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Deterioration in key aspects of the country’s human rights situation continued. Repression and coercion, particularly against organizations and individuals involved in rights advocacy and public interest issues, were routine. Individuals and groups seen as politically sensitive by the authorities continued to face tight restrictions on their freedom to assemble, practice religion, and travel. Efforts to silence political activists and public interest lawyers were stepped up, and, increasingly, authorities resorted to extralegal measures including enforced disappearance, “soft detention,” and strict house arrest, including house arrest of family members, to prevent the public voicing of independent opinions. Public interest law firms that took on sensitive cases continued to face harassment, disbarment of legal staff, and closure. The authorities increased attempts to limit freedom of speech and to control the press, the Internet, and Internet access. The authorities continued severe cultural and religious repression of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and Tibetan areas. Abuses peaked around high-profile events, such as the visit of foreign officials, sensitive anniversaries, and in response to Internet-based calls for “Jasmine Revolution” protests.
As in previous years, citizens did not have the right to change their government. Other human rights problems during the year included: extrajudicial killings, including executions without due process; enforced disappearance and incommunicado detention, including prolonged illegal detentions at unofficial holding facilities known as “black jails”; torture and coerced confessions of prisoners; detention and harassment of lawyers, journalists, writers, dissidents, petitioners, and others who sought to peacefully exercise their rights under the law; a lack of due process in judicial proceedings; political control of courts and judges; closed trials; the use of administrative detention; restrictions on freedom to assemble, practice religion, and travel; failure to protect refugees and asylum seekers; pressure on other countries to forcibly return citizens to China; intense scrutiny of and restrictions on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs); discrimination against women, minorities, and persons with disabilities; a coercive birth limitation policy that in some cases resulted in forced abortion or forced sterilization; trafficking in persons; prohibitions on independent unions and a lack of protection for workers’ right to strike; and the use of forced labor, including prison labor. Corruption remained widespread.
The authorities prosecuted a number of abuses of power, particularly with regard to corruption. However, the internal disciplinary procedures of the CCP were opaque, and it was not clear whether human rights and administrative abuses were consistently punished.
but the USA as a country does not sanction human rights abuses
Sure we do - look at the number of rapes allowed to happen in American jails and prisons, often against suspects who have not even been charged, let alone been found guilty at trial, and some of whom are later shown to be completely innocent.
Just think if china and the UN could disarm the US citizens....
That is their intention.
The reality is that globalists (one worlders) like Gore and Soros are just front men for powerful men who see the world as their oyster. An armed society isn't something they can easily fleece, nor tolerate. If China, or Russia, or the EU, or the UN, can help expedite the disarming of Americans, than so be it.
The UN (as well as the FED) was a creation of Woodrow Wilson: "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." -Woodrow Wilson
He also said: Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
We should also remember that under Clinton, the UN started sending brigades to the southern states to train, not for war, but for martial law enforcement and tactical house to house S&S. We've had brigades here ever since.
Now we are selling vast chunks of land and key industries to China. There 's going to be a tipping point giving them more say about our rights than we have ourselves, rendering homeland security nothing more than a bad joke.
We don't have human rights problems in the United States. We have underground crime syndicates that perpetuate human rights abuses, such as human traffiking, but the USA as a country does not sanction human rights abuses, nor do we ignore them in order to further national progress.
Homosexual's With Hurt Feelingsâ„¢ are not human rights cases (for the inevitable whining that will undoubtedly follow this post).
Carpet bombing civilians in Pakistan is a human rights issue.
Why is anyone shocked by this.Its as said like the pot callig the kettle black and why so mnay turn to US when they want support for their rights as humans.
Carpet bombing civilians in Pakistan is a human rights issue.
I can understand that point of view, but I tend to defer international military excesses to Pentagon review. I still don't see the USA as a country that sanctions human rights abuses, but I certainly believe there's nothing wrong with dialogue about our military operations.
What reactions does Chinese government expects? Or is this just more "ammunition" for anyone who even remotely dislikes USA..
It seems in so far, they have used USA newspapers, blogs, magazines,etc.. government and other numbers and stats in order to publish the paper...
What is your opinion?
Depending on who is doing the defining or interpretation, one can make the argument that the human rights record of the USA is atrocious. The difference between us and China, however, is that we can freely talk about it, write about it, protest about it.
Depending on who is doing the defining or interpretation, one can make the argument that the human rights record of the USA is atrocious. The difference between us and China, however, is that we can freely talk about it, write about it, protest about it.
But have we been successful in changing our record?
Depending on who is doing the defining or interpretation, one can make the argument that the human rights record of the USA is atrocious. The difference between us and China, however, is that we can freely talk about it, write about it, protest about it.
Feel free to outline for us what those human rights abuses are. Thanks!
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