China News Agency, Beijing, October 8. The 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council closed on October 8.

During the conference, China, on behalf of many countries with similar views, exposed and criticized human rights abuses and the hypocrisy of human rights policies in the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia in many speeches.

Racism is deeply rooted

　　The representative of China made a joint speech on behalf of a group of countries on September 14 and 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 crimes in the history of the United States. Slave trade and slavery.

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 representative of China made a joint speech on September 24 on behalf of Russia, Belarus, North Korea, Eritrea, South Sudan, Venezuela and other countries with similar views. He pointed out that systemic racism and racial discrimination in the United Kingdom are deeply rooted, hate speech, xenophobia and related acts of violence are becoming more and more intense. Ethnic living conditions continue to deteriorate.

Poverty is a serious problem in the UK, with one third of families with children under 5 living in poverty.

　　On September 30, the representative of China made a joint speech on behalf of Syria, Belarus, Bolivia, Burundi, North Korea, Venezuela and other countries with similar views. He pointed out that Canada has long pursued a policy of ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide against indigenous people.

From the 1830s to the 1990s, 150,000 indigenous children were forcibly separated from their parents and sent to "boarding schools."

The "boarding school" environment is harsh, indigenous children are generally malnourished, many children are forced to labor, abused and raped, and even become "experiments" for anti-human medical experiments.

At least 4,000 indigenous children died abnormally in boarding schools.

Canada has long deliberately eliminated indigenous languages ​​and cultures. At present, there are less than 500 speakers of more than 40 indigenous languages.

Aboriginal women and girls in Canada have suffered widespread violence, including forced sterilization.

Aboriginal groups have long suffered systematic discrimination in Canadian society.

Take illegal military intervention

　　On September 14th, the representative of China made a joint statement on behalf of a group of countries, stating that the US and its allies have carried out military intervention in Afghanistan for 20 years, severely undermining Afghanistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, severely undermining Afghanistan’s economic and social development, and severely violating the human rights of the Afghan people. .

The US-led military intervention in Afghanistan is the root cause of the humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan.

As of April 2020, at least 47,000 Afghan civilians have been killed in the war in Afghanistan launched by the United States, and more than 10 million Afghans have been displaced.

The neighboring countries of Afghanistan are also severely affected by US-led military intervention.

　　On September 22, the representative of China made a joint speech on behalf of more than ten countries with similar views, including Russia, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Iran, and Laos, stating that the relevant countries have used "democracy" and "human rights" as an excuse to blatantly carry out illegal military interventions against sovereign countries and have long-term Occupation severely violates international law, severely undermines the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the victim country, severely undermines the economic and social development of the victim country, causes a large number of innocent civilian casualties and displacement, and seriously violates the human rights of the people of the victim country.

Relevant countries have also condoned their soldiers to illegally kill and torture civilians in the victimized countries, and commit serious war crimes and crimes against humanity. The perpetrators are still at large under the protection of their government.

　　On September 24, the representative of China made a joint speech on behalf of countries with similar views, stating that Britain has frequently conducted military interventions in other countries, causing a large number of civilian casualties and severely undermining the economic and social development of the interfered countries.

British soldiers indiscriminately killed innocent civilians, tortured, and committed serious crimes in overseas military operations, but the perpetrators were sheltered by the British government.

Indiscriminate unilateral coercive measures

　　The representative of China made a speech at the biennial symposium on unilateral coercive measures held on September 16 and pointed out that the United States and other Western countries have adopted unilateral coercive measures in accordance with domestic laws, abused long-arm jurisdiction, instigated "color revolutions" and subverted the regimes of other countries. It seriously violates the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, the fundamental principle of international law, sovereign equality, and the basic norm of international relations, which is non-interference in internal affairs.

　　The speech said that in the context of the continuous spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the international community urgently needs to unite and cooperate to meet various challenges.

However, the United States and some Western countries have refused to abolish unilateral coercive measures against relevant countries, and even intensified them. They have repeatedly imposed new sanctions in the name of protecting "freedom", "democracy" and "human rights", undermining international anti-epidemic cooperation, and depriving victims. The country's legal rights to medical treatment and vaccines have severely weakened its efforts to respond to the epidemic and post-epidemic recovery, directly endangering the rights of life and health of the people of the victimized countries, especially vulnerable groups such as women, children, and the elderly, and leading to humanitarian disasters.

　　On September 24, the representative of China made a joint speech on behalf of more than 20 countries with similar views, including Russia, Cuba, Sri Lanka, Iran, Tajikistan, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe, stating that some countries have turned a blind eye to their own human rights issues, and for political purposes, they used the excuse to interfere with human rights issues. Regardless of internal affairs, attempts to impose their own values ​​on others.

　　On October 4, the representative of China made a joint speech on behalf of more than ten countries with similar views, including Russia, Sri Lanka, Belarus, Iran, and Cambodia, opposing some countries’ attempts to instrument democratic issues on the pretext of “democracy” to contain and interfere with other countries.

The speech pointed out that the multipolarization of the world and the democratization of international relations are the trend of the times. Countries should practice true multilateralism, promote consultation and cooperation, and promote peace and development, so as to better promote and protect human rights, instead of drawing lines by ideology. , Artificially create divisions and confrontations.

All countries should strengthen solidarity and cooperation to jointly respond to global challenges and create a better future for the world.

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