PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA issues HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD of USA in 2007.
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March 13, 2008
* Full Text: Human Rights Record of U. S. in 2007
Story Highlights:
* China issued on Thursday the Human Rights Record of the United
States in
2007
* The Chinese report listed U.S. violation of human rights in other
countries
* The report reviewed the U.S. human rights record in 2007 from seven
perspectives
BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) - China issued on Thursday the Human
Rights
Record of the United States in 2007 in response to the Country Reports
on
Human Rights Practices for 2007 issued by the U.S. Department of State
on
Tuesday.
Released by the Information Office of China's State Council, the
Chinese
report listed a multitude of cases to show the human rights situation
in the
United States and its violation of human rights in other countries.
The report says the United States reigns over other countries and
make
arrogant and malicious attacks on their human rights issues, but
mentions
nothing about its own human rights problems.
By publishing the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007,
the
report says it aims to "help the people have a better understanding of
the
real situation in the United States and as a reminder for the United
States
to reflect upon its own issues".
The report reviewed the human rights record of the United States in
2007
from seven perspectives: on life and personal security, on human
rights
violations by law enforcement and judicial departments, on civil and
political rights, on economic, social and cultural rights, on racial
discrimination, on rights of women and children and on the United
States'
violation of human rights in other countries.
The report says the increase of violent crimes in the United States
poses a
serious threat to its people's lives, liberty and personal security.
According to a FBI report on crime statistics released in September
2007,
1.41 million violent crimes were reported nationwide in 2006, an
increase of
1.9 percent over 2005.
Of the violent crimes, the estimated number of murders and
nonnegligent
manslaughters increased 1.8 percent, and that of robberies increased
7.2
percent
Throughout 2006, U.S. residents age 12 or above experienced an
estimated 25
million crimes of violence and theft, according to the FBI report.
In the United States, about 30,000 people die from gun wounds every
year,
according to a Reuters story on December 19, 2007.
The USA Today reported on December 5, 2007 gun killings have climbed
13
percent overall since 2002.
On April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech University witnessed the
deadliest
shooting rampage in modern U.S. history with 33 killed and more than
30
others injured, according to AFP.
Two separate gun killings in the Salt Lake City and Philadelphia
claimed
eight lives and injured several other people on February 12, 2007,
according
to the Associated Press.
The report points out that law enforcement and judicial departments in
the
United States have abused their power and seriously violated the
freedom and
rights of its citizens.
Cases in which U.S. law enforcement authorities allegedly violated
victims'
civil rights increased by 25 percent from fiscal year 2001 to 2007
over the
previous seven years, according to statistics from U.S. Department of
Justice.
However, the majority of law enforcement officers accused of brutality
were
not prosecuted in the end.
=46rom May 2001 to June 2006, 2,451 police officers in Chicago received
4 to
10 complaints each, 662 of them received more than 10 complaints each,
but
only 22 were punished. Furthermore, there were officers who had
amassed more
than 50 abuse complaints but were never disciplined in any fashion,
according to statistics released by University of Chicago.
The United States of America is the world's largest prison and has
the
highest inmates/population ratio in the world. A December 5, 2007
report by
EFE news agency quoted statistics of U.S. Department of Justice as
saying
that the number of inmates in U.S. prisons have increased by 500
percent
over the last 30 years.
The freedom and rights of individual citizens are being increasingly
marginalized in the United States, the report says.
Workers' right to unionize has been restricted in the United States.
It was
reported that union membership fell by 326,000 in 2006, bringing the
percentage of employees in unions to 12 percent, down from 20 percent
in
1983.
Employer resistance stopped 53 percent of nonunion workers from
joining a
union, The New York Times reported on January 26, 2007.
According to a report by the Human Rights Watch, when Wal-Mart stores
faced
unionization drives, the company often broke the law by, for example,
eavesdropping on workers, training surveillance cameras on them and
firing
those who favored unions.
In the United States, money is "mother's milk" for politics while
elections
are "games" for the wealthy, highlighting the hypocrisy of the U.S.
democracy, which has been fully borne out by the 2008 presidential
election.
The "financial threshold" for participating in the U.S. presidential
election is becoming higher and higher. At least 10 of the 20-strong
major
party candidates who are seeking the U.S. presidency in general
elections in
2008 are millionaires, according to a report by Spanish news agency
EFE on
May 18, 2007.
The French news agency AFP reported on January 15, 2007 that the 2008
presidential election will be the most expensive race in history. The
cost
of the last presidential campaign in 2004, considered a peak for its
time,
was 693 million U.S. dollars. Common estimates of this year's total
outlay
have tended to come in at around 1 billion U.S dollars, and Fortune
magazine
recently upped its overall cost projection to 3 billion U.S. dollars.
The U.S. administration manipulated the press. On October 23, 2007,
the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staged a news conference
on
California wildfires.
A half-dozen questions were asked within 15 minutes at the event by
FEMA
staff members posing as reporters.
The news was aired by U.S-based television stations. After the
Washington
Post disclosed the farce, FEMA tried to defend itself for staging the
fake
briefing.
The report says that the deserved economic, social and cultural rights
of
U.S. citizens have not been properly protected.
Poor population in the United States is constantly increasing.
According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau in August
2007,
the official poverty rate in 2006 was 12.3 percent.
There were 36.5 million people, or 7.7 million families living in
poverty in
2006. In another word, almost one out of eight U.S. citizens lives in
poverty.
The wealth of the richest group in the United States has rapidly
expanded in
recent years, widening the earning gap between the rich and poor. The
earnings of the highest one percent of the population accounted for
21.2
percent of U.S. total national income in 2005, compared with 19
percent in
2004.
