BEIJING: China published a report on the United States’ human rights situation on Friday stating that “The U.S., a self-proclaimed human rights defender, saw no improvements in its existent human rights issues, but reported numerous new problems,”.
The report, titled “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2014,” was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China’s cabinet, in response to “the 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” issued by the U.S. State Department on June 25 local time.
While its own human rights situation was increasingly grave, the U.S. violated human rights in other countries in a more brazen manner, and was given more “red cards” in the international human rights field, according to the report.
The U.S. was haunted by spreading guns, frequent occurrence of violent crimes, which threatened citizens’ civil rights. The excessive use of force by police officers led to many deaths, sparking public outcry, the report says.
An unarmed 18-year-old African-American Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, a town in Missouri. After the grand jury of both Missouri and New York decided to bring no charges against the white police officer, massive protests broke out in more than 170 cities nationwide, it cites cn.nytimes.com as saying.
“The U.S. used cruel tortures indiscriminately, notably those carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),” it says.
Members of racial and ethnic minorities continued to be disproportionately arrested, incarcerated and subjected to harsher sentences.
Women Rights
The report quotes media reports as saying that 2.1 million American women on average were assaulted by men each year.
Three females were murdered by their partner each day, and four females died each day as a result of abuse.
Also, “millions of American children were homeless.” Three children died each day as a result of abuse. School violence and sex assaults were pervasive and gun shootings happened from time to time, it says.
