From AFP:
From a spartan office in a humble brick building on a university campus, law professor Wang Canfa (王灿发) has gained fame for the legal battles he was waged for thousands of pollution victims across China.
“I feel I have the legal knowledge and should provide help for the underprivileged as best I can,” said the diminutive academic at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.
“This is also my ideal as a law scholar: to seek justice.”
The 49-year-old runs the only non-government organisation in China that provides legal help to victims of widespread pollution — many of whom are poor farmers whose livelihoods have been blighted by industrial waste. [Full Text]
