"Brad Adams" is the executive director of the Asian division of Human Rights Watch and has been in the position since 2002. Adams worked in Cambodia for five years prior to his work at Human Rights Watch, he was the senior lawyer for the Cambodia field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He also worked as the legal advisor to the Cambodian parliament's human rights committee. Adams is a member of the State Bar of California and worked as a legal aid lawyer in California. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

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I've been with some pretty decent teams here, ... but the difference is we have leadership across the board at all positions, something we lacked in the past.

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China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power. But continuing to offer unconditional support to one of the world's most odious regimes makes it impossible to take such claims seriously. Now is the time for China to set a new course for itself in its foreign policy.

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Tents are the difference between life and death.

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China is trying to portray itself as an emerging and responsible global power.

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Yet they still remain afraid of their own citizens and the healthy diversity of news and views which defines a modern society .

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The Security Council has taken up urgent human rights and political problems in more than 20 countries this year. If China moves to block this effort they should explain to Aung San Suu Kyi and average Burmese people why their concerns are less important.

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Beijing should authorize a full and impartial investigation into the involvement of local authorities in the blood scandal and hold those responsible accountable.

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There is ample precedent for the Security Council to take up the human rights and political situation in a country with as horrific a record as Burma, especially when suffering spills across borders.

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