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Human Rights Watch Media Director Minky Worden discusses whether recent international attention due to environmental disasters, economic growth, a...
Human Rights Watch Media Director Minky Worden discusses whether recent international attention due to environmental disasters, economic growth, and the 2008 Olympics has affected China's positions on human rights.
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As human rights emerge as a central concern around the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges examines China in transition today.
When Beijing first sought to host the Olympics, China was still recovering from the upheavals of Maoist rule and adapting to a market revolution. How are Chinas leaders managing the Olympic process and the internal and external pressures for reform the Games are creating?
China's Great Leap illuminates China's recent history through voices of leading China experts, and points to key areas for future reform. Join the book's editor, Minky Worden, and contributing writers Scott Greathead and Emily Parker for an evening of discussion, moderated by Jamie Metzl, Executive Vice President of the Asia Society - Asia Society
As Media Director of Human Rights Watch, Minky Worden works with the world's journalists to help them cover crises, wars, human rights abuses and political developments in more than 70 countries worldwide.Before joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, Ms. Worden lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to democratic party chairman Martin Lee and worked at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter for the U.S. attorney general and in the executive office for US attorneys.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ms. Worden speaks Cantonese and German and is an elected member of the Overseas Press Club's board of governors. She is the editor of China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges (Seven Stories, May 2008) and the co-editor of Torture (New Press, 2005).
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this is fucking bullshit. Korea respect human rights ? Korean is a bunch racisists to other Asian countries. And what about those fucking racisim in Western countries. Please, stop shitting.
China is free and well.. yes sometime bad things happen, but what country dont have bad things happen? seriously you act as if RIGHTS is everything, will it feed your stomach? look at the middle east! did Democracy bring them freedom? or did it starve more people and cause more chaos? seriously dont be BLIND by the WORD DEMOCRACY.
The Dalai Lama is a FUCKING APE and dharamsala tbegs are evil SLAVE OWNERS AND RETARDED WOODOO CULT dummies and if they really think that they can bring back SLAVERY to China's Tibet then they are fucking insane !!
Iraqis dead more than 1 million innocents people during USA 5 years occupied, if Tibetans dead 1 million people every 5 years, 50 years must have 50 millions dead. Then no one Tibetan should being still alive if china killed tibetans like USA killed Iraqis.
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Korea respect human rights ?
Korean is a bunch racisists to other Asian countries.
And what about those fucking racisim in Western countries.
Please, stop shitting.
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How about environmental issues in China ???
FREE China
more and more world leaders can not stand his bad smell and poopoo odor !!
more and more world leaders realize that da liar lama is full of shit !!!
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