{"id":1114,"date":"2008-09-27T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T14:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2008-09-27T15:05:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T14:05:39","slug":"the-human-cost-of-chinas-economic-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"The human cost of China&#8217;s economic miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of China&#8217;s remarkable economic development has been achieved at the expense of the basic rights of millions of former state-owned enterprise workers, states a new report released by the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin and Canada&#8217;s International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, commonly known as Rights &#038; Democracy.<br \/>\n&#8220;No Way Out: Worker Activism in China&#8217;s State-Owned Enterprise Reforms&#8221; is based on five years of research. It draws extensively on China Labour Bulletin&#8217;s litigation in defence of worker&#8217;s rights.<br \/>\nThe publication studies the many ways the restructuring and privatisation of China&#8217;s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years have violated the human rights of the workers laid-off in the process. Violations documented include the systematic exclusion of former SOE workers from official channels of redress, criminalisation of labour protests, and the denial of workers&#8217; rights to social security, to an adequate standard of living, to freedom of association and to freedom from arbitrary detention.<br \/>\nYou can access the report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clb.org.hk\/en\/node\/100311\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of China&#8217;s remarkable economic development has been achieved at the expense of the basic rights of millions of former state-owned enterprise workers, states a new report released by the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin and Canada&#8217;s International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, commonly known as Rights &#038; Democracy. &#8220;No Way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}