55 videos collected
Aug
7
Aug
7
President George W Bush criticized China's human rights record in a speech given in Thailand - his last trip to Asia as US President - on the eve of the Beijing Olympics.
Jul
30
Jul
30
BBC’s Beijing correspondent, James Reynolds demonstrated the limited access to the Internet at the Olympic press center in Beijing.
Jul
16
Jul
16
On July 12, 2008, Amnesty International held a global day of action using human aerial art to call on the Chinese authorities to ensure a positive human rights legacy for the Beijing Olympics. Thousands of AI supporters from around the world teamed up with Circle Up Now, to create large images on the ground which are only fully visible from above.
Jul
15
Jul
15
In 2001 the Chinese authorities said that allowing Beijing to host the games would help the development of human rights. Would China live up to its promise?
Fifteen-year-old Ngawang Sangdrol's life changed forever after she took part in a peaceful demonstration in Lhasa. She was arrested in 1992 for that and was subjected to beatings, solitary confinement and other forms of torture or ill-treatment in prison. She was released ten years later on medical parole.
Olympic runner Wilson Kirwa urges Chinese authorities to use the Olympic spirit to improve their human rights situation.
Li Xiaorong, a research scholar at the University of Maryland Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy, sees the good, the bad and the ugly that globalization has brought to China.
Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, says she would like to "see the possibility of an engaged debate with a wider cross section of Chinese society".
"Think of your life after you've spoken out." A journalist and a lawyer discuss the world's most sophisticated Internet censor - the Chinese authorities.
While the world celebrates the Beijing Olympics, human rights activist Hu Jia will spend it in jail.
