John Kamm is an American businessman and human rights activist.
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John Kamm is the founder of The Dui Hua Foundation, a nonprofit humanitarian organization that promotes universal human rights in well-informed, mutually respectful dialogue with China.
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John Kamm is credited with having helped more than 400 political and religious prisoners in China.
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John Kamm has made 10 visits to Chinese prisons and has submitted requests for information on more than 1,000 prisoners.
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John Kamm received an AB from Princeton University and an AM from Harvard University.
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John Kamm advocated for the extension of China's Most Favored Nation trade status, arguing that engagement with China is more effective than sanctions at improving the status of political detainees.
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John Kamm's work has enabled many of China's political and religious prisoners to receive clemency in the form of sentence reductions, parole, and early releases, as well as better treatment in prison.
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John Kamm frequently participates in talks, forums, councils and roundtables hosted by academic, governmental, and nongovernmental institutions worldwide.
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John Kamm has testified on numerous occasions to the US Congress, for example on November 3,2011 to the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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In 2004 John Kamm became the first businessman to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
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John Kamm is the founder and executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation—dui hua is pinyin for the Chinese word meaning “dialogue.
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