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Full text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013
BEIJING, Feb. 28
(Xinhua) -- The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of
China published a report titled "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013" on
Friday.
Following is the
report's full text:
Human Rights Record of the United States in
2013
State Council
Information Office of the People's Republic of China
Foreword
The State Department of
the United States, which posed as "the world judge of human rights,"
made arbitrary attacks and irresponsible remarks on the human rights situation
in almost 200 countries and regions again in its just-released Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices for 2013. However, the U.S. carefully concealed and
avoided mentioning its own human rights problems. In fact, there were still
serious human rights problems in the U.S in 2013, with the situation in many
fields even deteriorating.
-- In 2013, 137 people
died in 30 mass killings, which caused four or more deaths each, in the U.S.. A
shooting rampage in the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in
Washington, D.C. left 12 people dead.
-- The U.S. engaged in a
tapping program, code-named PRISM, exercising long-term and vast surveillance
both at home and abroad. The program is a blatant violation of international
law and seriously infringes on human rights.
-- The use of solitary
confinement is prevalent in the U.S.. About 80,000 U.S. prisoners are in
solitary confinement in the country. Some have even been held in solitary
confinement for over 40 years.
-- The U.S. still faces
grave employment situation with its unemployment rate remained high. Rates of
unemployment for the lowest-income families have topped 21 percent. The
homeless population in the U.S. kept swelling and it had climbed 16 percent
from 2011 to 2013.
-- There are a large
amount of child laborers in the agricultural sector in the U.S. and their
physical and mental health was seriously harmed.
-- Frequent drone
strikes by the U.S. in countries including Pakistan and Yemen have caused heavy
civilian casualties. The U.S. has carried out 376 drone strikes in Pakistan
since 2004, causing deaths of up to 926 civilians.
-- The U.S. remains a
country which has not ratified or participated in a series of core UN conventions
on human rights, such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and
the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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