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China rates US human rights
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IN response to the Universal Declaration on Human Rights of the year 2000 issued on Monday by the US State Department, the Chinese Government yesterday released an article headlined "US Human Rights Record in 2000" detailing rampant infringement of human rights in the United States.
This is the second consecutive year that the Chinese Government, through the Information Office of the State Council, has released an article on the US human rights record.
The article said that the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices --- 2000 issued by the US State Department denounced more than 190 countries in the world, including China, for their human rights conditions, and falsely accused these countries of certain abuses.
At the same time, the US report on human rights around the world had nothing to say about America's own human rights situation, the article said.
Citing a number of examples and cases, the six-part article dispelled the myth of “American Democracy", giving a blow-by-blow account of human rights violations in the US, such as escalating violence, unfair judicial practice, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, widespread gender discrimination and racial discrimination, ill-treatment of children and minorities, as well as its arbitrary interference in the human rights issues of other countries.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue also strongly condemned the US report.
“The Chinese side expresses strong dissatisfaction and strong opposition to the methods taken by the United States," she said.
“We demand that the US abide by the basic norms of international relations, correct its wrongdoings and stop using so-called human rights issues to interfere in China's internal affairs."(SD-Xinhua)
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