Basic Organization Information
Dui Hua Foundation
- Also Known As:
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Dui Hua
- Physical Address:
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San Francisco, CA
94108
- EIN:
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94-3327519
- Web URL:
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www.duihua.org
- Blog URL:
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www.duihuahrjournal.org/
- NTEE Category:
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Q International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security
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Q70 International Human Rights
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Q International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security
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Q01 Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
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Q International, Foreign Affairs, and National Security
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Q23 International Exchanges
- Year Founded:
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1999
- Ruling Year:
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1999
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Mission Statement
<p>Dui Hua is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that brings clemency and better treatment to at-risk detainees through promotion of universally recognized human rights in well-informed, mutually respectful dialogue with China. Focusing on political and religious prisoners, juvenile justice, women in prison, and issues in criminal justice, our work rests on the premise that positive change is realized through constructive relationships and exchange.</p>
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<p>Dui Hua advances its mission through human rights advocacy, research, expert exchange, publications, and community engagaement.</p> <p>Dui Hua engages in and facilitiates dialogues with China that advance the rights of at-risk detainees. Dui Hua enjoys Special Consultative Status with the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council and is the only independent NGO focused on human rights in China to have such status. </p> <p>Dui Hua delves into internet and library resources worldwide to find information about prisoner cases, regulations, and trends relevant to mass incidents and at-risk detainees. It maintains one of the world's largest databases of political and religious detainees in China, and a database of mass incidents in China.</p> <p>Dui Hua organizes expert exchanges among criminal justice practitioners and scholars, China's Supreme People's Court, and US judges to advances transparency, mutual understanding and improvements in the lives of at-risk detainees.</p> <p>Dui Hua shares research findings and prectical experience through various publications, the media, outreach events, and talks at numerous universities and public affairs forums throughout the world.</p> <br />
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Leadership
Mr. John Kamm
Term:
Since
Apr
1999
Profile:
<p align="justify">John Kamm is an American businessman and human rights campaigner active in China since 1972. He is the founder and chairman of The Dui Hua Foundation. Kamm was awarded the Department of Commerce’s Best Global Practices Award by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights by President George W. Bush in 2001. In September 2004, Kamm received a MacArthur Fellowship for “designing and implementing an original approach to freeing prisoners of conscience in China.” Kamm is the first businessman to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.</p> <p align="justify">Since his first intervention on behalf of a Chinese prisoner in May 1990, Kamm has made more than 100 trips to China to engage the government in a dialogue on human rights, focusing on the treatment of prisoners and conditions in prisons. He has made 10 visits to Chinese prisons and has submitted requests for information on more than 1,000 prisoners. In the words of The New York Times, “No other person or organization in the world, including the State Department, has helped more Chinese prisoners.”</p> <p align="justify">Kamm received a B.A. (1972) from Princeton University and an M.A. (1975) from Harvard University. He was the Hong Kong correspondent and representative of the National Council for US-China Trade (1975-1979) and President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong in 1990. He managed Occidental Chemical Company’s business in China and the Far East from 1986 to 1991.</p>
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- Budget:
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- Category:
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International, Foreign Affairs & National Security
- Population Served:
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General Public/Unspecified
Program Description:
<div><strong>Political & Religious Prisoners
</strong></div><div>Dui Hua’s prisoner-advocacy work began as a project to uncover the names of activists jailed during the crackdown on the pro-democracy demonstrations that culminated on June 4, 1989, with the Chinese army’s massacre of protesters in Tiananmen Square. Over the years, Dui Hua’s scope has broadened to encompass all individuals detained for the non-violent expression of their beliefs. Chinese activists are currently facing the largest crackdown on dissent since the founding of the PRC.
</div><div> </div><div><strong>Juvenile Justice
</strong></div><div>Juvenile justice reform has become a priority for the Chinese government. Many reformative steps have already taken place, and a draft amendment of the Criminal Procedure Law, announced in August 2011, introduces a section devoted to juvenile cases. That said, there is still much to be done to meet the demands of the 1985 UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (the Beijing Rules). Juveniles need a justice system that is geared toward treatment rather than incarceration. (Photo credit: Supreme People’s Court)
</div><div> </div><div><strong>Women in Prison
</strong></div><div>Women are the world’s fastest-growing prisoner demographic, estimated to account for between 2 and 10 percent of national prison populations. In China, more than 5 percent of individuals in prisons run by the Ministry of Justice are women, and the number of incarcerated women is growing faster than that of incarcerated men. If the rate of growth registered in 2009 is maintained, China’s prisons will hold nearly 100,000 women prisoners by the middle of 2012. (Photo credit: Sichuan News Agency)</div><div> </div><div>
<strong>Criminal Justice
</strong></div><div>When there is little presumption of innocence and much support for retributive justice, everyone in conflict with the law is at risk. In order to protect internationally recognized human rights and ensure the humanitarian treatment of people at odds with the law, Dui Hua focuses on criminal justice issues ranging from criminal procedures to capital punishment.
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Granted "Special Consultative Status" by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 2005, the only NGO focused on human rights in China to receive such status.
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