China issues 2003 US human rights record

China issued the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003 Monday in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003 issued by the U.S. on Feb. 25.

Released by the Information Office of China's State Council, the Chinese report listed a multitude of cases to show that serious violations of human rights exist on the homeland of the United States.

"As in any previous year, the United States once again acted as'the world human rights police' by distorting and censuring in the'reports' the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions across the world, including China. And just as usual, the United States once again 'omitted' its own long-standing malpractices and problems of human rights in the 'reports'. Therefore, we have to, as before, help the United States keep its human rights record," said the report.

The report reviewed the human rights record of the United States in 2003 from six perspectives: Life, Freedom and Safety; Political Rights and Freedom; Living Conditions of US Laborers; Racial Discrimination; Conditions of Women, Children and Elderly People; and Infringement upon Human Rights of Other Nations.

This is the fifth consecutive year that the Information Office of the State Council has issued human rights record of the United States to answer the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices issued annually by the State Department of the United States.

Laborers' rights not well-protected in the US
The United States has turned a blind eye to the rights and interests of common laborers, leading to serious problems like poverty, hunger and homeless people.

The disparity between the rich and the poor keeps widening in the US, says the record, the fifth of its kind issued by China, in response to the annual country reports on human rights by the United States.

A 2003 report by the Office of Management and Budget under the US Congress acknowledged that the gap between the rich and the poor in the country today is wider than anytime in the past seven decades, with the wealth of the country's richest 1 percent population exceeding the overall possessions of the needy, who account for 40 percent of the population. In 2000, the rich people's wealth make up 15.5 percent of the country's overall national income, as against 7.5 percent in 1979. A report by the US FederalReserve also showed that between 1998 and 2001, the wealth gap between the country's richest and poorest had widened by 70 percent.

The population living in poverty and hunger in the United States has been on a steady rise, says the record. According to statistics from the 2003 economic report of the US Census Bureau, the impoverished population in the United States had been increasing for two consecutive years, reaching 34.6 million, or 12.1 percent of the total population, in 2002, up 1.7 million over the previous year. The country's poverty ratio in 2002 had increased by 0.4 percentage points over the previous year.

In October, 2003, the United States Department of Agriculture released a report, which showed that in 2002 there were 12 million American families worrying about their food expenditures and 3.8 million families with members who actually suffered from hunger.

According to the human rights record, the homeless population continues to rise in the United States. According to information released by the US National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty,more than 3 million people were homeless in the United States in 2002. A survey released by the US Conference of Mayors in December2003 shows that requests for emergency shelter assistance increased by an average of 13 percent in the past year. Moreover, 88 percent of the cities surveyed predicted that the situation would be even worse in 2004.

Besides, the record points out there is a lack of work safety in the U.S.. New York Times quoted a survey of the US Occupational Safety & Health Administration as saying that in 20 years from 1982 to 2002, there were 1,242 cases involving the death of workers caused by the employers' "intended" violation of safety rules, yet 93 percent of the cases were not brought to the court.In these two decades, there were a total of 2,197 accidents caused by employers' violation of safety rules and resulted in death of the workers in the United States, yet the combined prison terms for employers involved were less than 30 years, says the record.

The situation of health insurance worsened among the American laborers, says the record. According to figures released by the US Census Bureau in September 2003, the number of Americans without health insurance climbed by 5.7 percent over 2001, to 43.6 millionin 2002, the largest single increase in a decade. Overall, 15.2 percent of the Americans were uninsured in 2002, the record says.

Rights of women, children and elderly people lack protection in the US
Little can be spoken of the human rights record in the US in view of protecting the rights of women, children and elderly people, according to the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2003.

It says American women can not enjoy the same rights as men to take part in government and political affairs, says the record. Statistics from the Center for American Women in Politics indicated that in 2003, women hold 59, or 13.6 percent, of the seats in the House of Representatives and 14, or 14 percent, of the seats in the Senate.

According to the record, in the United States, women are not entitled to equal treatment with regard to employment and income. American women are still largely pigeonholed in "pink collar" jobs, such as secretary, shop attendant and waitress, according toa report released by the American Association of University of Women in May, 2003.

Statistics from the US Department of Labor indicated that in 2002, the average weekly earnings for women aged 16 and above were 530 US dollars, or 77.9 percent of the 680 dollars for their male counterparts. The department said that there were twice as many as women whose earnings were below the Federal minimum wage, compared with men. There has been serious domestic and sexual violence against women, says the record.

According to a study by the US National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 92 percent of American women rank domestic and sexual violence as one of their top worries. One out of every three women experiences at least one physical assault during adulthood, however, only one out of seven cases of domestic violence drew the attention of the police.

According to the record, the protection of children provided inthe US is far below international standard. The United States isone of the only two countries in the world that have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of Children. Since 1980s, all the states in the US have lowered the age of criminal culpability against juvenile offenders, and in some states, juvenile offenders aged 10 even stood on trial in adult courts.

The US is the country that has handed most of the death penalties to juvenile offenders and carried out the executions in the world, the record says. According to a report released by theAmnesty International on Jan. 21, two-thirds of the documented executions of juvenile offenders in the world occurred in the US. Up to date, there 80 such juvenile prisoners on the death row waiting to be executed.

