The Many Faces of China's Repression: Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and U.S. Diplomacy in China

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 31, 2007

Contact:
Judith Ingram, Communications Director,
(202) 523-3240, ext. 127
cell (202) 375-3787

-EVENT ADVISORY-

The Many Faces of China's Repression: Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and U.S. Diplomacy in China

When: Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 1:30 - 4:00 pm

Where:Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 538

Agenda:

Panel I:Current policy statement from the administration
State Department official invited

Panel II:China's major religious communities: The faces of repression

• Bhuchung Tsering -Vice President, International Campaign for Tibet
• Bob Fu - President, China Aid Association
• Kamila Telenbidaeva - wife of Huseyin Celil, Uyghur Canadian Association
• Erping Zhang - President, Association for Asia Research
• Joseph Kung - President, Cardinal Kung Foundation

Panel III:Human Rights and U.S. Diplomacy in China

• Michael Green - Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies (former Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council)
• Sharon Hom - Executive Director, Human Rights in China

RSVP:Angela Stephens, [email protected], (202) 523-3240, x114

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was created by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to monitor the status of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief abroad, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related international instruments, and to give independent policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State and the Congress.