Human rights - China

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0024723

Description: Depicts man looking in a menswear shop window at display of three t-shirts. The best seller t-shirt has text reading 'CHINA our top export market'. The t-shirts labelled 'Specials 80% off' have text reading 'Human rights in China' and 'Save Tibet'. Refers to Statistics New Zealand report showing China has overtaken Australia as New Zealand's biggest export export for the first time (National Business Review 26 April 2013). Also refers to criticism of China in an annual survey of human rights by United States government saying that repression and coercion were routine (Reuters 20 April 2013). Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0005908

Description: Shows Prime Minister, Helen Clark, with the words 'free trade' blinding one of her eyes. The text says 'sporting a real China!' and refers to the Beijing Olympics that open in July 2008. Also refers to preparations for the signing of a free trade deal with China by New Zealand. There are protests against the trade deal because of China's human rights record. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0007286

Description: Shows a Chinese official telling a workman not to overdo things when cleaning up the smog. Faintly through the smog can be seen the upstretched shackled hands and bare feet of prisoners. The implication is that if the smog is cleared too well for the Beijing Olympics, human rights abuses may come to light. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0017803

Description: In the first frame United States Secretary of State Hilary Clinton stands at a podium and says 'China has a deplorable record on human rights!' and she continues in the second frame by saying '...so we should abduct those responsible to a secret prison, deprive them of sleep, and then waterboard them till they promise to do better!' The little Evans man says 'Quicker than they can say Guantanamo'. Context - Hilary Clinton is being accused of hypocracy in reminding China of its human rights record but it seems as though torture was used to track down Osama bin Laden. Former members of the Bush administratration claim that the tracking and killing of Osama bin Laden has vindicated the use of torture to obtain information. The claims, however, were immediately refuted by others with detailed knowledge of events at the time. However Leon Panetta, the CIA director, has confirmed that controversial "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding yielded some of the intelligence information that ultimately led to Osama bin Laden. (Telegraph 18 May 2011) Colour and black and white versions available Title from file name Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 22 July 2005

From: Owen, Dylan, 1958-: Photographs

Reference: PADL-000113

Description: Photographs of a demonstration against the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party, taken 22 July 2005 in Parliament Grounds, Wellington, by Dylan Owen. Arrangement: Photographs were originally in an electronic folder entitled 'Falun Gong Protest 2005'. This folder was within a folder entitled 'Campbell Falun Gong Make Poverty History'. Quantity: 41 digital photograph(s).

Date: 2008

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0007260

Description: Shows a scene at the Beijing Olympics where a man wearing a hat with the words 'One world, one dream' on it asks a security guard if he knows who let in a great crowd of people carrying a banner saying 'people's memories'. The guard says there are some things that even security cannot keep out. Refers to the tension between the modern China and the memories that people have of recent times. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2010

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0015873

Description: Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident who has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize sits in his rat-infested cell and stares at the bowl of gruel a prison guard has just delivered to him. The guard says that 'as a treat we add a little something to your gruel..' The Nobel Peace Prize is in the bowl of gruel. Refers to the news that China's best-known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, has won the Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power. The announcement provoked a furious reaction from Chinese authorities who say Liu Xiaobo is a criminal who has been sentenced by Chinese judicial departments for violating Chinese law. Announcing the prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee praised Liu Xiaobo for his "long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2005

From: Nisbet, Alastair, 1958- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0005420

Description: Shows two New Zealand media camera men in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China. One of them asks "This is Tiananmen Square! Can we shoot here?". His colleague replies "Why not? The Chinese did!" Refers to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which lead to a military crackdown on protesters by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government and left many civilians dead or injured. Published in The Press, 2 June 2005 Quantity: 1 digital image(s). Processing information: This cartoon file was donated to the library with no file extension. On recommendation of the Digital Archivist and with the consent of the donor, a ".jpg" file extension was added to this file in order to ensure it was readable and accessible.

Date: 2008

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0006396

Description: Shows three Chinese prisoners hanging from a wall by their wrists. An official nearby instructs anothe official not to bring anybody to the prison when the torch finally arrives. Refers to the Olympic torch arriving in Beijing where the 2008 Olympic Games will be held an a couple of months and there being issues over Chinese human rights behaviour. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0005531

Description: Shows three monkeys sitting on a bench; the first has its hands over its ears 'Hear no evil', the second has its hand over its eyes but has a mobile phone held to his ear 'See no evil' and the third has its hands over its mouth 'Speak no evil'. The monkey with the mobile phone says that the New Zealand Olympic Committee is on the phone saying that they have qualified for Beijing. Refers to the fact that the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) has backed down over plans to stop its athletes making political statements at this year's Beijing Games following government intervention. Keith Locke of the Greens said "One major reason for the Olympics being awarded to Beijing was to shine a light on the human rights situation and thus help advance the principles of freedom so central to the Olympic movement." Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).