长沙富能创办人之一程渊。
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长沙富能机构三位公益人士程渊、刘永泽、小吴被国家安全部门刑拘一事持续在国内国际产生反响。北京时间7月31日,一封由61个国际机构联名的呼吁信发往联合国艾滋病规划署项目协调委员会中国代表团,呼吁中国立即释放程渊、刘永泽及小吴,并撤销对他们的所有控罪。联名信还发往了联合国艾滋病规划署、联合国多个人权工作组、全球基金等机构的负责人。
这61个联名机构包括全球艾滋病毒感染者网络、纳尔逊·曼德拉结核病和艾滋社区信息和资源中心、人权观察等,来自亚洲、非洲、拉丁美洲、加勒比地区、以及东欧等的数十个国家。超过三分之二的机构工作在抗击艾滋病第一线。在联名信上签名的还有129位个人。
联名信介绍了长沙三位公益人士被抓捕事件。7月22日星期一,程渊和两位同事刘永泽及小吴均告失踪。国家安全部门的警官随后联系上刘永泽的律师,称刘永泽被指控“涉嫌颠覆国家政权罪”。程渊的妻子施明磊和程渊的公益机构全无关系,但她亦被羁押及审问,并被以“涉嫌颠覆国家政权罪”监视居住。
联名信表示,长沙富能的程渊、刘永泽和小吴就终止对艾滋病感染者的歧视、推进健康权和残疾人权利做了重要的工作。程渊在过去十年代理了一系列关于艾滋病感染者及其他健康权利的突破性的影响力诉讼——首先在南京天下公机构、后来作为长沙富能机构的联合创办人。其中,他的两个在2013年及2016年的里程碑式的诉讼,为遭受艾滋歧视而失去工作的两位老师争取到了赔偿。程渊亦代理了反乙肝歧视的诉讼、为残疾人权利作了有力的倡议、呼吁结束一胎化政策,促进政府信息公开和法治,及进行了更多其他的工作。
联名信指出,作为联合国艾滋病规划署的管理委员会的主席,中国在全球对艾滋病的反应中扮演着关键的领导角色。艾滋病规划署建议各国资助和支持与艾滋病相关的法律服务,以减少污名和歧视,全球基金并承诺在多个国家扩大这些工作——这正是长沙富能的专业领域。作为联合国艾滋病规划署项目协调委员会的主席,中国不仅要捍卫、而且要为世界树立一个正面的榜样去促进联合国就结束艾滋病和终止歧视的承诺。 中国应该嘉奖和宣传长沙富能的工作,给国际社会树立一个的良好示范,而不是惩罚它。
联署这封呼吁信的Meg Davis博士是日内瓦Graduate Institute的高级研究员、资深艾滋病问题专家,Meg Davis表示:“全世界正在竞相努力在2030年之前终结艾滋,包括零歧视的目标。中国应该引领这一全球性的竞逐,而不是浪费时间监禁其最好的反歧视活动家。 我知道程渊个人是一个忠诚无私的健康维权人士。 他应该是中国的年度最佳公益法律人士之一。他为什么会在监狱里?”
