January 31, 2026 This essay was first published on the website China Change, which contains a number of translations and essays by and about imprisoned scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong––his work and thought focusing on democracy, human rights, and the Citizens Movement, among other topics. Professor Anthony Spires book, Everyday Democracy, is a compelling complement … Continue reading On Doing Small Things Towards Change – A Book Review
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Unmasking the ‘Group of Friends in Defense of the United Nations Charter’ (10/9/2024)
Co-authored piece by Andréa Worden and Rana Siu Inboden in The Diplomat, 10/9/2024 Despite its name, this group, which includes many of the world’s most repressive regimes, is actually a coalition to undermine U.N. principles. https://thediplomat.com/2024/10/unmasking-the-group-of-friends-in-defense-of-the-united-nations-charter/
Missing Peng Shuai, No. 4 (3/8/25)
The theme for 2025 International Women’s Day is “For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” The emphasis on the word “ALL” immediately brings to mind the inclusion of women who are marginalized, disappeared, or otherwise deprived of “Rights, Equality, and Empowerment.” It’s thus a perfect day (but certainly not the only day) to remember Peng Shuai, the disappeared … Continue reading Missing Peng Shuai, No. 4 (3/8/25)
Missing Peng Shuai, No. 3 (9/2/24)
August 30, the International Day of the Disappeared, slipped by, and Peng Shuai remains disappeared. What follows are a few musings on the plight of the Chinese tennis star, offered in furtherance of the necessity of memory, and the importance of saying her name, in order to prevent her total erasure. We must continue asking: … Continue reading Missing Peng Shuai, No. 3 (9/2/24)
“Targeted Oppression of Women in China’s Genocide in East Turkistan,” Panelist for Discussion hosted by UHRP and WUC (March 8, 2022)
Silent Night in Changsha: Christmas Eve (1988)
As a young college grad in the late 1980s, I found myself teaching English in Changsha, Hunan, courtesy of the Yale-China Association. The first time I first heard David, an elegant professor who spoke impeccable English, talk in detail about his past was at the YCA Christmas Eve dinner in 1988. I knew that he … Continue reading Silent Night in Changsha: Christmas Eve (1988)
On Human Rights Day, Missing Peng Shuai 彭帅 (No. 2)
December 10 is Human Rights Day I’ve been thinking about Peng Shuai today, December 10, Human Rights Day. This year the date marks the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly; the 2023 theme is “Freedom, Equality and Justice for All.” Many of the rights enshrined in the UDHR–– which “everyone is … Continue reading On Human Rights Day, Missing Peng Shuai 彭帅 (No. 2)
Missing Peng Shuai 彭帅 (No. 1)
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” –– Milan Kundera Welcome to the first installment of what will be a series of occasional posts about the unfree and silenced Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. Despite the rhetorical pleas of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and its CEO and Chair, Steve Simon, that Peng … Continue reading Missing Peng Shuai 彭帅 (No. 1)
Uyghur Human Rights Project, “Forced Marriage of Uyghur Women: State Policies for Interethnic Marriages in East Turkistan” (11/16/22)
By Andréa J. Worden, Nuzigum Setiwaldi, Dr. Elise Anderson, Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, Louisa Greve, and Ben Carrdus https://uhrp.org/report/forced-marriage-of-uyghur-women/
Andréa J. Worden's Words 