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CHINA: Status of human rights gets worse ahead of Games, says report
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Foreign Ministry calls Human Rights Watch report politically motivated
Women Rally, Demand Equal Rights in Asia
Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:55:05 +0000 | Newsvina Asia
Thousands of women from villages and cities across patriarchal Asia took to the streets Wednesday for International Women's Day to press for freedom, equal rights and an end to discriminatory laws.
Get to Chinese trial, Harper tells diplomats (Reuters)
Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:43:03 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who upset the Chinese government last year with blunt human rights criticism, is irritated that Canadian diplomats did not attend a court hearing in China of a Canadian rights activist.
Harper warns China on human-rights trade threat (Reuters)
Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:58:51 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Beijing on Friday against trying to use trade as a lever to deflect criticism of its human rights record, including its treatment of a Canadian imprisoned in China.
China Warns Canada the Criticism of Human Rights Threatens Relations
Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:15:40 +0000 | China View
BRIAN LAGHI AND JEFF SALLOT, Globe and Mail, Canada, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007- OTTAWA ? A senior Chinese official issued a sober warning to the Harper government yesterday over its criticism of his country’s human-rights policies, saying Canada’s trade and political relationships with China are falling behind. “The economic relationship goes hand in hand with the political [...]
Harper no guts speaking up against US's human rights abuse: critics
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:45:00 +0000 | Newsvine China
Stephen Harper might be hoisting high the human rights flag when he condemns the Chinese government for refusing Canadian diplomats to meet with Huseyin Celil, a Chinese Canadian who has been charged by China for alleged terrorism involvment.
China lets AIDS doctor collect U.S. rights prize (Reuters)
Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:46:26 GMT | Yahoo! News
Reuters - China will allow an aged AIDS activist to travel to the United States to collect a human rights prize, relenting after her detention at home for two weeks raised an international outcry.
