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China Sentences 2 Elderly Women To Labor Camp For Protest Plans

AP | AUDRA ANG | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Olympics, China, China Protests, Beijing Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Forced Evictions, Olympics Forced Evictions, Home News

BEIJING — Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative s...

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Land Law And Forced Evictions in Cambodia

Jennifer Winstanley | Posted 07.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Cambodia, Human Rights, Forced Evictions, The Giving Life, Center on Housing Rights and Evictions, Bridges Across Borders, Living News
Jennifer Winstanley

In Cambodia today, more than 150,000 people are threatened with eviction. Forty-five percent of the country's entire landmass has been sold off - inc...

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One World, Disparate Dreams

Charley Johnson | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Olympics, China, Human Rights, Beijing Olympics, Forced Evictions, Urban Planning, China and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China Human Rights, Politics News
Charley Johnson

The detention of activists, coupled with the expulsion of thousands of migrant workers and disabled persons contradicts China's vision for the Olympics, captured by the slogan "One World, One Dream."

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