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A Dialogue with China on Human Rights: A Personal Odyssey
John Kamm, the Founder and Executive Director of the Dui Hua Foundation, will speak about human rights in China at Harvard University.
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For more than 20 years, John Kamm has conducted a dialogue on human rights with the Chinese government, first as a business person and later as founder and executive director of The Dui Hua Foundation. He has intervened on behalf of hundreds of political and religious prisoners, all the while maintaining a good working relationship with central and local officials. In his remarks Kamm will reflect on some of the most important cases he has worked on, as well as briefing the audience on initiatives in areas including death penalty and juvenile justice reform. Kamm, who graduated with an A.M. in East Asian Studies from Harvard in 1975, has won two presidential awards for his human rights work, and is the only business person to have been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. 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.”
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