Democracy & Human Rights:Why Canadians Should Care about China with Martin Lee
Founding Chairman, Democratic Party of Hong Kong
Friday, March 13, 2015
The Vancouver Club
UBC Room, 3rd Floor 11:45 am Registration & Casual Lunch
12:15 pm Presentation & Discussion
1:30 pm Wrap Up
Online: www.leahcostello.com
Phone: 604-227-3563
$55 per ticket, plus GST
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China’s status as an economic powerhouse has shone the light of the world on its record of democracy and human rights. The most honest information channel on these issues remains open via Hong Kong, whose own democratic status requires continuous vigilance and defense.
In today’s interconnected global
environment, China’s actions internally
and towards Hong Kong have implications not only for the large Canadian
population living there, but also externally in regions where values are
imported through investment, trade and immigration.
The relationship between the rule
of law, democracy and the devolution of centralized power should be of concern
to every global citizen who practises democracy and cares about its future. How can we best defend and promote these
very Canadian values?
About the Speaker
At the forefront of the Chinese
democracy-building movement has been Martin Lee, founding chair of Hong Kong’s
largest and most popular political party, and a directly-elected legislator for
23 years.
A prominent and controversial
figure on the international stage, Lee’s
call for the overthrow of mainland China’s leadership in regards to their human
rights record has led to a ban on him visiting mainland China. Officials in
Beijing have labeled him a “running dog of the colonialists” while human rights
activists have named him the “father of democracy”.
Lee
has been awarded the International Human Rights Award by
the American Bar
Association, the Prize For Freedom by
the Liberal
International, the Democracy Award by the United
States' National Endowment
for Democracy and as the first non-European to receive the Schuman
Medal from the European Peoples
Party and European Democrats.
$55 per ticket, plus GST
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Online: www.leahcostello.com
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