Rose Wu Lo-sai

Career

Convener of the Civil Human Rights Front in 2002-04, an alliance of NGOs instrumental in organizing the rally on 1 July 2003, when over 500,000 people took to the streets to protest against government bureaucracy and the controversial draft National Security Bill, and organizing the pro-democracy rallies in 2003 and 2004.

First female executive committee member of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China, an alliance set up shortly after China’s Tiananmen pro-democracy movement in 1989

General secretary of the Hong Kong Women Christian Council from 1993 to 1998.

Principal of the Kindergarten at Shum Oi Church of the Church of Christ in China, actively promoting community care and grassroots community activities of the Church.

Works

• article

  • Human Rights is a Matter of Choice

    (“It is difficult to advocate the rights of these people i...)

    2001

• book

  • A Dissenting Church

    (A collection of the author's writings and presentations f...)

    2003

  • From East Europe to Hong Kong: The Communist Regime and the Church

    (In Chinese.)

    1990
  • One Country, Two Systems: a Ten-Year Experiment and Beyond 2007

Views

Social activism on issues relating to gender equity, social justice, political and civil rights, war and poverty.

References

• Lo Sai “Rose” Wu – China – Hong Kong SAR A profile on the World People's Blog as part of the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize initiative, which nominated one thousand female peace activists for the Prize in 2005.
  2006