China exposes the USA’s double standards on human rights

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China exposes the USA’s double standards on human rights

March 14th, 2016

Awake Goy

TV documentary exposes U.S. double standards on human rights

The state-run China Central Television on Sunday aired a documentary that reveals the United States‘ double standards on human rights-related issues, whereby the U.S. pokes its nose into other countries’ internal affairs while leaving many of its own problems unsolved.

Based on extensive media reports both inside and outside the U.S., and interviews of many human rights experts from China, the U.S., France, Canada, Russia and Switzerland, the 45-minute TV program revealed the U.S. trampling on American people’s human rights in all walks of life.

In 2015, more than 560,000 people across the United States were homeless, 25 percent of whom were under age; the country’s primary women’s prison Lowell Correctional Institution, where 2,696 convicts are held, is rampant with corruption, torture of prisoners, and sexual abuse; women are subject to sexual harassment and sexual assaults of different forms, and career women subject to discrimination at work, the documentary showed, citing media reports.

Of teenagers aged 15 and above who succumb to injuries in the States, one quarter die in shooting incidents; the Federal Bureau of Investigation forces Internet companies to provide clients’ information without a court approval, according to the documentary.

The United States has been using double standards on practically every human rights-related issue, which is showcased both by its invasion of citizens’ privacy through online surveillance and civilian deaths caused by its drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and other countries, it showed.

For a very long time, the United States has been quite condescending, with the belief that it has the best system and human rights record, and as a result, it tends to find fault with other countries, Ji Hong, researcher with the Institute of American Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in the program.

BEIJING, March 11 (Xinhua) — China blasted U.S.-led criticism of its human rights record on Friday, reminding the U.S. that it should steer clear of domestic affairs and judicial sovereignty.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei was responding to concern expressed recently by the U.S. and 11 other countries over human rights in China at the Human Rights Council.Full Story

Human rights should not be politicized: Chinese diplomat

GENEVA, March 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese diplomat Fu Cong stressed here on Thursday the need to depoliticize the human rights forum so as to safeguard the Human Rights Council’s (HRC) integrity.

“We must maintain the credibility and authority of the international human rights mechanism and reverse the current trend to politicize human rights,” he said following the release of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein’s annual report.Full Story

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