Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 11th: The Human Rights Research Society of China published the article "New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Emphasizes "American Human Rights" Crisis" on the 11th, exposing the US government's short-sighted self-interest, inefficiency and irresponsibility in the epidemic. The tragedy of the infection of 2 million Americans and the death of more than 110,000 people have continued to aggravate the long-standing problems of social tearing, differentiation of the rich and the poor, racial discrimination, and weak protection of the rights and interests of vulnerable groups in the United States, causing the American people to fall into a serious human rights disaster.
Ignore the early warning of the epidemic, give priority to capital interests, and politicize the issue of anti-epidemic... The article points out that after the outbreak of the United States, some American politicians did not put the protection of people’s lives and health in the first place, but regarded the outbreak as an attack on political opponents. Weapons and opportunities to seize power and partisan interests, and prioritize capital market responses, have led the government to neither effectively warn the public nor prepare for potential medical resource consumption, pushing the American people to the brink of infection and death.
At the same time, inequality in American society was exposed in the epidemic. The article believes that the epidemic has made the living conditions of the people at the bottom of the United States more difficult, and has further deepened the social polarization between rich and poor. Faced with the high unemployment rate brought about by the epidemic, the American working-class is in a crisis of survival. Vulnerable groups in the United States survived the epidemic. The elderly have become the victims of the government’s ineffectiveness in fighting the epidemic. The homeless have nowhere to place in the epidemic. The situation of poor children and immigrant children is worrying.
The article revealed that racial discrimination in the United States has intensified in the epidemic. Asian groups suffered severe stigmatization attacks, African and Hispanic people suffered huge racial inequalities in the epidemic, and racist violence occurred frequently. Recently, George Floyd, an African-American man from Minnesota, was killed by violent law enforcement by white police officers, triggering large-scale protests and demonstrations across the United States, highlighting the dissatisfaction and anger of the American people about racial discrimination.
Ineffective anti-epidemic violations of the national obligation of "protecting the right to life", maliciously "stigmatizing" China in violation of the principles of equality and non-discrimination, suspending WHO's dues to hinder global joint anti-epidemic, and unilateral sanctions violate the principles of humanitarianism and international cooperation … The article emphasizes that in the face of this struggle between humanity and viruses, the US government is wielding the hegemony stick to fan the flames, trying to divert its attention and shirk its responsibilities, seriously undermine the solidarity and cooperation of the international community to deal with the epidemic, and seriously deviate from the spirit of international human rights law.