Full Coverage: China
August 2007
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The aim of this Guide is to provide a brief introduction to human rights and sustainable development issues in China
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30.08.2007
WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (OneWorld) - One of the most favorable yet systematically overlooked characteristics of solar, wind, biomass, and other types of organic energy is their universality.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [India] [Mali] [United States] Image: Drying cow dung for a biogas power plant in India. © Ed Fladung / Worldwatch Institute
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24.08.2007
From an eco-village off the coast of Shanghai to a mobile classroom that brings eco-friendly projects to rural schools and raises awareness among young people, China is confronting its CO2 problem in innovative ways.
more...From: Policy Innovations Image: Dongtan Marsh, where China plans to build a model eco-city. © laughterwym (flickr)
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23.08.2007
Chinese cyber-dissident and blogger He Weihua's enforced confinement in a psychiatric hospital is an outrage, says an international media freedom group.
more...+ Jailed Dissident's Wife Under House Arrest in Beijing From: Reporter Senza Frontiere |
21.08.2007
As China aims to slow the growth of its wealth gap by developing the country's interior, its water policies threaten to inflict irreversible damage to the regional environment. Photojournalist Jack Carino explains.
more...From: Eurasianet (Open Society Institute) Image: Outflow from a 200-mile long canal that feeds a growing urban and oil extraction area. © Jack Carino / Eurasianet (Open Society Institute)
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19.08.2007
COPENHAGEN, Aug 18 (OneWorld) - Though China would like to be seen at the next Olympics as a major world power that stands for international peace, an Olympic-style torch relay that began in Africa this week is painting a different picture of the giant Asian nation.
more...From: OneWorld US Related topics/regions: [Sudan] [Activism] [Ethics & value systems] [Geopolitics] [Conflict] [Peace] [Security] Image: After lighting the torch, Mia Farrow and an 8-year-old Darfuri refugee walk into a sandstorm. © Dream for Darfur
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14.08.2007
Actress Mia Farrow and fellow campaigners have begun an Olympic-style torch relay through countries that have suffered genocide to press China to help end abuses in the Darfur region of its oil trading partner, Sudan.
more...From: Canada.com Related topics/regions: [Sudan] Image: olimpiadi in Cina - da Olympicswatch.org
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09.08.2007
Attempts to adjust gross domestic product across China by accounting for its toll on the local environment are floundering.
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08.08.2007
The 10th anniversary of the weblog leads advocates for fairer globalization to reflect on the pro-democratic power of “citizen journalism” in countries like China, South Korea, and Iran.
more...From: Policy Innovations Related topics/regions: [South Korea] [Iran] Image: Electronic activism. © BytesForAll
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07.08.2007
One year before the Olympic Games open in Beijing, the Chinese government severely restricts and censors the domestic press despite its promise to “give the media complete freedom,” the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in a new report.
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07.08.2007
A call for the release of the approximately 100 journalists, cyber-dissidents and free speech activists imprisoned in China has been made at an unauthorised news conference outside the building that houses the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.
more...From: Reporter Senza Frontiere Image: olimpiadi in Cina - da Olympicswatch.org
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