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__**Essential Question**__ Is boycotting the Olympic Games the best way to deal with human rights issues in China. China, human rights,bad What, human rights human rights, affecting, Olympic Games China, Doing, improve, human rights China Olympic Games, human rights, given Why, problems, human rights, China
 * __R____esearch Questions__**
 * 1.**How bad is China's human rights?
 * 2.**What are human rights?
 * 3.**How is human rights affecting the Olympic Games?
 * 4.**What is China doing to improve human rights?
 * 5.**Why was China given the Olympic Games if their human rights are like they are?
 * 6.**Wat are the problems with human rights in China?

__**Answers**__ In his final presentation to win the Games, Beijing Mayor and Bidding Committee president Liu Qi proclaimed that winning the Olympics would “benefit the further development of our human rights cause.” Yet the past year has seen a steady deterioration of human rights in China. Outspoken human rights leaders have been jailed or put under house arrest, lawyers taking sensitive cases (such as those of Tibetan protestors) threatened and attacked, petitioners kicked out of Beijing, and journalists (domestic and foreign) harassed and detained.
 * 2** The basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
 * 3** When China was awarded the Olympic Games they promised to the world that they would improve human rights.
 * 5**When China won the right to host the 2008 Olympics, it was due in good part to human rights pledges. These included a specific commitment of “complete freedom” to report for the global media. Beijing made these pledges after losing its first bid to host in 1993, largely because of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.