According to the NED Annual Report for 2004, the
following US Government funds were allocated by the US Congress and dispersed
by the NED for programs in China:
Legal Rights Education
$115,000*
To carry out several programs of legal education and rights awareness. Grantees will use media outreach, conduct workshops and produce publications to increase public awareness of existing international standards and Chinese laws designed to protect citizen rights. Grantees will also provide some direct legal aid and engage in advocacy promoting accountability, transparency and rule of law.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$200,705
To support the work of the China Labour Bulletin to educate workers in China about worker and trade union rights. The project will include a Chinese-language website that provides comprehensive information about the labor situation in China and support for a legal aid project that offers constructive approaches to dispute settlement in worker compensation and other labor law-related cases.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$125,000*
To support a pilot program undertaken by China Labour Bulletin promoting labor rights information and assistance for rural Chinese workers. Activities will include two research reports analyzing Chinese labor and trade union laws.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$65,160
To support an online center for the collection and dissemination of information relating to workers' rights in China. The project will also distribute an email newsletter containing information about developments in China's labor community.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$70,000*
To support the work of China Labor Watch in maintaining a bilingual website that serves as an information clearinghouse on labor issues in China. China Labor Watch will collect information from its labor network and a variety of other sources inside and outside of China. Information will additionally be distributed by email in Chinese and English.
Beijing Spring Magazine
$129,000*
To publish the monthly Chinese-language magazine Beijing Spring, featuring analysis and commentary by authors inside and outside China regarding political developments, social issues and the prospects for democratization in China. Beijing Spring will also engage in a new initiative to work together with Uyghur democracy activists to increase awareness among Chinese communities, in China and abroad, of the dire restrictions on freedoms in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$93,834
To engage private-sector participation in substantive dialogue on the policy changes necessary for the development of a transparent and law-based free-market system in China. CIPE will support a series of policy discussion forums and an online policy journal, in cooperation with the Center for Private Economic Studies.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$85,128
To support the work of the China Center for Economic Research to maintain an electronic economics information network (CENET) and to facilitate greater exchange of reform-oriented ideas and proposals among Chinese economists.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$83,970
To support an analysis of the current status of private enterprises in China. The project will include an advocacy campaign to demonstrate the need for China to proceed with well-regulated privatization and hold a conference to discuss China's private economy and privatization.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$82,032
To assist the work of the Public Participation Support Center, a Beijing-based center promoting public participation in government and public affairs, under the auspices of the Beijing University Law School. The Center will research and publish a series of in-depth studies of experiments in procedures for public participation in policy-making put in place by local government agencies, draft model rules for procedures for public participation and distribute its model rules broadly.
$115,000*
To carry out several programs of legal education and rights awareness. Grantees will use media outreach, conduct workshops and produce publications to increase public awareness of existing international standards and Chinese laws designed to protect citizen rights. Grantees will also provide some direct legal aid and engage in advocacy promoting accountability, transparency and rule of law.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$200,705
To support the work of the China Labour Bulletin to educate workers in China about worker and trade union rights. The project will include a Chinese-language website that provides comprehensive information about the labor situation in China and support for a legal aid project that offers constructive approaches to dispute settlement in worker compensation and other labor law-related cases.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$125,000*
To support a pilot program undertaken by China Labour Bulletin promoting labor rights information and assistance for rural Chinese workers. Activities will include two research reports analyzing Chinese labor and trade union laws.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$65,160
To support an online center for the collection and dissemination of information relating to workers' rights in China. The project will also distribute an email newsletter containing information about developments in China's labor community.
American Center for International Labor Solidarity
$70,000*
To support the work of China Labor Watch in maintaining a bilingual website that serves as an information clearinghouse on labor issues in China. China Labor Watch will collect information from its labor network and a variety of other sources inside and outside of China. Information will additionally be distributed by email in Chinese and English.
