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Causes: International, International Human Rights
Mission: Dui hua foundation is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that brings clemency and better treatment to at-risk detainees through promotion of universally recognized human rights in well-informed, mutually respectful dialogue with china. Focusing on political and religious prisoners, juvenile justice, women in prison, and issues in criminal justice, our work rests on the premise that positive change is realized through constructive relationships and exchange.
Programs: Dui hua advances its mission through human rights advocacy, research, expert exchange, publications, and community engagaement. Dui hua engages in and facilitiates dialogues with china that advance the rights of at-risk detainees. Dui hua enjoys special consultative status with the united nations' economic and social council and is the only independent ngo focused on human rights in china to have such status. Dui hua delves into internet and library resources worldwide to find information about prisoner cases, regulations, and trends relevant to mass incidents and at-risk detainees. It maintains one of the world's largest databases of political and religious detainees in china, and a database of mass incidents in china. Dui hua organizes expert exchanges among criminal justice practitioners and scholars, china's supreme people's court, and us judges to advances transparency, mutual understanding and improvements in the lives of at-risk detainees. Dui hua shares research findings and practical experience through various publications, the media, outreach events, and talks at numerous universities and public affairs forums throughout the world.