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>  **Keywords** > >    Human rights refers to the "basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled.All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.     <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive">How bad are Human rights in China? **    Although the 1982 constitution guarantees freedom of speech, the Chinese government often uses the subversion of state power clause to imprison those who are critical of the government."We are confident that the Games coming to China not only promote our economy but also enhance all social conditions, including education, health and human rights," said Wang Wei, head of the bid committee. But according to the Amnesty report, the authorities have extended the use of imprisonment without trial - a legal measure called "re-education through labor", and other means to keep protesters and activists out of sight in the run-up to the Games. "The Chinese authorities have locked up, put under house arrest, and forcibly removed individuals they perceive may threaten the image of 'stability and harmony' they want to present to the world," Amnesty says.At a luncheon forum Wednesday on Parliament Hill, speakers said that not only have human rights abuses not improved ahead of the Olympics as Beijing promised, they have actually become worse in many ways. Guoting was one of only two human rights lawyers in all of China in 2003. He was also the first lawyer in China to represent a Falun Gong practitioner, for which he lost his job and was imprisoned for two and one-half years. "If a human rights lawyer in China can't even protect himself, how can ordinary people be protected by the law? There are no human rights in China." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> It also alleges that the country still uses the death penalty for 68 criminal offenses, including a number of non-violent crimes, and says that the government has tightened control over foreign correspondents since abandoning formal reporting restrictions in January last year.
 * Essential Question**
 * China didn't deserve to host the Olympic games
 * Research Questions**
 * How bad are Ch<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">ina's human rights?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">How bad is the pollution in China?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">What is China doing to improve their human rights?
 * What are Human rights?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Does China have death penalty's?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">What is China doing to improve the pollution?
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">What are human rights? **
 * Does China still have Death penalty's?**

One of the serious negative consequences of the People's Republic of China's rapid industrial development has been increased pollution and degradation of natural resources. Much solid waste is not properly disposed of. Water pollution is a source of health problems across the country and air pollution causes up to 750,000 premature deaths each year. China's polluted environment is largely a result of the country's rapid development and consequently a large increase in primary energy consumption, which is primarily provided by coal power plants. The World Bank reports that 2 of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are in China.The quality of the environment has not at all improved even though there have been years of increased pollution control. According to some national plan targets which were released prior to 2005, by the end of 2005, discharge amounts of main pollutants would be 10 percent less than in the year 2000, this has not happened said a survey of air, land and water carried out in the year 2006.<span class="st_tag internal_tag">China ’s environmental problems are mounting. Water pollution and water scarcity are burdening the economy, rising levels of air pollution are endangering the health of millions of Chinese, and much of the country’s land is rapidly turning into desert. China ** has become a world leader in air and water pollution and land degradation and a top contributor to some of the world’s most vexing global environmental problems, such as the illegal timber trade, marine pollution, and climate change ****. ** After walking around for just over an hour you get a tingling in your throat and lungs. Also it doesn't take long for some people to feel irritations in their eyes.
 * How bad is the pollution in China?**

Beginning on June 1 2008, for the entire country of China, all supermarkets, department stores and shops will be prohibited from giving out free plastic bags. Stores must clearly mark the price of plastic shopping bags and are banned from tacking that price onto products. The production, sale and use of ultra-thin plastic bags - those less than 0.025 millimeters, or 0.00098 inches, thick - are also banned. The State Council calls for "a return to cloth bags and shopping baskets."- The same day of his arrival in Beijing for the Olympics, President Bush is carrying a message of "deep concerns" about the state of human rights in China and urging the communist nation to allow political freedoms for its citizens.<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Amnesty International sent out a press release on April 1st, indicating that human rights in China has not improved in the least, but that violations have increased even more. Amnesty is calling on the Chinese communist regime to immediately stop suppressing Tibetans, human rights advocates, religious groups or people with beliefs.
 * What is China doing to improve their human rights?**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">**What is China doing to improve the pollution?** Chinese government new driving restrictions and closing down more Beijing factories. The air has been improving since July 20th.No it has not it has been getting worse for the last decade.

Human Rights Watch believes that the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing give the Chinese government a unique opportunity to demonstrate to its people and the world a commitment to the fundamental freedoms guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in China’s own constitution. Human Rights Watch hopes the international spotlight and sustained international pressure can move Chinese leaders to remove obstacles to the full enjoyment of those rights for 1.3 billion citizens. Failure by the government to guarantee freedom of movement, thought, conscience, religion, assembly, association and access to information would be unworthy of an Olympic host.This is a point on which reasonable people can disagree. One could argue that the Chinese government’s deplorable human rights record should disqualify it from hosting the Olympics or other major international events. But on balance, and taking into account the strong desire of most Chinese people to host the Games, we believe that it is better to use this opportunity to pressure the Chinese government to improve human rights and the rule of law.
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