Beijing Spring Magazine
$129,000*
To publish the monthly Chinese-language magazine Beijing Spring, featuring analysis and commentary by authors inside and outside China regarding political developments, social issues and the prospects for democratization in China. Beijing Spring will also engage in a new initiative to work together with Uyghur democracy activists to increase awareness among Chinese communities, in China and abroad, of the dire restrictions on freedoms in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$93,834
To engage private-sector participation in substantive dialogue on the policy changes necessary for the development of a transparent and law-based free-market system in China. CIPE will support a series of policy discussion forums and an online policy journal, in cooperation with the Center for Private Economic Studies.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$85,128
To support the work of the China Center for Economic Research to maintain an electronic economics information network (CENET) and to facilitate greater exchange of reform-oriented ideas and proposals among Chinese economists.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$83,970
To support an analysis of the current status of private enterprises in China. The project will include an advocacy campaign to demonstrate the need for China to proceed with well-regulated privatization and hold a conference to discuss China's private economy and privatization.
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$82,032
To assist the work of the Public Participation Support Center, a Beijing-based center promoting public participation in government and public affairs, under the auspices of the Beijing University Law School. The Center will research and publish a series of in-depth studies of experiments in procedures for public participation in policy-making put in place by local government agencies, draft model rules for procedures for public participation and distribute its model rules broadly.
Center for
International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
$50,252
To support the work of the Unirule Institute of Economics, an independent think-tank focused on cutting-edge policy analysis. The Institute will continue to conduct a series of biweekly symposia encouraging stimulating debate on issues of economic and system reform. The Institute's symposia target policy-makers and experts working to carry out institutional reform.
Center for Modern China
$204,000
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. The Center will also maintain a website to target an online youth audience in order to stimulate civic awareness while supporting China-based analysis and events for intellectuals and policy-makers.
China Aid Association
$60,000*
To undertake a program monitoring, documenting and analyzing the legal aspects of religious freedom in China. The Association will craft innovative uses of current elements of the Chinese legal framework to assist lawyers, advocates and scholars to protect religious believers and build support for fundamental reform of state treatment of religion in China.
China Information Center (CIC)
$480,000*
To promote independent media. The Center will serve as a Chinese-language Internet resource providing diverse views for Chinese audiences who are otherwise limited to Chinese government-controlled media. CIC will maintain an umbrella website, which contains news and commentary on politics, economics and social topics; distribute an email digest and maintain an English-language website.
China News Digest
$25,000*
To promote independent Chinese-language media. The China News Digest provides uncensored news about the prodemocracy movement in China through the production of its regular China-related news digests and by producing an on-line archive of information on the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Chinese Citizen Forum
$80,000*
To provide an open forum for public policy debate. The Forum will establish interactive online and email-based public policy forums that give rise to public proposals to the government on current policy concerns. The Center will also publish policy papers on priority concerns that arise.
Democratic China
$135,000
To publish online the monthly Chinese-language magazine Minzhu Zhongguo (Democratic China), which carries analysis regarding political development and commentary on social and cultural issues from authors inside and outside of China. Through a Hong Kong-based publisher, Democratic China will also publish and distribute three Chinese-language books on topics important to democratization in China.
Foundation for China in the 21st Century
$161,000
To support a variety of forums for liberal intellectuals and prodemocracy analysts to promote democratic values and political reform. The Foundation will sponsor a book series, an Internet-based periodical and a conference on inter-ethnic relations in the information age.
Human Rights in China, Inc. (HRIC)
$486, 561*
To monitor human rights developments in China. HRIC will develop benchmark indicators to assess China's human rights progress from 2004 through the 2008 Olympics and undertake research projects on the status of women and children's rights and the relationship between criminal elements and the Chinese government.
Independent Chinese PEN Center
$85,000*
To undertake a campaign promoting freedom of expression inside China. The Center's activities will include the publication of banned works, advocacy on behalf of imprisoned writers and journalists and campaigns calling attention to authors who suffer state censorship and persecution.
International Republican Institute (IRI)
$350,000
To conduct a program to promote electoral reform and foster a healthy civil society. IRI will sponsor China's first-ever group of independent monitors; participate in the drafting of a regulatory framework to govern campaigning in grassroots democratic elections and work to educate rural citizens about their legal rights. IRI will also assist local efforts to improve rural elections and strengthen autonomous farmers' organizations.
Laogai Research Foundation
$293,000*
To continue its extensive programs of research and publication. The Laogai Research Foundation will carry out investigation and documentation of the Chinese system of labor camps, while also undertaking a program of timely research exposing other human rights abuses committed by the Chinese government, including forced abortion.