长沙富能机构的联合创办人杨占青表示,程渊、刘永泽、小吴等人的工作主要是促进弱势群体的权益。多个国家的61家机构联名信表明,程渊等人在维护艾滋感染者权利等健康权领域的贡献得到了广泛的认同,中国国家安全部门以政治罪名抓捕这些公益人士的做法在国际上已经造成了极其不良的影响。
联系人:长沙富能联合创办人杨占青
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To:
People’s Republic of China Delegation to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB)
Mr. Mingzhu Li, Commissioner, Beijing
Ms. Juan Li, Deputy Director, Geneva
Mr. Gang Xia, Deputy Director-General, Beijing
Mr. Yiyun Hu, Deputy Director, Center for STIs and AIDS, Beijing
Ms. Ying Shi, Director, Beijing
Mr. Dahai Qi, Counselor, Geneva
Mr. Xiaochen Yang, Second Secretary, Geneva
CC:
Ms. Gunilla Carlsson, Executive Director a.i., UNAIDS
Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director, UNWOMEN
Ms. Nazneen Damji, Senior Policy Advisor, Gender Equality, HIV, and Health, UNWOMEN
Ms. Mandeep Dhaliwal, Director, HIV, Health and Development, UNDP
Mr. Rico Gustav, Executive Director, Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+)
Ms. Michelle Bachelet Jeria, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Mr. Dainius Puras, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
Ms. Elina Steinerte, UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Mr. Saad Alfarargi, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development
Ms. Catalina Devandas Aguilar, UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Mr. Michel Forst, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
Mr. Luciano Hazan, UN Working Group on Enforced and Arbitrary Disappearances
Nicolas Chapuis, Ambassador of the European Union to China
Amakobe Sande, UNAIDS Country Director
Ambassador Deborah Birx, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
Mr. Peter Sands, Executive Director, The Global Fund
Ms. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership
Rt. Hon. Rory Stewart, M.P., UK Secretary of State for International Development
30 July 2019
Dear Mr. Li and colleagues,
We write to call on China to immediately release three prominent anti-discrimination lawyers and activists who are believed to be wrongly detained. Cheng Yuan, Liu Yongze and Xiao Wu of Changsha Funeng have done important work to end discrimination against people living with HIV and to advance the right to health and rights of persons with disabilities in China. As chair of the Programme Coordinating Board (PCB), which has set a goal of zero HIV-related discrimination by 2030, China should release these three legal activists.
Cheng Yuan has led over a decade of ground-breaking impact litigation on rights of people living with HIV and other health rights — first at Tianxiagong, and later as co-founder of Changsha Funeng. Two of his landmark cases, in 2013 and 2016, won damages for teachers who lost their jobs due to their HIV status. Cheng Yuan has also led work on hepatitis B discrimination litigation, advocated forcefully for the rights of persons with disabilities and for an end to China’s One Child Policy, and worked to promote freedom of information and rule of law, and more.
Last week, Cheng Yuan traveled to Hong Kong on personal and organizational business. On Monday, 22 July, Cheng and two colleagues, Liu Yongze and Xiao Wu, disappeared. Local police stated that they did not know their whereabouts, but CCTV recordings showed them being seized by a group of people. State Security then contacted a lawyer representing Liu Yongze, and said that Liu was facing charges of subverting state power. Cheng Yuan’s wife, Shi Minglei, has nothing to do with his NGO, but she was also detained and interrogated, and placed under residential surveillance under suspicion of subverting state power.
As chair of the governance board of UNAIDS, China plays a critical leadership role in the global HIV response. As you know, UN member states committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, and in doing so committed to ending HIV by 2030, to combating hepatitis, to promoting peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, and to achieving “zero discrimination” against people living with HIV. UNAIDS, the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), UNDP and UN WOMEN jointly launched the Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate All Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination. To achieve this, UNAIDS recommends countries finance and support HIV-related legal services to reduce stigma and discrimination, and the Global Fund has committed to scaling up this work in numerous countries — it is exactly the kind of work in which Changsha Funeng has expertise.
China has ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which upholds the right to health, as well as the Convention Against Torture, and has committed to many other human rights standards.
As chair of the UNAIDS PCB, China must not only uphold, but set a positive example to the world, of promoting UN commitments to end HIV and end discrimination. China should be rewarding and showcasing the work of Changsha Funeng as a good practice to the international community, not punishing it. We respectfully urge China to immediately release Cheng Yuan, Liu Yongze and Xiao Wu and drop all charges against them.
