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Democracy: China’s Charter 08

By Exchange Editor on 4th July 2009
Tagged As: Democracy, China, Charter 08

For those that have not seen this yet, Unlock Democracy’s predecessor organisation Charter 88 was both inspired by and launched in solidarity with the Czech and Slovak civic movement Charter 77.  Charter 77 has, in turn, inspired pro-democracy supporters in China to launch Charter 08 (零八宪章) on 10 December 2008 (the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

Here is the link to an English translation of Charter 08

1 Comment:

Interesting! I’m doing an internship at Unlock Democracy currently, its good to know the whole movement is having global repercussions.

KeepCalm&CarryOn's avatar KeepCalm&CarryOn on Sunday 5th July at 2:52 pm

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