Google’s tenth birthday
Google has just turned 10, but for human rights activists some of the memories of the last decade aren't so splendid.
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Posted on 08 September 2008
Education difficult for migrant workers’ children
China's millions of migrant workers are routinely treated as second class citizens and denied their basic rights. And that has repercussions for the education of their children.
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Posted on 08 September 2008
Artist calls for retrial in execution case
A woman is taken to be executed in Ghangzhou, China. © Reuters
The designer of one of the most famous Beijing Olympic symbols has stepped into the controversy over the secret trial of a young Chinese man sentenced to death.
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Posted on 08 September 2008
China in the headlines – 8 September 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The Paralympics have opened in China, a country where prejudice against the disabled is still widespread.
Chinese authorities begin a Ramadan security crackdown in the homeland of the country's mainly Muslim ethnic Uighur people.
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Posted on 08 September 2008
Blind activist’s friends and family face more hurdles
Chen Guangcheng (wearing sunglasses) with a group of disabled people from China's Shandong province in 2002. © Dubin
Relatives and friends of jailed blind activist Chen Guangcheng have had their telephones tampered with – just as the Paralympics are about to open.
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Posted on 05 September 2008
Can Paralympics be a catalyst for change?
Many are hoping China's hosting of the Paralympics will have positive spin-offs for the country's disabled, who despite improvements still face many barriers.
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Posted on 05 September 2008
China in the headlines – 5 September 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Angry parents, whose children died when their schools collapsed in May's devastating earthquake, are thwarted in their bid to confront China's Prime Minister.
The Chinese ambassador to the UK writes in the Guardian about how she thinks the Olympics have changed her country.
A look at what's likely to happen in the Tibet-China relationship when the Dalai Lama eventually dies.
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Posted on 05 September 2008
Questions over closed door death penalty case
Criminals sentenced to death during a trial in China's Hunan province in 2006. ©Private
A secretive trial of a Beijing man, who was sentenced to death for killing six police officers, has sparked questions about fairness, justice and the police treatment of suspects.
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Posted on 03 September 2008
Propaganda for China’s young students
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Millions of Chinese schoolchildren have been made to watch a propaganda broadcast about the Olympics and May's devastating Sichuan earthquake, reports the Telegraph.
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Posted on 03 September 2008
China in the headlines – 3 September 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
The Financial Times looks what the oil boom in the Xinjiang region means for the ethnic Uighur people.
One of Tibet's most important monasteries reopens, five months after it was shut during regional anti-government unrest.
A former top communist party aide, who's been under house arrest for nearly two decades, believes the Olympics will bring positive changes to China.
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Posted on 03 September 2008
Cameras gone, protests (semi) allowed
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Beijing residents have said that in the eight days since the end of the Olympics, and ahead of Saturday's Paralympic Games, air pollution in Beijing has dramatically worsened. On 30 August about 500 angry residents staged a marching demonstration near the Bird's Nest stadium.
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Posted on 03 September 2008
Add a widget for human rights in China
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The race for human rights in China is far from over. As the media crews leave Beijing we need to keep the international spotlight on China and remind the world that there is still much change needed to progress human rights in China.
Add our China widget to your website or blog to encourage people to keep speaking up for human rights in China!
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Posted on 02 September 2008
Sentence revoked for elderly protestors
Detainees at a Chinese Re-education Through Labour facility. © Guang Niu/Getty Images
Chinese authorities have backtracked on their decision to send two elderly protestors to a labour camp. But a farmer who also wanted to protest during the Olympics hasn't been so lucky.
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Posted on 01 September 2008
Crackdown still felt in Tibet’s Shangri La
Ethnic Tibetans living in the isolated town of Shangri La are experiencing the effects of a crackdown by Chinese authorities, reports Al Jazeera English.
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Posted on 01 September 2008
China in the headlines – 1 September 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
Did the Olympics improve human rights in China? The BBC investigates.
A farmer who applied to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest zones is now serving an open-ended sentence for "suspected extortion".
One of the organisers of a protest, held in Beijing at the weekend against a rubbish disposal plant, is missing, say a rights group.
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Posted on 01 September 2008
More media rules from China’s propaganda bureau
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China's official propaganda department has just issued new rules for some local media – it seems global criticism of its heavy-handed tactics doesn't bother the authorities.
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Posted on 29 August 2008
The Uighur: persecuted or terrorists?
In the northwest of China live the little known Uighur people. Amnesty International say they've suffered systematic human rights violations, but the Chinese Government call them terrorists and separatists. Current TV investigates the Uighur.
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Posted on 29 August 2008
China in the headlines – 29 August 2008
In the latest wrap-up from news outlets and bloggers across the globe:
A look at what happened to one New York Times' Olympics story after a Beijing newspaper 'translated' it.
Hundreds of Tibetan monks detained during the March unrest, and deported to a remote Chinese province, remain in custody.
China's spotlight during the Games didn't bring greater freedom of speech for the country's outspoken human rights advocates.
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Posted on 29 August 2008
Were the Games all gloss and no substance? Have your say
Jacquelin Magnay explores whether the Games were all gloss. What are your thoughts? Did the Games present a false image of China, were they 'exceptional' in all regards, were they a success?
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Posted on 28 August 2008
Chinese net users on the BBC
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The BBC's news pages (in English only) have been available to Chinese internet users and the comments are starting to flow as people in China take the opportunity to read what 'the West has to say'.
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Posted on 28 August 2008