菲利姆·凯恩：“刘晓波的诺贝尔和平奖：变革的机遇还是障碍？”（2010年10月27日）

刘晓波的诺贝尔和平奖：变革的机遇还是障碍？

2010年10月27日

主讲人：菲利姆·凯恩（Phelim Kine），人权观察亚洲研究员

主持人：黎安友（Andrew Nathan），哥伦比亚大学政治学系教授

音频地址：http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/phelim_kine.mp3

黎安友：今天有幸邀请到人权观察（Human Rights Watch）驻香港工作的菲利姆·凯恩。我的介绍就此打住，让我们直奔主题。

凯恩：女士们先生们，非常感谢你们前来。刘晓波获得诺贝尔奖，使得中国及其人权纪录与环境加倍地举世瞩目，成为媒体的焦点。我想要谈谈这个问题，因为就如何能够在中国内部与外部引发有意义的变革而言，他的这次获奖既是个真正的机遇，又是个真正的挑战。但是要谈刘晓波，就必须要先谈一谈中国人权的大背景，以及情况如何到了现在这个地步，因为刘晓波的被捕、判刑、获奖，很大程度上只是整件事情的一小部分，反映了中国已经发生和正在发生的变化，以及就人权而言，过去四年中中国的人权状况如何在许多方面渐渐恶化。

Phelim Kine: "The Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize: Opportunity or Obstacle to Change?" (October 27, 2010)

The Liu Xiaobo Nobel Peace Prize
Opportunity or Obstacle to Change?

October 27, 2010

Speaker: Phelim Kine

Chair: Andrew Nathan

Audio clip: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/phelim_kine.mp3

NATHAN: Phelim Kine, who works with Human Rights Watch, is posted in their office in Hong Kong. I will keep the intro brief, and go right to it.

KINE: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming. I really appreciate it. Liu Xiaobo, and the Nobel win, has put China and China’s human rights record and environment squarely in the front of the world attention, media attention. And I want to talk about that, because it’s a real opportunity but also a real challenge in terms of how, from both inside and outside China, this award can be used as an attraction for meaningful change. But if I’m going to talk about Liu Xiaobo, it’s really important that I talk about the wider context in terms of human rights in China and how we have gotten to this, because Liu Xiaobo’s arrest, conviction, and Nobel is very much a piece in terms of how things have changed and are changing in China, and, with regard to human rights, how in many ways the human rights situation in China has deteriorated over the last four years.