China and Human Rights

1) China: Freedom to Vote

• Only one party—Communist• Other political parties are illegal • Top leaders selected by party leaders

China’s president is Hu Jintao

2) China: Freedom of speech and the media

• Books, movies, speech, television, newspapers, internet sites that are critical of Communism or Chinese government are banned or restricted.

• The Great Firewall http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1867131

• Tiananmen Square: 1989 Student uprising

Bob Dylan

Wii and other systems…

Avatar

Mohawks

Tiananmen Square

3) China: Family size

4) China: Freedom of religion

• Communism reject all religions. • Party members must be atheists.• Organized religion (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism)

under the control of the government.

Buddhism and Dalai Lama

• Buddhists in Tibet want own nation with Dalai Lama as leader.

• China fully in control of Tibet since 1959. • Dalai Lama escaped to India with help of CIA1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrLHvLM114o (seven years in Tibet

Trailer) 2) http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4475224 Tibet

Dalai Lama