Human Rights and the Beijing Olympics
Winstead Ballroom BELO Mansion
Dallas Lawyers Chapter
Speakers:
- Rick Halperin, Director, SMU Human Rights Education Program
- Sun Aiping, Chinese Consulate
- Bill Saunders, Human Rights Counsel at the Family Research Council,
Speakers:
- Rick Halperin, Director, SMU Human Rights Education Program
- Sun Aiping, Chinese Consulate
- Bill Saunders, Human Rights Counsel at the Family Research Council,
The quadrennial spectacle of the Olympic games approach, this time to be hosted by a nation regularly criticized for its human rights record.
How should a host country's treatment of its citizens effect our thoughts and actions?
On the one hand, the games may be used to advance a Chinese model of government that some argue is incompatible with human dignity.
On the other, does imposing political tests on the Olympics a la Carter punish anyone but ourselves? And exactly what is the human rights situation in China today?
Please join the Society for a panel discussion of China: its record, its people, and its Olympics.