Brattin, Kelsey Rae

Liubicich, Elizabeth

Munro, Faculty Advisor, William

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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2012, 23rd Annual JWP ConferenceApr 14th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMBuilding a Case for Human rights Advocacy: theGuangcheng CaseElizabeth LiubicichIllinois Wesleyan UniversityKelsey Rae BrattinIllinois Wesleyan UniversityWilliam Munro, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Elizabeth Liubicich; Kelsey Rae Brattin; and William Munro, Faculty Advisor, "Building a Case for Human rightsAdvocacy: the Guangcheng Case" (April 14, 2012). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. Paper 4.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2012/oralpres8/4THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE – APRIL 2012    Oral Presentation  O8.4    BUILDING A CASE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY:  THE GUANGCHENG CHEN CASE    Elizabeth Liubicich, Kelsey “Rae” Brattin, and William Munro* Political Science Department, Illinois Wesleyan University     A group of students and faculty members at Illinois Wesleyan University have undertaken an advocacy project in cooperation with Scholars at Risk, an institution dedicated to “promoting academic freedom and defending the human rights of scholars worldwide.”1 Illinois Wesleyan’s chosen scholar is Guangcheng Chen, a self-educated, Chinese human rights lawyer. Chen received national recognition after his publication of a 2005 report detailing forced abortions and sterilizations in the Shandong Province of China.  Chen was subsequently arrested for organizing a mob to disrupt traffic, charges of suspicious legitimacy, and is now detained in house arrest even after the completion of his formal sentence. The aim of Illinois Wesleyan’s project is to bring attention to the violations of human rights toward Chen and his family while advocating for a national stance against his unlawful detention. This presentation will include our findings on the background and timeline of Chen’s specific charges, trial, and incarceration and the violations of human rights we believe were committed in each of these areas. Also included will be examples of our research methods and challenges of finding authoritative sources, the use of international and legal instruments to build an advocacy case for Chen. Discussion of our allies at Scholars at Risk, Human Rights in China, and Dui Hua will be included along with the progress and direction Illinois Wesleyan intends for the project to take.                                                       1 Scholars at Risk Network. Web. 23 Mar. 2012. <http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/>. 

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