The controversy surrounding the American Bar Association’s decision not to publish the memoirs of famed  human rights activist Teng Biao allegedly because it feared angering the Chinese government and jeopardizing its programs in the country points to a universal problem facing foreign businesses and organizations working in China. When are moral compromises appropriate? 

A proposed blanket detention indiscriminately assumes that all asylum claims are unmeritorious.

Here is a penetrating, disturbing report about the status of rights lawyers in China that appears in the February 1, 2016 edition of the American Bar Association Journal. 

The attacks published in China's state-sponsored news media pulled no punches. Wang Yu is an "arrogant convict of a woman," screamed an op-ed article in one major newspaper. Wang Yu is a "hypocritical and false lawyer." Wang Yu is a "shrew." In retrospect, the media assault against Wang, one of China’s leading human rights lawyers, should have come as no surprise—and it fore-shadowed things to come.

Foreign Policy article inside the fight over the American Bar Association's tepid condemnation of Beijing’s crackdown on lawyers and activists.

Civil rights lawyer and Justice Labs mentor Ilann Maazel's article on fighting terrorism without abandoning our values. 

Justice Labs mentor Lindsay Ernst directs an innovative program at the Univesity of Hong Kong called "Human Rights in Practice." This is an editorial her students wrote about their experiences working with "hard to place" children in Hong Kong's adoption system. 

The American Bar Association fails to protest arrested and disappeared rights lawyers. 

                                      Eleanor Roosevelt in 1948. You too can become a protector.

A group of elderly people gather in a park awaiting cooked rice from a church

Problem: Hong Kong's army of poorly paid street sweepers are being deprived of basic employment benefits by the government's policy of outsourcing its cleaning services.