labeled the racial integration of Southern schools a “clear abuse of judicial power.” A glimpse at today’s newspapers, plastered as many of them are with pictures and coverage of America’s first black President-elect, reveals exactly how much has changed in the 52 intervening years. Much of that...