Tuesday, September 20, 2016

NED Grants in China in 2002

According to the NED Annual Report for 2002, the following US Government funds were allocated by the US Congress and dispersed by the NED for programs in China:

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$198,063
To assist democratic unions and labor rights organizations in Hong Kong that are working to protect worker and union rights in the South China region.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$57,202
To provide support for a bilingual Web site that serves as a basic information clearinghouse for activists and scholars involved with labor issues in China.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$60,517
To support the Wei Jingsheng Foundation’s establishment of a center for the collection and dissemination of information relating to workers’ rights in China.

American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$180,480
To enable labor-rights organizations to educate workers in China about worker and trade-union rights, labor standards, and democracy issues, and to gather, analyze, and disseminate information on industrial relations and the status of trade-union rights in China.

Beijing Spring Magazine
$60,000*
To publish the monthly Chinese-language magazine Beijing Spring, which carries analysis and commentary by authors inside and outside China regarding political developments, social issues, and the prospects for democratization in China.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$92,936
To support the National Economic Research Institute in conducting a series of workshops to publicize the Institute’s study on economic freedom in China and to promote public understanding of the link between economic freedom and economic development.

Center for International Private Enterprise 
$97,573
To support the China Center for Economic Research in expanding an electronic economics-information network and facilitating greater exchange of reform-oriented ideas and proposals among Chinese economists.

Center for International Private Enterprise
$49,683
To support the Unirule Institute of Economics in conducting biweekly symposia on issues related to China’s transition to a market economy, and in reproducing and distributing symposium papers.

Center for Modern China
$115,000*
To publish Modern China Studies, a quarterly Chinese-language journal of economic and social-science research concerning liberal, democratic solutions to contemporary policy questions in China.

China Information Center
$400,000*
To establish and maintain a Chinese-language Web site that features independent news and analyses of world events and domestic Chinese developments mainland and overseas Chinese.

Democratic China Magazine
$100,000
To publish its monthly Chinese-language Internet magazine on politics, society, and culture, promoting democracy and pluralism in China.

Foundation for China in the 21st Century
$160,000*
To carry out a multifaceted program of research, publications, and seminars on questions of interethnic relations, education, and democracy in China.

Human Rights in China
$300,000
To be used towards core support for its program of human rights information-gathering, reporting, publicity, and advocacy; to support victims of political persecution; and for the production and circulation of materials informing Chinese citizens about their rights.

International Republican Institute
$400,000
To support electoral reform at the village level, promotion and development of legal-aid programs at the national and provincial levels, legislative and public-policy-implementation reform at the national level, and a project to promote the broadening of Chinese elections.

Laogai Research Foundation
$261,000*
To conduct an extensive research and publication program on the Chinese forced-labor prison camps (laogai) and to investigate and document other human rights violations occurring in China.

National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
$205,076
To organize resources and activities, in partnership with the Center for the Study of People’s Congress and Foreign Legislatures at Peking University Law School, in order to educate Chinese legislative members and staff, researchers, and students about democratic legislative norms and processes; and to provide materials, direct technical assistance, and other resources to Hong Kong organizations advocating for democratic reform in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

Press Freedom Guardian Newspaper
$88,000*
To publish its Chinese-language newspaper, which covers issues related to human rights, democratization, and the activities of the Chinese democracy movement and which is disseminated in China and abroad through print copies, e-mail subscriptions, and a Web site.

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