Sincerely,
Individuals
Abdul Jalil, Ahmad Kamar Pilos
Abdullaev, Timur
Abramovska, Krystyna
Acharya, Ganesh
Ahmar, Morgane
Alaniz, Guillermina
Amoa Larby, Jerry
Amon, Joseph
Angelina, Namiba
Anna, Anna
Anthony, Maria Theresa
Atissime, Siname Armel
Bartlett, Sofia
Basri, Ahmad Yasin
Bhusan, Bista
Bosire, Stellah
Butler, Martyn
Caiveau, Herve
Carter, Caitlin
Carter, Michael
Charing, Gaby
Chen, Yan
Chernykh, Sergey
Chiu, Yi-chi
Citro, Brian
Choedon, Tsering
Colorado, Alberto
Craig, Tom
Dang, Gisa
Daniels, Colleen
Davis, Meg
de Jesus, Beto
Dell, Chris
Demeria, Jessica
Deva, Edona
Dussart, Jade
Dutfield, Graham
Eco, BJ
Elias, Egha
Franceschini, Ivan
Friedman, Samuel
Gelula, Mark
Gexha Bunjaku, Dafina
Golichenko, Mikhail
Gomes, J Carolyn
Gonsalves, Gregg
Green, Valerie
Grover, Anand
Gunthorp, Jonathan
Hansch, Gabriele
Hauser, Janika
Ho, Sik Ying Petula
Ho, Jennifer
Hussein, Hisham
Ibragimova, Oxana
Isaieva, Nataliia
Ivanov, Valery
Jiang, Tianyong
Kavanagh, Matthew
Kilicaslan, Zeki
Klepikov, Andriy
Ko, Marie
Kohlbrenner, Verena
Kozak, Igor
Kseniia, Shchenina
Kuzmenko, Igor
Laird, Douglas
Leung, Brian
Lombardo, Marc
Londeix, Pauline
Lunceford-Stevens, AlanTimothy
Lyon, Emmanuelle
Maher, Lisa
Mahesh, Prabha
Mahesh, Ananya
Marina, Avramenko
McKenna, Lindsay
Mckenzie, Jomain
Metzner, Karl
Meyer, Salome
Misharvili, Nikoloz
Morrison, Clare
Mugo, Wariara
Nibogora, Berry Didier
Nichols, Valerie
Njenga, Lucy Wanjiku
Odendal, Lesley
Okioma, Erick
Omurov, Nurbek
Orsekov, Daniyar
Owiti, Peter
Petaev, Sergey
Peter, Owiti
Petgrave, Fay
Rahman, Fifa
Ramanaidu, Tilak
Reid, Gavin
Reitz, Cheryl
Rivera, Krystyna
Ruiz, Miriam
Saavedra, Jorge
Sanderson, Emily
Sandhu, Och
Santiago, Luis
Satterthwaite, Margaret
Sembereka, MacDonald
Sesay, Abdulai Abubakarr
Shant, Joshi
Sharma, Aditi
Sitnik, Volha
Solomon, Wambua
Stulikova, Alexandra
Swan, Tracy
Talkmore Taurai, Mazorodze
Thangvanglal, Kipgen
Tkachuk, Vitalii
Tsang, Shirley
Tumasov, Mikhail
