The United States often releases reports critical of China's human rights record, but over the last 10 years, China's human rights record has improved dramatically. Since 9/11 human rights have deteriorated drastically in the US. Well its finally reached the point where China can legitimately criticize the US human rights record and almost not sound hypocritical... almost.
Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
May 25, 2012
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011 on May 24, 2012. As in previous years, the reports are full of over-critical remarks on the human rights situation in nearly 200 countries and regions as well as distortions and accusations concerning the human rights cause in China. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and kept silent about it. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011 is hereby prepared to reveal the true human rights situation of the United States to people across the world and urge the United States to face up to its own doings.
Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011
Some valid points:
The US has high rates of violent crime, rape and child molestation.
Millions of Americans suffer food insecurity and homelessness.
Americans who protest non-violently are beaten and arrested. (Occupy Wall Street)
The US does not allow reporters to protect their sources.
The U.S. democracy is increasingly being influenced by capitalization and becoming a system for "master of money."
The U.S. remains the country with the largest "prison population" and the highest per capita level of imprisonment in the world,
Racial discrimination is rampant in some parts of the US.
The United States has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, nor the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The US has conducted medical experiments by infecting people with sexually transmitted diseases both domestically and internationally. (in the late 1940's)
Recent US led wars have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of serious injuries and made millions of people homeless.
Concluding paragraph:
The above-mentioned facts are but a small yet illustrative enough fraction of the United States' dismal record on its human rights situation. The United States' own tarnished human rights record has made it in no condition, on moral, political or legal basis, to act as the world's "human rights justice," to place itself above other countries and release the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices year after year to accuse and blame other countries. We hereby advise the U.S. government once again to look squarely at its own grave human rights problems, to stop the unpopular practices of taking human rights as a political instrument for interference in other countries' internal affairs, smearing other nations'images and seeking its own strategic interests, and to cease using double standards on human rights and pursuing hegemony under the pretext of human rights.
Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011
State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China
May 25, 2012
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011 on May 24, 2012. As in previous years, the reports are full of over-critical remarks on the human rights situation in nearly 200 countries and regions as well as distortions and accusations concerning the human rights cause in China. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own woeful human rights situation and kept silent about it. The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011 is hereby prepared to reveal the true human rights situation of the United States to people across the world and urge the United States to face up to its own doings.
Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011
Some valid points:
The US has high rates of violent crime, rape and child molestation.
Millions of Americans suffer food insecurity and homelessness.
Americans who protest non-violently are beaten and arrested. (Occupy Wall Street)
The US does not allow reporters to protect their sources.
The U.S. democracy is increasingly being influenced by capitalization and becoming a system for "master of money."
The U.S. remains the country with the largest "prison population" and the highest per capita level of imprisonment in the world,
Racial discrimination is rampant in some parts of the US.
The United States has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, nor the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The US has conducted medical experiments by infecting people with sexually transmitted diseases both domestically and internationally. (in the late 1940's)
Recent US led wars have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of serious injuries and made millions of people homeless.
Concluding paragraph:
The above-mentioned facts are but a small yet illustrative enough fraction of the United States' dismal record on its human rights situation. The United States' own tarnished human rights record has made it in no condition, on moral, political or legal basis, to act as the world's "human rights justice," to place itself above other countries and release the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices year after year to accuse and blame other countries. We hereby advise the U.S. government once again to look squarely at its own grave human rights problems, to stop the unpopular practices of taking human rights as a political instrument for interference in other countries' internal affairs, smearing other nations'images and seeking its own strategic interests, and to cease using double standards on human rights and pursuing hegemony under the pretext of human rights.