IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 141 
Calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to change the venue 
of the 2008 Olympic Games unless the People’s Republic of China 
makes significant progress in ending human rights abuses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 28, 2005 
Mr. TANCREDO (for himself and Mr. SMITH of New Jersey) submitted the fol-
lowing concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to 
change the venue of the 2008 Olympic Games unless 
the People’s Republic of China makes significant 
progress in ending human rights abuses. 
Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
has a long-standing history of human rights abuses and 
repressive tactics; 
Whereas China began a one-child policy in the late 1970s 
that has consistently been based on forced abortion and 
forced sterilization; 
Whereas the United States has for the last three years pro-
hibited United States funds for the United Nations Pop-
ulation Fund (UNFPA), charging that UNFPA’s support
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of China’s population planning programs allows Beijing 
to implement its policies of coercive abortion; 
Whereas according to the Department of State’s Report to 
Congress on China’s Birth Limitation Policy, dated July 
15, 2004: ‘‘A new national Law on Population and Birth- 
Planning went into effect on September 1, 2002. This 
law codifies on a national basis, for the first time, Chi-
na’s long-standing ‘one child policy’ and specifies a num-
ber of government birth-limitation measures that amount 
to coercion.’’; 
Whereas this report further states: ‘‘China continues to em-
ploy coercion in its birth planning program, including 
through severe penalties for ‘out of plan births’ . . . 
UNFPA continues its support and involvement in China’s 
coercive birth limitation program in counties where Chi-
na’s restrictive law and penalties are enforced by govern-
ment officials.’’; 
Whereas women in China are required to obtain a birth per-
mit from their work unit or local family planning office 
before ‘‘legally’’ becoming pregnant; 
Whereas so-called ‘‘social compensation’’ fees, imposed by the 
Chinese Government for violating the one-child policy, 
range from the equivalent of one half the local average 
annual household income to as much as 10 times that 
level; 
Whereas other coercive measures used to enforce China’s one- 
child policy include loss of employment and cutting off 
state-funded health care benefits or education for ‘‘out of 
plan’’ children; 
Whereas, despite the apparent attempt by China through its 
Law on Population and Birth-Planning to standardize
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birth-control policies and reduce corruption and coercion, 
the Department of State continues to report that China’s 
one-child family planning program remains a source of 
coercion, forced abortions, infanticide, and perilously im-
balanced boy-girl ratios; 
Whereas the Department of State further reports: ‘‘A high 
female suicide rate continued to be a serious problem. 
Many observers believed that violence against women and 
girls, discrimination in education and employment, the 
traditional preference for male children, the country’s 
birth limitation policies, and other societal factors con-
tributed to the especially high female suicide rate.’’; 
Whereas other human rights abuses documented by the De-
partment of State include instances of extrajudicial 
killings, torture and mistreatment of prisoners, forced 
confessions, arbitrary arrest and detention, lengthy in-
communicado detention, and denial of due process; 
Whereas human rights groups contend that traditional meth-
ods of execution are being replaced by mobile execution 
vans in which officials execute prisoners by lethal injec-
tion, harvest their organs without consent obtained prior 
to their execution, and then sell the organs for large 
amounts of money to foreign patients; 
Whereas China engages in forced repatriation of North Ko-
rean refugees and seizing of humanitarian workers, de-
spite China’s knowledge that these refugees face impris-
onment, torture, and even possibly execution upon their 
return to North Korea; 
Whereas the July 2002 United States-China Economic and 
Security Review Commission report to Congress stated: 
‘‘China is enhancing its capability to carry out attacks
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across the Taiwan Strait with its special operations 
forces, air forces and navy and missiles forces.’’; 
Whereas China continues to threaten the security of Taiwan’s 
23 million citizens by targeting Taiwan with approxi-
mately 500 ballistic missiles and refusing to renounce the 
use of force against Taiwan; 
Whereas Chinese military officials declared in a December 
2004 ‘‘White Paper’’ that China has ‘‘a sacred responsi-
bility’’ to ‘‘crush’’ a free and democratic Taiwan ‘‘at any 
cost’’; 
Whereas China recently enacted a so-called ‘‘anti-secession 
law’’ authorizing force against the nation of Taiwan in 
violation of China’s promise to resolve cross-strait dif-
ferences peacefully, which unilaterally changes the status 
quo and threatens security in the region; 
Whereas in awarding the 2008 Olympic Games to China, the 
International Olympic Committee (IOC) deceived itself by 
believing that the Olympic Games would bring greater 
transparency to what China claims is its improving 
human rights record; 
Whereas the Nazi propaganda machine proudly and arro-
gantly flaunted the 1936 Olympic Games as an example 
of the leadership of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, and 
the horrible miscalculation of the IOC lent credibility to 
a man and a regime that later slaughtered more than six 
million Jews; and 
Whereas the IOC made the same mistake again forty-four 
years later by granting the 1980 Olympic Games to the 
Soviet Union, and on the eve of those games, the host 
country launched a war with Afghanistan: Now, there-
fore, be it
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Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) recognizes the ongoing abuse by the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China of the most basic of human 
rights; 
(2) requests the International Olympic Com-
mittee (IOC) to acknowledge that the egregious vio-
lations of human rights by China should prevent 
China from hosting the 2008 Olympic Games; and 
(3) calls on the International Olympic Com-
mittee to change the venue of the 2008 Olympic 
Games unless China makes significant progress in 
ending human rights abuses, including by— 
(A) ending its one-child policy which re-
sults in forced abortions and sterilizations; 
(B) halting its violent persecution of North 
Korean refugees and releasing humanitarian 
workers that it has jailed; 
(C) discontinuing its intimidation of Tai-
wan’s 23 million citizens; 
(D) making public the number of execu-
tions that are carried out each year; 
(E) halting the practice of parading pris-
oners through the streets prior to executing 
them; and
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(F) no longer holding public executions in 
stadiums filled with spectators, including those 
which schoolchildren are required to attend. 
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