韩东方（1963年－），当代工人运动领袖，中国持不同政见者。1989年，韩东方在八九学运中参与创建北京工人自治联合会。1993年他被中华人民共和国政府驱逐出境[1]，至1997年5月获发香港身份证[2]。
韩基于中国工人阶级有责任担起这一推动社会进步的历史使命的理念，于1994年在香港独立工会和国际自由工会运动的支持下，创立了“中国劳工通讯组织”。
目前，中国劳工通讯已经在中国香港特别行政区登记注册。中国劳工通讯目前和今后一段时期内的主要目标是[3]：
“ 1，向中国大陆工人弟兄姊妹们传播独立工运理念；
2，向国际社会传递有关中国工人遭受剥削和压迫以及中国工人起来反抗的信息；
3，在国内广大工人的参与下，逐步建立中国工人运动教育网站系统，为未来工会教育打下基础；
4，建立中国独立工运团结基金，救济、抚恤受迫害独立工运人士及他/她们的家属、子女。
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另外，韩东方在“自由亚洲电台”设有《劳工通讯》广播节目，每周对中国大陆广播两次，内容主要是中国劳工通讯与中国劳动者及政府官员就劳工问题所进行的讨论。
Han Dongfang (simplified Chinese: 韩东方; traditional Chinese: 韓東方; pinyin: Hán Dōngfāng; born 1963) has been an advocate for workers' rights in China for more than two decades during which time he has won numerous international awards including the 1993 Democracy Award from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy.
Born in the impoverished village of Nanweiquan in Shanxi, Han first came to international prominence when, as a railway worker in Beijing, he helped set up the Beijing Autonomous Workers’ Federation (BAWF) during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The BAWF was the People's Republic of China's first independent trade union, established as an alternative to the Party-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions.
The BAWF was disbanded after the June 4 crackdown and Han was placed at the top of the Chinese government’s most wanted list. Han turned himself into the police and was imprisoned for 22 months without trial until he contacted tuberculosis in prison and was released in April 1991. He spent a year in the U.S. undergoing medical treatment before returning to China in August 1993. On his return, he was arrested in Guangzhou and expelled to Hong Kong, where he still lives today.
In 1994, he established China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based non-governmental organization that seeks to uphold and defend the rights of workers across China.
In addition to his work at CLB, Han conducts regular interviews with workers and peasants across China on Radio Free Asia. These interviews give insight into lives of workers in China are broadcast across China three times weekly on shortwave radio.
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