Chai Ling

Two weeks ago, the world watched Chen Guangcheng escape.

Wearing a Nike track jacket and aviators, rural China's self-taught lawyer, advocate of women and the disabled, spoke to a camera in a curtained Beijing room. Visibly exhausted and unshaven, Chen, blind since the age of one, told of...

It reads like a scene straight out of an action movie.

This week, under cover of night, a blind political activist slipped past dozens of watchful guards, crossed several barricades, and climbed a wall to escape the confines of...

China says it has stepped up its efforts to rescue human trafficking victims over the past year, but the irony is inescapable: if the Chinese government had halted its harsh and brutal enforcement of the One-Child Policy during the past 30 years, human trafficking would be a much less severe...

Will Obama broach the subject of human rights with China's president?

The Chinese government boasts that it has "prevented" more than 400 million lives and plans to keep its One-Child Policy in place "for decades to come."

With the recent tragedies of Ma Jihong, a mother pregnant with her second...

Before Occupy Wall Street -- before Occupy Chicago, Los Angeles or Washington -- was "Occupy Tiananmen Square." I know because I was there, leading the student-fueled movement, and today I see glimpses of early Tiananmen in the Occupy Wall Street movement. My fellow students and I gathered in the square...