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  • Have Your Say… Get Loud And Make Them Listen

    When the Chinese Government bid for and successfully won the Olympic Games, they made commitments to improve human rights in China.

    So far the Chinese Government is a long way from fulfilling its Olympic commitments.

  • Yahoo! in China: Contradicting its values

    Yahoo! was the first major foreign Internet company to enter the Chinese market in 1999.

  • Microsoft in China: Cosying up to the Government

    Of all the Western IT companies operating in China none has better access to the upper echelons of the Chinese Government than Microsoft.

  • Google in China: Do no evil?

    Google arrived in China relatively recently, only setting up a Chinese version of its www.google.com search engine in 2000.

  • Shi Tao – jailed for sending an email

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    Shi Tao © PEN

    Chinese journalist Shi Tao is serving 10 years in jail after Internet company Yahoo! gave the authorities his personal email account-holder information.

  • Yang Tongyan – pro-democracy activist and freelance writer

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    Yang Tongyan

    Yang Tongyan wrote web articles in support of democratic and political change in China. A court convicted him of 'subversion' and jailed him for 12 years.

  • Huang Jinqiu - Internet essayist and journalist

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    Huang Jinqiu

    Huang Jinqiu criticised China and it cost him his freedom. The journalist has been jailed, tortured and beaten.

  • Ye Guozhu – evicted from his home

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    Ye Guozhu

    Property owner Ye Guozhu is one of the many Beijing residents evicted from their homes to make way for Olympic building work. He spoke out and is now behind bars.

  • What the Australian Olympic Committee sponsors say

    Here’s a rundown what some of the corporate sponsors of the Australian Olympic Committee have said about human rights and the Olympics. There are also extracts and links to their corporate social responsibility policies.

  • What the Beijing Olympic sponsors say about CSR

    Here’s a rundown what some of the corporate sponsors of the Beijing Olympics have said about human rights and the Olympics. There are also extracts and links to their corporate social responsibility policies.

  • A corporate social responsibility Q&A

    What international guidelines and organisations have been established to address corporate social responsibility?

    These include the United Nations Norms, the United Nations Global Compact and a multi-stakeholder initiative.

  • Tiananmen Mothers – human rights defenders

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    The Tiananmen Mothers are fighting for justice for those killed and injured in an attack on peaceful protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square almost two decades ago.

  • Chen Guangcheng – human rights defender and legal advisor

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    Chen Guangcheng

    When authorities began forcing women from the village of Linyi to have abortions and sterilisations Chen Guangcheng decided to speak up.

  • Time to tear down the wall

    This opinion piece, from our national director Claire Mallinson, was published in The Canberra Times on 24 April 2008:

    A number of Australians will exercise a fundamental human right of expression and assembly today, and take part in peaceful protests along the Beijing Olympic torch relay route in Canberra ...

  • Net censorship: the basics

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    Elizabeth Dalziel/AP/PA Photo

    Over the past decade China has become the world’s largest internet market, but the Government, with the assistance of large internet companies, has succeeded in silencing freedom of expression and dissent, writes Antony Loewenstein.

  • Towards Beijing: March 2008 update

    The recent increase in the number and size of protests over Tibet has led to a formidable counter-attack by the Chinese Government, including the blocking of websites such as YouTube and Yahoo!, writes Antony Loewenstein

  • More about our new campaign to end internet repression in China

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    There are people in China who need your support. In China, saying what you think, confronting authority, standing up for basic rights or just sharing information can result in imprisonment, torture or death.

  • What is internet censorship?

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    Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Search results re-routed. Websites blocked. That's Internet censorship, China's 'Golden Shield Project'. The Government is watching you.

  • Violence and discrimination against women

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    Violence and discrimination against women remains severe in China, according to our most recent reports.

  • Workers’ rights

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    Independent trade unions are illegal in China. And the country’s official All China Federation of Trade Unions frequently fails to protect its members’ welfare.

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