HUMAN RIGHTS: The 2008 Olympics and China’s Communist regime*

Beijing was awarded the 2008 Olympics Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2001, on the condition that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would improve its appalling human rights record. Human rights in China, however, have sharply deteriorated in the run-up to the Games, as Peter Westmore recently reported in a speech before an international forum, “Human Rights in China and the 2008 Olympics”, held in Taipei on February 21-22.In this seminar, we are examining the link between t…

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