China News Service, Geneva, September 14-The 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council held a dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Human Rights) on the 14th. Jiang Duan, Minister of the Permanent Mission of China to Geneva, made a joint speech on behalf of a group of countries. , Expressed deep concern about the serious human rights problems in the United States.
The joint speech pointed out that the United States ignores the people's right to life and health and has the world's most advanced medical equipment and technology, but it has become the country with the largest number of infections and deaths in the world.
The U.S. government does not go all out to fight the epidemic, but is keen on political manipulation of issues such as the traceability of the virus, in an attempt to dump other countries and shirk its own responsibility for failure in the fight against the epidemic.
The joint speech pointed out that systemic racism and racial discrimination have long existed in the United States. Minorities such as African Americans, Asians, and Muslims continue to suffer discrimination and harm. The root cause is the criminal slave trade and slavery in the history of the United States.
The United States committed genocide to Indians in the past, and it is still violating the rights of Indians.
The United States has arbitrarily imprisoned innocent immigrants for a long time and forced immigrant children to separate from their parents, leading to the breakdown of countless immigrant families.
The United States is also the hardest hit by human trafficking and forced labor.
The joint speeches stated that the United States, under the banner of "democracy" and "human rights", spread lies and false information, engages in power politics, interferes in the internal affairs of other countries, imposes its own model and values on others, and frequently implements unilateral coercive measures. Serious violations of the human rights of the people of the countries concerned, including preventing many countries from obtaining medicines and vaccines during the new crown pneumonia epidemic.
The war launched by the United States caused a large number of civilian casualties and displacement in other countries.
The joint speeches stated that the major changes in the situation in Afghanistan once again demonstrated that military intervention and power politics are unpopular, and imposing American "democracy" on others will only bring chaos and turmoil and doomed to failure.
Although the US military has withdrawn from Afghanistan, the crime of killing civilians in Afghanistan by the US military and its allies in the past 20 years must be investigated clearly, and the perpetrators must be brought to justice.
The joint speeches urged the United States to seriously reflect on and correct its mistakes, take concrete actions to solve its own serious human rights problems, stop forcibly promoting its own ideology and values, stop suppressing and rectifying other countries under the pretext of human rights, and stop military interference in other countries.
Call on the United Nations Human Rights Council and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to pay attention to the human rights issues in the United States, and urge the United States to earnestly fulfill its international human rights obligations.
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