On Mar 15, 7:20=A0pm, Robin <Ri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA issues HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD of USA in 2007.
> Clearly, Yanks must be liberated from their Ziofascist Regime!
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> Xinhua
> 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 re****t listed U.S. violation of human rights in other
> countries
> * The re****t 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 Re****ts
> 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
> re****t 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 re****t 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 publi****ng the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007,
> the
> re****t 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 re****t 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 re****t 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 re****t on crime statistics released in September
> 2007,
> 1.41 million violent crimes were re****ted 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 re****t.
>
> 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 re****ted 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 re****t 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.
>
> From 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 fa****on,
> 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
> re****t 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 re****t says.
>
> Workers' right to unionize has been restricted in the United States.
> It was
> re****ted that union member****p 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 re****ted on January 26, 2007.
>
> According to a re****t 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 re****t by Spanish news agency
> EFE on
> May 18, 2007.
>
> The French news agency AFP re****ted 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 re****ters.
>
> The news was aired by U.S-based television stations. After the
> Wa****ngton
> Post disclosed the farce, FEMA tried to defend itself for staging the
> fake
> briefing.
>
> The re****t 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 re****t 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 re****t 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 re****t 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
> Wa****ngton
> 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 re****t 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 re****t 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
> pro****tion
> 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 Op****tunity Commission said it received
> 23,247
> charges on ***-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 re****ted 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
> re****t 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 *** 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
> re****t
> says as high as 40 percent of forced prostitutes are minors.
>
> The re****t 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
> re****ted 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 re****t 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 Wa****ngton Post re****ted 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 Wa****ngton Post, May 3, 2007).
>
> An Afghan human rights group said in a re****t 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 re****t
> 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
> re****t.
>
> 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 re****t.
>
> * Full Text: Human Rights Record of U. S. in 2007
>
> Related articles:
>
> * China to issue human rights record of the United States in 2007
> * China "ready to resume human rights dialogue with U.S."
> * Human rights expert outlines China's achievements
> * Facts & Figures: Human Rights Record in U.S. in 2007
> * "Cash race" has permeated various kinds of elections in U.S.
> * 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.
> =B7 About 17% of children in U.S. living in poverty
Musis si asi denne blahorecit ze jsi to uprchlicky vizum
do Ameriky nedostal ;-)
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