Han Donfang, Human Rights Defender and Founder of China Labour Bulletin in conversation with Professor Leïla Choukroune as part of the event 'Human Rights in the Fashion and Textiles Industry' which took place on 30th April 2019 at the University of Portsmouth in support of the Fashion Revolution campaign.

1. In Conversation with Han Dongfang
Prof. Dr. Leïla Choukroune
Professor of International Law and Director of the University
Thematic Area in Democratic Citizenship
University of Portsmouth

2. Contents
1. Looking Back and Forward
2. How it Started
3. Conversations
4. 30 Years of Changes
5. Collective Bargaining in Authoritarian Regime
6. 2015 Foreign NGO Law: a Turning Point
7. From China to India
8. Global Textile Revolution

3. Looking Back and Forward
• From Shanxi to Beijing
• A life “on the rail”
• Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation (BWAF): The People’s Republic of China first independent Trade
Union – Alternative to All China Federation of Trade Unions
• Tiananmen Square Protest and Crackdown – 4th June 1989 – 30th Anniversary
• Not only students… a role for workers ….
• Turning yourself to police…prison…sickness…
• The promise you made to yourself in 2009 and today

5. How it Started
• From the US to China and Hong Kong
• 1994: you establish China Labour Bulletin (CLB)

6. Conversations
Radio Show – Radio Free Asia
Recording Workers and Farmers Grievances

7. 30 Years of Changes
• Chinese Workers: the Fallen Elite
• Suffering and Grievances
• Fighting
• Strikes Map
• https://maps.clb.org.hk/strikes/en
No statistics .. Yet…
• The Tools

8. Collective Bargaining in Authoritarian
Regime
• What is Collective Bargaining?
• The Chinese Way?
• CLB experiments

9. 2015 Foreign NGO Law: a Turning
Point
• Going Backward?
• Going Forward?
• Civil Society in Authoritarian China

10. From China to India
• The move
• Asian Challenges

11. For a Global Textile Revolution
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12. Thank You
• “A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again, but
if he is peaceful and fearless then he is in truth called wise”
Buddha