Human rights in China

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Bob Carr, Director, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney

Elaine Pearson, Australian Director, Human Rights Watch

Tom Switzer, Presenter, ABC Radio National

This is a summary of 'Human Rights in China', Between the Lines, ABC Radio National, July 27 2017.

In light of the death of Nobel laureate and Chinese political dissident Liu Xiaobo, how can the West help promote human rights in China?

Professor Bob Carr, Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI) at the University of Technology Sydney, joined Elaine Pearson, Australian Director of Human Rights Watch to discuss Liu Xiaobo's legacy and other issues associated with China's human rights record with presenter Tom Switzer on ABC Radio National's Between the Lines.

Professor Carr said, '[H]uge advances in living standards and freedoms aren't a substitute for...the indispensable principle of the contestability of political power'. 

Listen to the full program here.

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Bob Carr is Director of the Australia-China Relations Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. He is a former foreign minister and was the longest serving premier of NSW.