NOTE: Before answering the following questions, check out the links and watch the video under “Resources” below.

1. List the who, what, where and when of the news item.

2. What is the goal of the human rights group “No Beijing 2022”

3. a) How did the International Olympic Committee respond to the activists’ concerns about China hosting the 2022 games?
b) Do you agree with Mr. Bach’s assertion about the IOC and the UN? Do you think the IOC has no power, nothing they can do about China? Explain your answer.

4. Why did human rights campaigners nickname the 2022 Olympics the “Genocide Games”?

5. What point did the World Uyghur Congress representative say about the IOC’s response to their concerns?

6. a) What two suggestions did the Uyghur activists make?
b) For each one, do you think it could or should be done? Explain your answers.

7. Chinese human rights lawyer Teng Biao suggested the Olympic athletes should take a stand against China with various actions. Do you think it is the responsibility of the athletes to take the stand against genocide and the numerous human rights violations continually committed by the Communist Party leadership of China when the Olympic Committee refuses to do so ? Explain your answer.

8. Yoshiro Mori, the 82 year-old president of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, was forced to resign last month for saying women talk too much. He also said, “Somebody told me that if we increase the number of women (on the board), we have to also restrict their speaking time to an extent. Otherwise they’ll never stop.”
He apologized, but hundreds of female Olympic volunteers resigned in protest and demanded that he step down, female opposition lawmakers in the Japanese Diet (similar to U.S. Congress) wore white as a show of protest, corporate sponsors threatened to withdraw and several runners in the Olympic torch relay quit.
What do you think of this?

• An 82 year-old man says women talk too much (do they?) and the outrage is so great, that even though he apologized and acknowledged what he said was wrong, he was ousted as president of the Japan host committee.
• The Chinese Communist Party is committing genocide against ethnic Muslim Uighers (as well as human rights violations against many others) and the IOC refuses to even acknowledge it.

What should everyone who boycotted, quit, criticized or was outraged by Mr. Mori, do about Communist China’s human rights violations? Anything? Nothing? Explain your answer.