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Broadcasters urged to cancel plans to cover Beijing Olympics
September 9, 2021January 16, 2024
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Broadcasters urged to cancel plans to cover Beijing Olympics

AP original link: https://news.yahoo.com/broadcasters-urged-cancel-plans-cover-032601769.html?guccounter=1 TOKYO (AP) — Some of the world’s largest broadcasters including American network NBC are being asked by human rights groups to cancel plans to cover next year’s Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Winter Games are scheduled to open on Feb. 4. The request comes in an open letter from rights groups representing minorities...

Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option
April 8, 2021January 16, 2024
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Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option

We are Uyghur and Tibetan activists. We call on the United States, Canada and like-minded countries to coordinate a global boycott of the 2022 Olympics in China. By Zumretay Arkin and Lhadon Tethong Article link: https://zumretay.medium.com/beijing-2022-boycott-is-the-only-option-23de017b579b A movement calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics is gaining momentum. State Department officials have recently...

Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option
April 8, 2021April 8, 2021
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Beijing 2022: Boycott is the Only Option

We are Uyghur and Tibetan activists. We call on the United States, Canada and like-minded countries to coordinate a global boycott of the 2022 Olympics in China. By Zumretay Arkin and Lhadon Tethong A movement calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Olympics is gaining momentum. State Department officials have recently denied reports that...

Opinion: Anti-China is not anti-Asian
April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
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Opinion: Anti-China is not anti-Asian

The Atlanta-area spa shootings — in which a White gunman allegedly slaughtered eight people, including six Asian women — have propelled the subject of anti-Asian violence to the center of the national conversation. For first-generation Asian Americans such as myself, who never begrudged our collective invisibility so long as our personal security was assured, it is profoundly...

Tibet: The Final Solution?
February 25, 2021February 25, 2021
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Tibet: The Final Solution?

In this episode of The Little Red Podcast Tibet Action’s Tenzin Dorjee joined author Barbara Demick and historian Benno Weiner to discuss alarming developments in China’s colonial strategies toward Tibet. They discuss Beijing’s three-front assault on Tibetan language, religion and way of life, the sharp rise in the general level of fear among ordinary people,...

Apple suppressing human rights critics, shareholders warn
December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
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Apple suppressing human rights critics, shareholders warn

For immediate release – Friday 18 December 2020 Apple suppressing human rights critics, shareholders warn Apple has failed to enact the human rights policy it introduced in August, and has suppressed a shareholder proposal raising human rights concerns, according to a coalition of shareholders, campaigners,and Tibetan, Uyghur,and Hongkonger human rights defenders.  The tech giant introduced...

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