We Have A Dream Global Summit

NGO Summit Highlights U.N. Human Rights

As the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York for its annual plenary sessions, just a few blocks uptown from U.N. Headquarters another type of summit was being held. “We’re hosting our own assembly where repression isn’t welcome,” stated YANG Jianli,...

Declaration of Dissidents for Universal Human Rights

Declaration of Dissidents for Universal Human Rights United Nations, New York, September 22, 2011 We, former prisoners of conscience, dissidents, victims of torture, persecution, and repression, fighters for freedom, democracy and the dignity of all human beings,...

Speech at We Have a Dream: Global Summit against Discrimination and Persecution

By: YANG Jianli Sept. 21, 2011, New York Dear friends, today we live in a land of shadows. Stark shadows cast by what is worst in us on what is best. In 1945, as one of the worst convulsions of violence in the history of mankind drew to a close, the United Nations was...