The Color Orange is an organization established in 2008 by Jens Galschiøt to highlight violations of

human rights in China Human rights in mainland China are periodically reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), on which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and various foreign governments an ...

on the occasion of the

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in Beijing August 2008. The organization uses the colour orange to peacefully bring notice to

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violations during this time.

Appeal

The color orange was used as a symbol used to protest against the

human rights violations Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...

in China. The main idea of The Color Orange was to give participants, visitors, and the Chinese population a possibility to send a signal to the world that something is wrong, by using an orange hat, camera bag, tie, pen, paper, dress, suit, bag, etc. The Color Orange organization described it as this: "The strict censorship can ban the use of obvious symbols of human rights, but the use of The Color Orange cannot be banned."

Relevant happenings

The ''Pillar of Shame'' painted orange

The Color Orange organization decided to paint the '' Pillar of Shame'' which has become a renowned memorial of the

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orange, to protest against the violation of human rights in China. The Danish artist Jens Galschiøt and his staff took a flight to

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in order to paint the ''Pillar of Shame'' orange. As the airplane landed April 26 he was denied access to Hong Kong in the airport. The

Chinese Democracy Movement Democracy movements of China are a series of organized political movements, inside and outside of China, addressing a variety of grievances, including objections to socialist bureaucratism and objections to the continuation of the one-party rul ...

decided to paint the sculpture orange by themselves to put focus on

Human Rights Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...

in China and show support to the worldwide project TheColorOrange about using Orange in connection to the Olympic Games 2008 to boost the awareness about the Human Rights violations in China. The painting of the sculpture was made by students from the University of

and by Chinese members of the Democracy Movement which has its base in Hong Kong. Amongst others, the Movement counts the chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Union, Cheuk Yan Lee, the poet, politician and unionist

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, the Human Rights lawyer

Albert Ho Albert Ho Chun-yan (; born 1 December 1951) is a solicitor and politician in Hong Kong. He is the former chairman (2014–2019) and vice-chair (2019–2021) of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, and ...

, the activist and artist Longhair, and several Hong Kong MPs.

Danish celebrities support 'The Color Orange'

In Denmark during the Chinese Olympics, The Color Orange launched a dressing up of

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with orange.

China’s OG website hacked

The Color Orange received an anonymous telephone call that hackers have changed the headlines of the official Chinese Olympic website into orange, the signal color of the human rights abuses in China.

Usain Bolt participation

During his 100 meters, sprint

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wore an orange bracelet, Jens Galschiøt states that he did not know

’s motives for wearing the bracelet. At the 2008 Olympic Games the orange color was said by The Color Orange Group to have been meant to protest

issues in China.a report was done by The Color Orange group
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