On 26 September 2006 WEI Jingsheng, Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, and HUANG Ciping, Secretary-General, spoke at a briefing organised by the Transnational Radical Party (TRP).
WEI Jingsheng and HUANG Ciping with Transnational Radical Party Give Briefing at the United Nation's Human Rights Council
With this year's newly formed United Nations Human Rights Council and a different horizon for world human rights perspectives, despite changes and difficulties, the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition continues its effort to push for Chinese human rights from within the United Nations.
On September 26, 2006, during the second session of the UN Human Rights Council, WEI Jingsheng, the Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition, and HUANG Ciping, the Secretary-General, were the featured speakers at a briefing in the UN that was hosted by the Transnational Radical Party. The title of the briefing was: "Promoting Freedom and Democracy in China". This was the only briefing devoted to the Chinese human rights condition during the whole session. It lasted for about two hours.
This briefing was moderated by Mr. Matteo Mecacci, the UN representative of the Transnational Radical Party. The other speakers including Ms. ZUO Liping, as a witness to the Chinese government's human rights suppressions, along with the family tragedies induced by such suppression; and Mr. David Matas, a long-time human rights lawyer, on the subject of illegal organ harvesting, especially of the FaLunGong practitioners.
Ms. Huang spoke about the details of the recent deterioration of the Chinese human rights condition, as well as the recently arrests and heavy sentences of the human rights defenders and democracy advocators. She called on the audience, the United Nations, as well as the international society to pay attention and actively engage and apply pressure to the Chinese government, in an effort to improve the Chinese human rights condition.
Mr. Wei presented the prospect of the Chinese human rights condition, and analyzed the internal web between human rights, trade, and world peace. In particular, he urged the international society to realize that the lifting of the European Union's arms embargo to China would ultimately contribute to a war in Asia, and subsequently to put Europe's own peace at risk.
Several of the audience asked questions near the end of the briefing. Some news media also came to the briefing and interviewed Mr. Wei afterwards.
