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		<title>An Empty Chair is This Year&#8217;s Image of Human Rights Day</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/12/empty-chair-years-image-human-rights-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you remembered that today is Human Rights Day (and if you did, good for you!),  then the empty chair at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo is perhaps the enduring symbol of how close &#8212; and distant &#8212; the goal of universal human rights still is. The empty chair was for Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Threatens to Depart China Over Human Rights</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2010/01/google-threatens-depart-china-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google, Inc., the increasingly all-powerful web presence in everything from web browsers to email, is threatening to close up shop in China.  The reason, according to the company, is that its operations there are under cyber-attacks that are focused upon obtaining information about Chinese human rights activists. Google also claims that it&#8217;s not the only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Images of the Courage of Freedom</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/06/images-courage-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times has a fascinating feature on the iconic image of &#8220;Tank Man,&#8221; the unidentified Beijing pedestrian who &#8212; 20 years ago this week &#8212; calmly stepped in front of a column of Army tanks on Tiananmen Square in protest of the government&#8217;s violent crackdown on Chinese citizens protesting state oppression of human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thousands of Young Boys in China Kidnapped and Trafficked</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/04/thousands-young-boys-china-kidnapped-trafficked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A disturbing report from China by the New York Times asserts that an untold number of Chinese boys &#8212; some as young as four &#8212; are kidnapped and placed into illicit human trafficking rings throughout Asia.  Many, especially in poor rural provinces, end up being purchased by Chinese families desperate for a male heir.  According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Will Push China on Human Rights &#8212; But Not Right Now</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/02/push-china-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2009/02/push-china-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My family enjoys watching the offbeat television comedy show, &#8220;Big Bang Theory&#8221; every Monday evening.  In it, the goofy characters &#8212; all brilliant but nerdy physicists &#8212; constantly play the childhood game &#8220;rock-paper-scissors&#8221; to help them decide their various daily priorities, like what to eat or what game to play. The rock-paper-scissors game came to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated: China Detains Two Elderly Women for Protesting Olympics</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2008/08/china-the-olympics-is-freedom-far-behind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two elderly Chinese women in Beijing, ages 79 and 77, have been sentenced to a year of labor and &#8220;re-education&#8221; for attempting to get a permit to protest what they claimed was inadequate compensation for their homes that were demolished to make way for the Olympics. It&#8217;s the kind of story that will quickly be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Radiohead Music Video Addresses Child Labour</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2008/05/new-radiohead-video-addresses-human-trafficking/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2008/05/new-radiohead-video-addresses-human-trafficking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 18:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris McMahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Radiohead is taking MTV EXIT to a new level and expanding the Asia campaign, which is on air, online and on the ground,&#8221; said Olivier Carduner, USAID&#8217;s Regional Mission Director for Asia. As part of this effort, Radiohead released a music video on MTV on May 1st to the track All I Need, from its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News: Child Labor Cases Uncovered in China</title>
		<link>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2008/04/news-child-labor-cases-uncovered-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://freedomcenter.org/freedom-forum/index.php/2008/04/news-child-labor-cases-uncovered-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Bernish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI &#8211; China said Wednesday that it was investigating whether hundreds or perhaps thousands of children from poor areas in the southwest part of the country were sold to work as slave laborers in booming coastal factory cities. Authorities in southern Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong, said they had already “rescued” more than 100 children [...]]]></description>
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