China Human Rights

Beatings, Protests, Arrests Mark 60th Annual Human Rights Day

Huffington Post | Posted 12.10.2008 | World

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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The Financial Times reports that the UN human rights commissioner, Navi Pill...

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Obammunism

Disgrasian | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Disgrasian

Like the Chinese, Obama is a Communist. So you know what that means, right? Obama not only shared his toys, but he, like the Chinese, first tainted them with lead paint.

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What's Gold Got To Do With It: China's Post-Olympic Identity

Chi Tung | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

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Chi Tung

Winning more golds than anyone else is exactly the kind of paradoxical achievement that enables New China to keep marching to the beat of its own hollow drum

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media

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Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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China's Deadly Investments

John Prendergast | Posted 09.30.2008 | Business

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John Prendergast

Washington and activists around the world need to focus on Beijing's investment strategy -- its economic interests are undermined by its present foreign policy and offering China real alternatives.

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China, Artists, & the Olympics: What Have They Got That We Don't?

Bob Ostertag | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home

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Bob Ostertag

The opening extravaganza at the Beijing Olympics one of those rare moments when many different threads of history simultaneously pass through the eye ...

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Arrested in Tibet: A Young American's Journey of Fear

Rebecca Novick | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

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Rebecca Novick

In a Tibetan stall, Wen asked the price of something in Chinese. The shopkeeper ignored her, and then muttered bitterly in English, "No good Chinese." She wanted to find out what lay at the root of that sentiment.

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Simple as Chinese Olympics

Will Durst | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

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Will Durst

I swear that if I hear the word "dream" uttered one more time, somebody at NBC is going to have chopsticks sticking out of parts of their body that chopsticks don't normally stick out of.

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Human Rights Group Overtakes Beijing Radio Station For Protest

Times Online | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media

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The world's best-known advocate of freedom of the media took its message to the heart of Beijing this morning, making a pirate broadcast on Chinese ra...

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The Beijing Olympics: Masking the Problem

Sean Carman | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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Sean Carman

Ohhhh...local Olympic organizers, I'm so, so sorry! I didn't mean to offend your delicate sensibilities by WEARING A MASK in an AIRPORT! What's next? Excuse while I just put on my "Free Tibet" t-shirt.

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Sponsoring the Olympics Is Bad for Business

Sophie Richardson | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business

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Sophie Richardson

The 12 biggest Olympics sponsors may soon learn that government-fanned waves of nationalism are bad for business. The sponsors are only shooting themselves in the foot -- and paying to do so!

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George Bush -- Waiting to Inhale in Beijing

Patt Morrison | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

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Patt Morrison

When Bush steps off Air Force One in Beijing, maybe he should be wearing his own smog mask, if only as a sign of solidarity with this country's athletes.

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Olympic Protests: A Second Look

Jeremy Haft | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

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Jeremy Haft

If real human rights reform is what you want, then castigating the Chinese on the world stage isn't too productive -- mainly because it impedes the progress that is actually being made on the ground.

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Welcome to the Orwell Olympics

Marty Kaplan | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

Bush doesn't have to ask Hu Jintao to tear down the Great Wall of China, but the least he can do is to use in public, in China, some of the lovely human rights language he claims he's been saying in private.

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The China Question: To Beg or to Blog?

Steve Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

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Steve Posner

Mao's successors in the Communist Party are offering the Chinese people food but not freedom, and many are happy to take the deal.

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Five Things We Wish George W. Bush Would Read Before His Olympic Visit to China

Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess

In recognition of the limited time he has before departing for Beijing, we've put together a brief list of the best recent China writing on the Web.

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Human Rights In China Made Worse By Olympics: Report

Amnesty International | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

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The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country's human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, accord...

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The Silent Olympics

Kavita N. Ramdas | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

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Kavita N. Ramdas

In this age of globalization, the Chinese government can no longer assume that its whole-hearted embrace of free markets can occur without its own citizens pushing for other kinds of freedoms.

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One World, Disparate Dreams

Charley Johnson | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

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Charley Johnson

The detention of activists, coupled with the expulsion of thousands of migrant workers and disabled persons contradicts China's vision for the Olympics, captured by the slogan "One World, One Dream."

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China, Corporate Sponsors, and Darfur

Charley Johnson | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

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Charley Johnson

For China and corporate sponsors -- the archetype of control freaks -- the mercurial nature of the games makes this headache an Olympic-sized migraine.

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Torcher Memo

Bill Maher | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

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Bill Maher

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Why America Won't Boycott the Olympics

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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Allison Kilkenny

The only way to clearly denounce the corrupt behavior of the Chinese government is to withdraw corporate sponsorship from the Olympics.

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The Whole World is Screaming: Free Tibet

Adrienne Maree Brown | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

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Adrienne Maree Brown

Tibet has a chance to raise awareness of the abuses and oppression of Chinese rule. They are raising awareness currently all along the Olympic Torch path.

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Good News, Bad News

William Fisher | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

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William Fisher

The U.S. no longer has the credibility to influence any substantive change in Chinese human rights practices. We squandered it at Abu Ghraib. We squandered it at Guantanamo.

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