The earnings of the lowest 50 percent of the population accounted for
12.8
percent of the total national income in 2005, down from 13.4 percent
in
2004, according to Reuters.
Hungry and homeless people have increased significantly in U.S.
cities. The
U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a report released on November
14,
2007 that at least 35.5 million people in the United States, including
12.63
million children, went hungry in 2006, an increase of 390,000 from
2005.
About 11 million people lived in "very low food security", according
to
Reuters.
People without health insurance have been increasing in the United
States. A
Reuters report on September 20, 2007 quoted the U.S. Census Bureau as
saying
that 47 million people in the United States were not covered by
health
insurance.
Racial discrimination is a deep-rooted social illness in the United
States,
the report says.
Black people and other minor ethnic groups live in the bottom of the
U.S.
society.
According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau in August
2007,
median income of black households was 31,969 U.S. dollars in 2006, or
61
percent of that for non-Hispanic white households. Median income for
Hispanic households stood at 37,781 U.S. dollars, 72 percent of that
for
non-Hispanic white households.
The rates of blacks and Hispanics living in poverty and without
health
insurance are much higher than non-Hispanic whites, according to
Washington
Observer Weekly.
Ethnic minorities have been subject to racial discrimination in
employment
and workplace. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in November
2007,
the unemployment rate for Black Americans was 8.4 percent, twice that
of
non-Hispanic Whites (4.2 percent).
The unemployment rate for Hispanics was 5.7 percent. The jobless rates
among
blacks and Hispanics were much higher than that for non-Hispanic
Whites.
Racial discrimination in the U.S. judicial system is shocking.
According to
the 2007 annual report on the state of black Americans issued by the
National Urban League (NUL), African Americans (especially males) are
more
likely than whites to be convicted and sentenced to longer terms.
Blacks are
seven times more likely than Whites to be incarcerated.
The report says the conditions of women and children in the United
States
are worrisome.
Women account for 51 percent of the U.S. population, but there are
only 86
women serving in the 110th U.S. Congress. Women hold 16, or 16.0
percent of
the 100 seats in the Senate and 70, or 16.1percent of the 435 seats in
the
House of Representatives.
In December 2007, there were 76 women serving in statewide elective
executive offices, accounting for 24.1 percent of the total. The
proportion
of women in state legislature is 23.5 percent.
Discrimination against women is pervasive in U.S. job market and
workplaces.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it received
23,247
charges on sex-based discrimination in 2006, accounting for 30.7
percent of
the total discrimination charges.
The living conditions of U.S. children are of great concern. Houston
Chronicle reported that a survey by the United Nations on 21 rich
countries
showed that though the United States was among the world's richest
nations,
its ranked only the 20th in the overall well-being of children.
U.S. juveniles often fall victims of abuses and crimes. According to
a
report on school crimes in the United States released by the
Department of
Justice in December 2007, 57 out of one thousand U.S. students above
the age
of 12 were victims of violence and property crimes in 2005.
Millions of underage girls become sex slaves in the United States.
Statistics from the Department of Justice show some 100,000 to three
million
U.S. children under the age of 18 are involved in prostitution. A FBI
report
says as high as 40 percent of forced prostitutes are minors.
The report says the United States has a notorious record of trampling
on the
sovereignty of and violating human rights in other countries.
The invasion of Iraq by U.S. troops has produced the biggest human
rights
tragedy and the greatest humanitarian disaster in modern world. It
was
reported that since the invasion in 2003, 660,000 Iraqis have died, of
which
99 percent were civilians. That translates into a daily toll of 450.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the number of civilian deaths in
Iraq
has exceeded one million. A report from the United Nations Children's
Fund
(UNICEF) revealed that about one million Iraqis were homeless, half of
whom
were children.
U.S. troops have killed many innocent civilians in the anti-terrorism
war in
Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported on May 3, 2007 that as many
as 51
civilians were killed by U.S. soldiers in one week (Karzai Says
Civilian
Toll is No Longer Acceptable, The Washington Post, May 3, 2007).
An Afghan human rights group said in a report that U.S. marine unit
fired
indiscriminately at pedestrians, people in cars, buses and taxis along
a
10-mile stretch of road in Nangahar province on March 4, 2007, killing
12
civilians, including one infant and three elders (New York Times,
April 15,
2007).
U.S. human rights records can be best described as tattered and
shocking.
The facts enlisted above are only a tip of an iceberg, the report
says.
It is high time for the U.S. government to face its own human rights
problems with courage, take actions to improve its own human rights
records
and give up the unwise practices of applying double standards on
human
rights issues and using it to suppress other countries, according to
the
report.
This is the ninth consecutive year that the Information Office of the
State
Council has issued human rights record of the United States to answer
the
U.S. State Department annual report.
* Full Text: Human Rights Record of U. S. in 2007
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* Workers' right to unionize restricted in U.S.
* U.S. authorities improperly obtain citizen's personal information
* Abusing the inmates is commonplace in U.S.
* About 30,000 people die from gun wounds every year in U.S.
* One out of eight U.S. citizens lives in poverty
* More people in U.S. go hungry, homeless
* Money and work become biggest stressors for majority U.S. people
* About 47 mln people in U.S. not covered by health insurance
* U.S. troops often abuse prisoners in its worldwide jails
* On average, 450 civilians die daily since Iraqi war
* Some 1,400 women beaten to death by partners in U.S.
* Racial discrimination deep-rooted social illness in U.S.
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