The Leitner Center for International Law and Justice and the Committee to Support Chinese Lawyers is pleased to host a discussion with Duan Yi, a leading Chinese labor rights lawyer, and Han Dongfang, the founder and director of China Labor Bulletin. Join us over lunch for an update on the latest developments in labor rights and the changing situation on the ground in China. The speakers’ bios are below. RSVP is required, as space will be limited.

RSVP to: leitnercenter@law.fordham.edu.
A light lunch will be served.

SPEAKERS:

Duan Yi is a leading labor rights lawyer in China and a part-time professor at Renmin University of China Law School. He co-founded China’s first partnership law firm in 1988 and co-founded China’s first migrant workers’ rights law firm, Lao Wei, in 2005. Lao Wei law firm works to safeguard workers’ rights. Its lawyers have handled more than 2,000 cases involving migrant workers. In recent years, Duan Yi has advised a large numbers of workers involved in various forms of collective negotiations with employers, and has emerged as a key advocate of collective bargaining in China.

Han Dongfang is the founder and director of China Labor Bulletin (CLB). He has been an advocate for workers’ rights in China for more than two decades. He first came to international prominence during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 when, as a railway worker, he helped set up China’s first independent trade union, the Beijing Autonomous Workers’ Federation. In 1993, he was expelled to Hong Kong, where the following year he set up CLB in order to promote labor rights in mainland China. In addition to his work at CLB, Han is on the board of Human Rights in China. He also has his own radio talk show on Radio Free Asia, during which he conducts regular interviews with workers and farmers.

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