Human Rights Record of the United States

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The Human Rights Record of the United States (informally referred to as the China Human Rights Report) is an annual publication of the Information Office of China's State Council, an agency of the government of the People's Republic of China. The report was begun in 1998 as a response to the United States' practice of criticizing China in its own annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. It is typically critical of various perceived shortcomings in U.S. domestic human rights, including difficulties with poverty, race relations, and high rates of both violent crime and incarceration. More recently, the report has condemned U.S. military actions abroad, particularly highlighting the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. The 2004 report stated:

In 2004 the atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the dark side of human rights performance of the United States. The scandal shocked the humanity and was condemned by the international community. It is quite ironic that on Feb. 28 of this year, the State Department of the United States once again posed as the 'the world human rights police' and released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2004. As in previous years, the reports pointed fingers at human rights situation in more than 190 countries and regions (including China) but kept silent on the US misdeeds in this field. Therefore, the world people have to probe the human rights record behind the Statue of Liberty in the United States.

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Categories: Human rights abuses | Violence | Torture