Moreover, among the developed nations, the United States ranks the first in the number of children living under the poverty line and the last in the span of its children's life expectancy. According to statistics released by the US Census Bureau in September 2003, 10.4 percent of all US minors lived in poverty by the definition of income in 2002, up to 13 million. And according to the United Nations Children's Fund, of the 27 well-off countries in the world, the United States ranks the first in the number of deaths of its children as result of violence and negligence.

The under-aged population are under threat in terms of physicaland mental health and they are usually the victims of sexual assault, says the record. According the US Federal Government, of all the children under the age of 18, 10 percent suffer from psychological illness of various levels. But only one fifth of them have been provided with medical treatment.

According to others reports, at least 1000 people were arrested in the United States for accused acts of eroticism targeting children since June 2003.

The record also reveals how the gray-haired are prejudiced against and mistreated, which led to higher rate of suicide among them. In the United States, people over the age of 65 account for 13 percent of the national population, and of all the people who committed suicide, the senior population account for 19 percent, it says. (to be continued)

Indeed. Americans should flog themselves over this horrible, damning report.Here's some other terrible facts you might not be aware of:

America also has a military that is partially financed by a massive slave labour prison system, and threatens it's democratic neighbors more or less constantly. Also, the American government keeps the world's only Stalinist state on life support, and helps them produce WMD.

Further, the government of the United States routinely hides public health crisises that endanger the whole world. I remember when the American Government hid the fact that a novel cronavirus had arisen and prevented it's effective containment. Boy, did the people of Canada really appreciate all the dead doctors and nurses.

I'm so pleased the government of China is taking an interest in human rights. Things like this might not get noticed otherwise.

Bwuhahaha... Let Great Britain or Spain rate our human rights record... They are legitimate. Otherwise, its just propaganda from one of the worst of human rights abusing counties.

Congressional Democrats are grateful for the free talking points...which will be coming to a ABCCBSNBCMSNBCCNNCNBCNYTWPLAT news report near you.

I predict that the CBC and NPR will be all over this.

Or wish they could! ;^)

the impoverished population in the United States had been increasing for two consecutive years, reaching 34.6 million,

In October, 2003, the United States Department of Agriculture released a report, which showed that in 2002 there were 12 million American families worrying about their food expenditures and 3.8 million families with members who actually suffered from hunger.

So, there's 34.6 million people in "poverty", but only 3.8 million families had at least one person actually go hungry at some point, including those that spent their kids' lunch money on cigs, drugs, booze, or lottery tickets. O-kay . . .

How are we doing in the area of government forced abortions?

I'm sure that our leaders will compromise on the feminist issues, just as they have incompetently done so to date.

Our conservative leaders and mainstream are clueless or even stupid (i.e., refusing to learn) with regards to feminism being pushed in the US from within and without. They continue to appease and install more feminist policy.

Mao, Marx, Engels, Lenin and others wrote of the necessity of using feminism to turn capitalist states into socialist states. That's exactly why China is pushing feminist policy for the USA while rejecting feminist social policy ("sexual freedom" and other irresponsibilities for women), itself. Early feminists in the US ushered creeping socialism into the US, and our leaders (corporates, politicians and the idiots who whisper in their ears) go on increasing it. Domineering women comprise much of the total of women getting into politics and business.

Singles don't vote conservative. Singles are in it for themselves. Singles vote socialist. Yet we demonize all men more and more each year and pass more stupid laws to unconstitutionally imprison (VAWA) and steal from fathers (divorce courts, alimony/support rip-offs). We're cruising for a socialism government, and our noisiest concerns miss the point (fathers' rights) with all of the stupidity about homosexual marriage and other distractions.

Our leaders whine and whine about the "women's" "swing vote." Well, to heck with it. Fathers and women who love them who know what's going on don't have a choice in the coming election. We'll give you a swing vote (of tens of millions of divorced dads, their friends, daughters, sons and parents). Hitlery's already had her way with dads who had run-around wives. She'll be after her competition in the marketplace, next.

Dig yourselves out. You pretended to be against abortion while attacking fatherhood by helping Hillary, Now, et al to pass the unconstitutional VAWA, Child Support Act, etc., instead of outlawing abortion. Thus, we have more divorces, fewer legitimate marriages and more kids growing up to remain single. They'll vote Democrat.

Wait... Do you feel those tremors? It's Hitlery, right behind Kerry. They're coming to socialize all business, fire all current condottieri and relegate all administration to their cronies. If you don't want this, put a stop to feminism (especially the divorced mom lobby) in the USA--now.

"Indeed. Americans should flog themselves over this horrible, damning report."

If you're into Political Science, you should also know that to a great extent, the Communist Revolution in China was an occurence of the young trading towns and provinces to murder the old.

The Chinese leaders are insidious hypocrites. Women in China are forced to keep it in their pants until they marry. The women there are so conditioned, that they are greatly insulted by anyone calling them "sexy," because they prefer to be regarded as being morally good.

As for Canada, the Pure Idiot Trudeau-ism that lives on there is sad, indeed. ...might try some form of Glasnost there to allow the publishing of more information, instead of, for example, jailing people for criticizing the homosexual lifestyle. The "human rights tribunal" violates human rights. Parents who spank their children will be jailed. Canada's political and social directions are ridiculous. And don't even get me started on that monstrous Canadia SOW office recently calling for imprisonments of men who publish criticisms against feminism!