Troy students part of Congress simulation TROY -- Troy High School students participated in the 2011 Junior State of America Winter Congress convention held in Washington during President's Day weekend. The students met with Sen. Sherrod Brown at his reception for Ohio constituents at the Capitol building. During the weekend, the students also heard from guest speakers Rosa Gumataotao Rios, U.S. treasurer; a tea party scholar; and a Chinese national who was a political prisoner in China, currently leading an international human rights group.
The Nobel Peace Prize was placed Friday on an empty chair in Oslo's city hall, creating a potent new symbol of the struggle for human rights and political reform in China. Laureate Liu Xiaobo would have been sitting in that chair, were he not locked away in an obscure prison in northeastern China.
An international human rights group is charging China's government with continuing to violate its citizens' human rights and undermining its own plan to protect civil and political rights during the past two years. China's government in April 2009 unveiled its first-ever National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP), which sought to promote and protect human rights for a period that ended last month.
PARIS - Around the globe, athletes are plodding on lonely training runs, sweating in gyms and straining in pools, united by a common goal: to be faster, higher and stronger at the Beijing Olympics. But there's no unity when it comes to protests, boycotts and political demonstrations - over Tibet or other human rights issues in China.
Shortly after his inauguration, President Obama instructed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reconsider California's request for a waiver of Clean Air Act preemption so that the state could enact air pollution standards for motor vehicles that were stricter than the national standards.14 The EPA under the Obama administration seems to be moving in the direction of regulating CO2.'5 These moves are welcomed by the international community.1 In Washington, D.C., there seems to be a growing sense of urgency among President Obama's policy advisors to work with China on climate change. In early February 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited China with climate change at the top of her agenda.17 From February to June 2009, an impressive list of high officials and pol...
... impressive list of high officials and political leaders took turns visiting China to discuss clima..., compared with other issues like human rights, is high on the Obama administration's agenda in r...
Dan Blumenthal asserts: "The Olympics will not pry China open. The Communist Party's repressive techniques will grow stronger thanks to Western technology and training." Jacques deLisle counters: "The Olympics are likely to have a modestly positive impact on freedom, civil and political rights, and kindred values in China. Minxin Pei doesn't know: "It remains unclear whether the Beijing Olympics will be auspicious for the future of freedom in China. If history provides any guidance, it offers little encouragement."
SEOUL, South Korea - The same day of his arrival in Beijing for the Olympics, President George W. Bush plans to pointedly express "deep concerns" about the state of human rights in China and urge the communist nation to allow political freedom for its citizens. America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents, human rights advocates and religious activists," Bush is to say in the marquee speech of his three- nation Asia trip. "We speak out for a free press, freedom of assembly and labor rights - not to antagonize China's leaders, but because trusting its people with greater freedom is the only way for China to develop its full potential.
With more frequent trade between the U.S. and China, laborers' situation and rights in China cause increased friction in trading. Behind this friction are a lot of elements including American domestic political and economic policy, Chinese political strategy, the idea of human rights, and so on. The solution to the problems depends on developing an understanding between the two countries. And to China, it's very important to develop its labor law institutions and firmly protect laborers' rights lest the U.S. reject its products with the excuse of labor problems.
President Bush chided China over its human rights record Thursday in remarks that are likely to embarrass his hosts in Thailand, a close ally of Beijing. America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents, human rights advocates and religious activists," Mr. Bush said.
ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece - Even before the Olympic flame was lit Monday, a protester of China's human rights policies disrupted the solemn ceremony, foreshadowing the prospect of demonstrations throughout the 85,000-mile torch-relay route right up to the Beijing Games themselves. Forecasts of clouds and rain had been considered the main threat to the pomp-filled torch-lighting. But in the end, while the sun sparked the flame to life, it was the protesters who turned the joyful bow to the Olympics' roots into a political statement about China's crackdown in Tibet and other rights issues.
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