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Shall we issue the US Human rights report! (Part II and End)
Shall we issue the US Human rights report! (Part II and End)
15/1/16
Inequality
Although the U.S. is the most developed
country in the world, it is hard for the economic and social rights of its
citizens to be soundly ensured.
In the process of economic recovery,
the income inequality continued to be enlarged, the basic living conditions for
the homeless people deteriorated, the health care system operated terribly and
the education rights of average citizens were violated. In October 2014, the
United Nations Special Rapporteurs criticized the unprecedented water shut-offs
in Detroit disproportionately affected the most vulnerable and poorest people,
violating their right of access to drinking water and other international human
rights.
Inhumane treatment and torture of captured non-U.S.
citizens
However, the United States Government
has categorized a large number of people as unlawful combatants, a classification which
denies the privileges of prisoner of war (POW) designation of the Geneva Conventions.
Certain practices of the United States military and Central Intelligence Agency have been
widely condemned domestically and internationally as torture. To acquire
intelligence from suspects of terrorism and extremism, the CIA used brutal
methods, such as sleep deprivation, waterboarding, long-term solitary
confinement, slamming prisoners against the wall, lashing, death threat and
even "rectal rehydration" or rectal feeding.
A fierce debate regarding non-standard
interrogation techniques exists within the U.S. civilian and military
intelligence community, with no general consensus as to what practices under
what conditions are acceptable.
Abuse of prisoners is considered a
crime in the United States Uniform Code of Military Justice.
According to soem reports, there were 45 suspected or confirmed homicides while
in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan; Certainly 8, as many as 12, people
were tortured to death.
Health care
Unlike
most other industrialized nations, the United States does not offer most
of its citizens subsidized health care. The United States Medicare
program provides subsidized coverage to some categories of individuals and
families with low incomes and resources, including children, pregnant women,
and very low-income people with disabilities (higher-earning people with
disabilities do not qualify for Medicaid, although they do qualify for
Medicare). However, according to Medicaid's own documents, the Medicaid program
does not provide health care services, even for very poor persons, unless they
are in one of the designated eligibility groups.
There
were 46.6 million residents, or 15.9 percent without health insurance coverage.
This number includes about ten million non-citizens, millions more who are
eligible for Medicaid
but never applied, and 18 million with annual household incomes above $50,000.
According to a study led by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center, uninsured
children who are hospitalized are 60% more likely to die than children who are
covered by health insurance.
We can
obviously see how discriminated and violated human rights of health care access
that the Medicare is, but a radical one, the Obama Care now has encountered
many challenges and has hardly been passed in near future.
Unethical human experimentation
in the United States
Unethical human experimentation in the United States describes numerous experiments performed on
human test subjects in the United States that have been considered unethical,
and were often performed illegally, without the knowledge, consent,
or informed consent of the test subjects.
Funding
for many of the experiments was provided by United States government, especially the United States military, Central Intelligence Agency, or private
corporations involved with military activities. The human research programs
were usually highly secretive, and in many cases information about them was not
released until many years after the studies had been performed.
Public outrage in recent years over the
discovery of government experiments on human subjects led to numerous
congressional investigations and hearings.
Money
politics
Money is a deciding factor in the U.S.
politics, and the U.S. citizens' political rights were not properly protected.
Despite the highest midterm election
spending in history, general election voter turnout for the 2014 midterms was
the lowest since World War II.
"Dark money" flowed into
elections, and the voting rights of racial minorities and other groups were
intentionally suppressed. A few interest groups with power were able to
influence the government's decision-making.
The U.S. democratic system was
experiencing a crisis of representation. Ordinary citizens feel that their
supposedly democratic government no longer truly reflects their interests and
is under the control of a variety of shadowy elites.
Violations
elsewhere
While its own human rights situation is
increasingly grave, the U.S. has violated human rights in other countries in a
more brazen manner, and is given more "red cards" in the
international human rights field.
In the field of international human
rights, the U.S. has long refused to approve some core human rights conventions
of the United Nations and voted against some important UN human rights
resolutions.
National Security Agency and other
intelligence-gathering apparatus of the U.S. for a long time have spied on
world leaders and civilians.
Moreover, the U.S. continued to go even
further to violate human rights in other countries, including infringing the
privacy of citizens of other countries with the overseas monitoring project,
killing large numbers of innocent civilians of other countries in drone
strikes, and raping and killing locals by U.S. soldiers garrisoned overseas.
Just an outline, but we can see how
terrible of the Human rights record in the US. The U.S. made comments on the
human rights situations in many countries while showing not a bit of regret for
or intention to improve its own terrible human rights record. The United States
should reflect on its erroneous position and behavior on human rights, and stop
its unpopular interference with other countries' internal affairs under the
pretext of promoting human rights
In
conclusion, the United States is seen by social critics, including
international and domestic human rights groups and civil rights
organizations, as a state that violates fundamental human rights.
The US State Department reports on human rights
records of other countries are always full of distortions and accusations of
the human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions including
Vietnam. However, the United States turned a blind eye to its own terrible
human rights situation and seldom mentioned it. The United States uses the
human rights issues as "a political instrument to defame other nations'
image and seek its own strategic interests." These moves fully expose the
United States' hypocrisy by exercising double
standards on human rights and its malicious design to pursue
hegemony under the pretext of human rights./.
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All comments [ 11 ]
The U.S. was once condemned by a United Nations body for human rights failures, particularly with regard to racism and police murders of Black men and boys.
More than 100 international leaders raised concerns about U.S. human rights violations tied to police brutality, the death penalty, and the torture of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
America should look at itself before concerning other's affairs.
This report sends a strong message of no-confidence in the U.S. human rights record. It clearly demonstrates that the United States has a long way to go to live up to its human rights obligations and commitments.
Yes, this will be the last major human rights review for the Obama administration, and it offers a critical opportunity to shape the president’s human rights legacy, especially in the areas of racial justice, national security, and immigrants’ rights
So ironical that the US is always claimed as the most democratic and full of human rights, huh?!
Police officers must be punished for murdering people, people can’t take any more watered down solutions.
The U.S. has perpetuated anti-Blackness in international politics for years by pressing the UN to ignore irrefutable facts, documentation, statistics and testimony that prove racism and brutality against Blacks in the U.S. So hypocrite!
The U.S. is the world's worst human right abuser and tundra of a human being's rights to existence.
That's why 52 percent of the Americans have said that racism still exists in the country while 46 percent contended that all sorts of discrimination would be everlasting.
The U.S. government has monitored every movement of its citizens and foreigners, with many cameras and tapping devices and even drones involved, under the pretext of 'national security.
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