President Bush Urged to Speak on Religious Freedom at Olympics in Beijing

Human rights supporters point out China’s failure to keep promises to improve its human rights practices.

U.S. President George W. Bush delivers a speech from the porch of the Oval Office at the White House on July 31, 2008 in Washington, D.C. Shawn Thew/Getty Images ()

WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the Olympic Games less than two weeks away, the world’s supporters of human rights have shined a spotlight on China’s failure to keep promises made to the International Olympic Committee to improve policies and practices to uphold the core principals of the Olympic Charter including the “preservation of human dignity.”