Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, Feb. 6, 1991

From: CND-EP <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 00:14:31 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP)  =====================
				February 6, 1991
 
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1. 2nd North America Conference on Human Rights in China:
   Chinese Orgnizations in E/P Area Being Invited.......................22

2. Many Mainland Chinese Encountering Visa Difficulties in Australia....15

3. Japan to Deport 1,000 Chinese Posing as Vietnamese Refugees..........30
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1. 2nd North America Conference on Human Rights in China:
   Chinese Orgnizations in E/P Area Being Invited
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Provided by CND-US Editor Zuofeng Li <[email-masked]>
Originally from: [email-masked]

CONFERENCE NEWS -- The Second N. American Community-Based Organization
Conference on Human Rights and Democracy in China is to be held in April, 1991
at the University of Toronta, Toronto, Canada.	With increasing worldwide
concern for human rights and democracy in China, the April Conference will
attract over 300 participants from major American cities, as well as from Hong
Kong, the Asia-Pacific and Europe. Invited speakers and resource persons
include world-renowned human rights activists, international human rights
organizations, Chinese students and worldwide pro-democracy groups, and
American and Canadian politicians and government officials. Community-based
organizations (CBO's) will meet together to: coordinate and formulate common
goals in advocating for human rights and democracy in China; reassess their
activities and directions since June 4th, 1989; and focus their collective
efforts to internationalize Chinese human rights issue. Information on the
conference can be obtained from NACCD CBO Conference, Toronto Association for
Democracy in China, Suite 407, 253 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R5,
CANADA. ([email-masked])
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2. Many Mainland Chinese Encountering Visa Difficulties in Australia
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>From: CND Correspondent in Australia ***@***.edu.au Fri Feb 1 1991

Many Chinese who are applying for the grant of resident status in Australia
ON STRONG HUMANITARIAN GROUND have been illegal in Australia since Feb. 1st,
1991. There are only two options for those people, said an Australian.
One is to apply 4-year special visa with medicare covering, working permission
in Australia and overseas traveling as many times and long as you like
(with the exclusion of PRC). Another is to wait for Dept. of Immigration to
process their application in the future without valid visa, working permission
and medicare covering (include Medibank Private). The government won't force
those people to go back to China. Most of them are healthy but it is hard to
believe they won't meet any accident. Let's pray for those people to have good
health and safe life. Also hope that they will be settled well in near future.
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3. Japan to Deport 1,000 Chinese Posing as Vietnamese Refugees
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>From:	CND Correspondent Wu, Fang  <[email-masked]>
Source:  AP, Feb. 1, 1991

Japan will deport more than 1,000 Chinese people posing as Vietnamese refugees
under a recent agreement with China's government, the Foreign Ministry said
Friday.

The Chinese will be sent home on a Chinese boat, but no date has been set,
said a ministry official, who by custom spoke on condition of anonymity.

Following a series of negotiations begun last fall by the two government, it
was agreed upon Wednesday that China would take the group, the official said.

China agreed ''from a viewpoint of mutual friendship'' although it argued that
some of the people were actually Indochinese who were only of Chinese descent,
he said.  They were among a total of 2,804 Chinese boat people who have
arrived in Japan in 1989 and 1990 posing as refugees from Vietnam, the
official said.	Of them, 1,778 have been sent back to China and 18 have fled
after landing in Japan.

In September 1989, Japan began a policy of screening boat people, saying it
would accept only those deemed to be fleeing political persecution and refuse
those who came seeking jobs or economic betterment.

There have been no Chinese boat people reported arriving in Japan since May.

According to Foreign Ministry statistics, a total of 12,726 Vietnamese
refugees have arrived in Japan since 1975.  Of them, 7,018 have been settled
in Japan and the rest in the United States, Canada, Australia, European
countries and others.
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