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Human Rights Issues in China
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.
Where to search
• Wikipedia is useful, look at the references at the bottom of the article.
• www.intute.ac.uk
• Look in national newspaper websites
• 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.
Tibet
Falun Gong
Tiananmen Square
The One Child Policy
Press Freedom, Freedom of
Speech, Freedom of Internet
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
• 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
• 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.
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.
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.
