About CLW
CHINA LABOR WATCH
Who We Are
Founded in 2000, China Labor Watch is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Over the past 20 years, CLW has been dedicated to monitoring and reporting factory labor practices, advocating for worker rights, creating communities, building collective action capacities, and sharing knowledge with workers, communities, governments, and other partners.
VISION
We believe that all labor is deserving of dignity, fairness, and respect. We envision a world free of modern day slavery, where human labor is not exploited, coerced, or traded, and strive to protect the rights of Chinese workers around the world.
MISSION
We tirelessly work to confront and condemn labor exploitation. We partner work with civil society members to identify and fight forced labor and human trafficking crimes, equip workers with skill sets to end exploitation, build networks to encourage collective action, magnify the voices of workers, and investigate industries within the global supply chain that perpetuate workplace mistreatment and discrimination.
China Labor Watch in Numbers
U.S. Staff & Board of Directors
Li Qiang – Founder and Executive Director
Li Qiang
Illustration by Nigel Buchanan Source: The Wire China
Before moving to the United States in 2000, Li Qiang played a leading role in organizing networks of labor activists, researching factory labor conditions, and conducting worker education and legal assistance programs in China. Since founding CLW in 2000, he has led the organization to become a well-trusted source of information on Chinese labor conditions, the labor movement, and corporate supply chains in China. CLW’s investigative reports regularly appear in publications like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, and others. Li Qiang maintains close contact with activists, academics, and other colleagues in China and has guided programs at CLW aimed to directly assist workers and activists through training and advocacy. Li Qiang has testified on Chinese labor rights in the U.S. Congress four times. He also has contributed opinion pieces to China Youth Daily, South China Morning Post, Nanfeng Chuang, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and has been interviewed and referenced in The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, CNN, and others. In 2004, Li Qiang served as a visiting scholar at The Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University.
Brutus Li – Legal Advisor
Brutus Li graduated from Yale University with a degree in International Affairs and from New York University with a J.D. Mr. Li has extensive experience in the human rights field.
Dorothy J. Solinger, Board Member
Dr. Solinger is Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Irvine.
William J. Hurst, Board Member
Dr. Hurst is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.
Wenchi Yu, Board Member
Wenchi Yu is a non-resident fellow at Harvard
Jill Tucker, Board Secretary
Jill Tucker has three decades of experience in grant making and social compliance work.