Press Freedom Guardian
$88,000*
To promote independent Chinese-language media. The Press Freedom Guardian will continue to provide objective prodemocracy news and information about China through the distribution of a newspaper via the Internet, email and paper copies.
Uyghur American Association (UAA)
$75,000*
To improve the quality and availability of reporting on the human rights situation of Uyghurs. UAA will research, document and draw international attention to the underreported rights abuses that affect the residents of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
$50,252
To support the work of the Unirule Institute of Economics, an independent think-tank focused on cutting-edge policy analysis. The Institute will continue to conduct a series of biweekly symposia encouraging stimulating debate on issues of economic and system reform. The Institute's symposia target policy-makers and experts working to carry out institutional reform.
Center for Modern China
$204,000
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. The Center will also maintain a website to target an online youth audience in order to stimulate civic awareness while supporting China-based analysis and events for intellectuals and policy-makers.
China Aid Association
$60,000*
To undertake a program monitoring, documenting and analyzing the legal aspects of religious freedom in China. The Association will craft innovative uses of current elements of the Chinese legal framework to assist lawyers, advocates and scholars to protect religious believers and build support for fundamental reform of state treatment of religion in China.
China Information Center (CIC)
$480,000*
To promote independent media. The Center will serve as a Chinese-language Internet resource providing diverse views for Chinese audiences who are otherwise limited to Chinese government-controlled media. CIC will maintain an umbrella website, which contains news and commentary on politics, economics and social topics; distribute an email digest and maintain an English-language website.
China News Digest
$25,000*
To promote independent Chinese-language media. The China News Digest provides uncensored news about the prodemocracy movement in China through the production of its regular China-related news digests and by producing an on-line archive of information on the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Chinese Citizen Forum
$80,000*
To provide an open forum for public policy debate. The Forum will establish interactive online and email-based public policy forums that give rise to public proposals to the government on current policy concerns. The Center will also publish policy papers on priority concerns that arise.
Democratic China
$135,000
To publish online the monthly Chinese-language magazine Minzhu Zhongguo (Democratic China), which carries analysis regarding political development and commentary on social and cultural issues from authors inside and outside of China. Through a Hong Kong-based publisher, Democratic China will also publish and distribute three Chinese-language books on topics important to democratization in China.
Foundation for China in the 21st Century
$161,000
To support a variety of forums for liberal intellectuals and prodemocracy analysts to promote democratic values and political reform. The Foundation will sponsor a book series, an Internet-based periodical and a conference on inter-ethnic relations in the information age.
Human Rights in China, Inc. (HRIC)
$486, 561*
To monitor human rights developments in China. HRIC will develop benchmark indicators to assess China's human rights progress from 2004 through the 2008 Olympics and undertake research projects on the status of women and children's rights and the relationship between criminal elements and the Chinese government.
Independent Chinese PEN Center
$85,000*
To undertake a campaign promoting freedom of expression inside China. The Center's activities will include the publication of banned works, advocacy on behalf of imprisoned writers and journalists and campaigns calling attention to authors who suffer state censorship and persecution.
International Republican Institute (IRI)
$350,000
To conduct a program to promote electoral reform and foster a healthy civil society. IRI will sponsor China's first-ever group of independent monitors; participate in the drafting of a regulatory framework to govern campaigning in grassroots democratic elections and work to educate rural citizens about their legal rights. IRI will also assist local efforts to improve rural elections and strengthen autonomous farmers' organizations.
Laogai Research Foundation
$293,000*
To continue its extensive programs of research and publication. The Laogai Research Foundation will carry out investigation and documentation of the Chinese system of labor camps, while also undertaking a program of timely research exposing other human rights abuses committed by the Chinese government, including forced abortion.
Press Freedom Guardian
$88,000*
To promote independent Chinese-language media. The Press Freedom Guardian will continue to provide objective prodemocracy news and information about China through the distribution of a newspaper via the Internet, email and paper copies.
Uyghur American Association (UAA)
$75,000*
To improve the quality and availability of reporting on the human rights situation of Uyghurs. UAA will research, document and draw international attention to the underreported rights abuses that affect the residents of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.
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