Human Rights Issues in China

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Human Rights Issues in China
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In your groups you will

• Research and collect materials for all the groups
  to use for their documentaries.
• Use the internet to find, articles, pictures,
  opinions, video and more.
• You need to filter out the good stuff from the
  bad.
• You need to do a short presentation to the rest
  of the group explaining your issue.

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Where to search

• Google
• Wikipedia is useful, look at the references at
  the bottom of the article.
• www.intute.ac.uk
• Look in national newspaper websites

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• Make sure that when you use the internet to find
  information that you research, not just search.
  Google may return the most information but good
  research uses quality not quantity.
• www.alltheweb.com
• www.kartoo.com
• www.searchy.co.uk
• www.dogpile.com
• Use the other websites listed to help you find
  what you are looking for. Once you have the
  information remember to use CARS for safe
  navigation on the 'Information Highway'
• C - Credible, is the author well known and
  respected
• A - Authenticity, is it trustworthy
• R - Reasonable, objective
• S - Support, corroboration with other
  information, does it link to other sites.

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Tibet
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Falun Gong
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Tiananmen Square
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The One Child Policy
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Press Freedom, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of
Internet
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Where is this?

• Branded an Endemic Surveillance Society Has one
  camera for every 13 people.
• The worlds third largest user of cluster bombs
  over the last 10 years
• You can be detained without trial for a month
• Campaigning against laws to stop deportations of
  suspects to countries where torture is used
• Bans unauthorised protests within 1km of their
  parliament.
• Police can stop and search anyone

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• Children as young as 10 can have orders put on
  them banning them from certain areas.
• Is a nuclear superpower
• Has one of the highest prison populations per
  capita in the world

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• Unlimited house arrests and restrictions on
  suspects accused of terror.
• Government plans to hold 52 pieces of information
  on every individual living in the country.
• Has a history in the slave trade and colonisation
  and exploitation of much of the world.

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it is Great Britain!

• It is easy to make any country sound negative.
• Remember there are two sides to every story
• Though we have looked at many negative aspects of
  China today there are many positive sides too.

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Next Week

• Trip to China Town
• We have 2 video cameras to take with. We can take
  digital cameras but it may be easier if you use
  your camera phones.