Foreign scholars criticize the American human rights report： they are full of human rights abuses and are not qualified to criticize other countries.

The National Human Rights Report 2021 released by the State Council on the 12th was condemned by many governments and scholars. (data map)

　　Overseas Network April 18thThe National Human Rights Report 2021 released by the State Council on the 12th was condemned by many governments and scholars. On 17th, ASEAN Post published a column by Philippine scholar Anna Rosario Malinda-Uy, criticizing the double standards and hypocrisy of the United States. The article points out that the human rights situation in the United States is so bad that it is not qualified to criticize other countries.

　　The article mentioned that the United States unscrupulously accused and attacked other countries’ human rights and adopted a double standard and hypocritical attitude, as if the United States occupied the moral commanding heights and ethical advantages on human rights issues, as if the United States was a "world human rights judge and role model", which was unbelievable. In fact, the United States is not suitable to serve as a human rights model for other countries to follow. The United States is by far one of the most brazen countries in the field of international human rights, with many crimes. The United States often does not match its words with its deeds, but shamelessly accuses other countries of human rights, as if it had moral superiority and credibility.

　　It is worth noting that the United States is the only big country in the world that neither recognizes nor abides by the human rights treaties proposed by the United Nations and other human rights institutions. Although the United States claims to be a "defender of human rights in the world", it has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights. The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has not ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

　　The United States blindly condemns and criticizes human rights violations in other countries and regions, and its own human rights record is worse than expected in some cases. For example, Patrick Lyoya, a 25-year-old African-American resident, was shot dead in Michigan. The American white policeman knelt on Lyoya and shot him in the head, not out of self-defense. In the United States, cases of police brutality against colored people are common. George Freud, michael brown, brenner Taylor and jacob black were all black people who were killed unarmed and unprepared.

　　As far as the United States is concerned, from 2013 to May 2021, more than 9,000 people were killed by the police, which does not include the data in 2022. In 2021 alone, at least 1124 people died of police brutality. Most of the victims belong to non-violent crimes or no crimes at all. Undoubtedly, the United States is the country with the most cases of police violence. In addition, African-Americans and Native Americans are more abused by the police than whites, including non-lethal force, arbitrary arrest, detention and harassment, which is increasing day by day.

　　In recent years, cases related to gun violence in the United States are also increasing. Since 2022, the number of gun violence casualties in the United States has reached 21,000. In 2021, there were 693 mass shootings in the United States, 10.1% higher than in 2020, and more than 44,000 people died of gun violence. The public safety situation in the United States has gone downhill. There is no doubt that similar incidents happen in the United States almost every day, and the human rights situation in the United States is deteriorating day by day.

　　After the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, countless Asian Americans suffered racial attacks and discrimination, and such human rights-related violations are on the rise. This kind of incident is nothing new, but after the outbreak, racial discrimination and atrocities in the United States have dealt a heavier blow to Asian Americans.

　　In addition, in 2021, the southern border of the United States detained more than 1.7 million immigrants, including 45,000 children. Violent law enforcement in the United States caused 557 deaths, the highest number since 1998 and more than doubled the previous year. At the same time, the number of homeless Americans is also shocking. According to The New York Times’s report on December 19th, 2021, in San Francisco alone, one out of every 100 residents is homeless.

　　Externally, the wars launched by the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have caused more than 20 million people to become refugees or forced immigrants. Before the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, American drone air strikes killed ten Afghan families, including seven children, the youngest of whom was only 2 years old. In addition, so far, 39 people are still being held in Guantanamo prison by the United States.

　　In view of the above problems, it is necessary for us to ask, will the "human rights judge" of the United States take responsibility for solving his own poor human rights problems at home and abroad by pointing fingers at other countries’ human rights problems?

　　At the end of the article, it is written that indignation should be left to the truly righteous. The human rights record of the United States at home and abroad is so bad that there is no justice at all. It is a farce for the United States to educate the world about human rights. In view of its poor human rights record, the United States has neither moral superiority nor integrity. The United States needs to reflect on itself and solve its own human rights problems first, instead of pointing fingers at the human rights of other countries. (Overseas Network Sharla Cheung)