von Schoen-Angerer, Dr. Tido
Vyirva, Valeriya
Wang, Qingming
White, Tish
Wiessner, Peter
Wong, Loretta
Wood, Penny
Yang, Zhanqing
Zeng, Yong
Zhang, Yihan
Zhao, Mengyang
致中国政府的呼吁信:䆁放长沙三名公益人士
联合国艾滋病规划署项目协调委员会中华人民共和国代表团
专员李明柱先生(北京)
副主任李娟(音)女士(日内瓦)
副总干事夏刚(音)先生(北京)
性病艾滋病中心副主任胡翼云先生(北京)
主任石英女士(北京)
参赞齐大海先生(北京)
二等秘书杨晓晨(音)先生(北京)
抄送:
联合国艾滋病规划署执行主任Gunilla Carlsson女士
联合国妇女署执行主任Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka女士
联合国妇女署性别平等、艾滋病和健康高级政策顾问Nazneen Damji女士
联合国开发计划署艾滋病、健康与发展小组主任Mandeep Dhaliwal女士,
全球艾滋病病毒感染者网络(GNP +)执行主任Rico Gustav先生
联合国人权事务高级专员Michelle Bachelet Jeria女士
联合国健康权问题特别报告员Dainius Puras先生
联合国任意羁押问题工作组Elina Steinerte女士
联合国发展权问题特别报告员 Saad Alfarargi 先生
联合国人权捍卫者问题特别报告员Michel Forst先生
联合国强迫和任意失踪问题工作组Luciano Hazan先生
联合国残疾人权利问题特别报告员Catalina Devandas Aguilar女士
欧盟驻华大使Nicolas Chapuis先生
联合国艾滋病规划署国家主任Amakobe Sande
美国全球艾滋病协调员Deborah Birx大使
全球基金执行董事Peter Sands先生
终止肺结核伙伴执行主任Lucica Ditiu女士
英国国际发展大臣Rory Stewart议员
李明柱先生及各位同事:
我们本次致信呼吁中国立即释放3位知名反歧视公益倡导者,我们相信他们正被错误羁押。长沙富能的程渊、刘永泽和小吴就终止对艾滋病感染者的歧视、推进健康权和残疾人权利做了重要的工作。联合国艾滋病规划署方桉协调委员会设订了在2030年达到零艾滋歧视的目标,作为该委员会的主席,中国应释放该三名公益人士。
程渊在过去十年代理了一系列关于艾滋病感染者及其他健康权利的突破性的影响力诉讼——首先在南京天下公机构、后来作为长沙富能机构的联合创办人。其中,他的两个在2013年及2016年的里程碑式的诉讼,为遭受艾滋歧视而失去工作的两位老师争取到了赔偿。程渊亦代理了反乙肝歧视的诉讼、为残疾人权利作了有力的倡议、呼吁结束一胎化政策,促进政府信息公开和法治,及进行了更多其他的工作。
两周前,程渊曾赴香港处理公私事务。7月22日星期一,程渊和两位同事,刘永泽及小吴均告失踪。在家属前往寻人时,当地警方称不清楚三人的去向, 但监控录像显示他们被一群人带走。国家安全部门的警官随后联系上刘永泽的律师,并指刘永泽被指控“涉嫌颠覆国家政权罪”。程渊的妻子施明磊和程渊的公益机构全无关系,但她亦被羁押及审问,并被以“涉嫌颠覆国家政权罪”监视居住。
作为联合国艾滋病规划署的管理委员会的主席,中国在全球对艾滋病的反应中扮演着关键的领导角色。如您所知 ,联合国成员国于2015年订下了「2030年可持续发展议程」,其中包括于2030年结束艾滋病、抗击肝炎、促进和平及包容的社会以利于可持续发展、并实现艾滋病零歧视。 艾滋病规划署,全球艾滋病毒感染者网络(GNP +),联合国开发计划署和联合国妇女署联合发起了消除一切形式的艾滋病相关污名和歧视的全球伙伴行动。 为实现这一目标,艾滋病规划署建议各国资助和支持与艾滋病相关的法律服务,以减少污名和歧视,全球基金并承诺在多个国家扩大这些工作——这正是长沙富能的专业领域。
中国已经批准了《经济、社会和文化权利国际公约》,其中就包括健康权。中国也已经批准了《禁止酷刑公约》等人权公约。作为联合国艾滋病规划署项目协调委员会的主席,中国不仅要捍卫、而且要为世界树立一个正面的榜样去促进联合国就结束艾滋病和终止歧视的承诺。 中国应该嘉奖和宣传长沙富能的工作,给国际社会树立一个的良好示范,而不是惩罚它。
我们敬请中国立即释放程渊、刘永泽及小吴,并撤销对他们的所有控罪。
(公益线索,义务提供,欢迎关注、报道,2019年7月31日)