The stark facts of the Unites States trampling on human rights have debunked its longtime branding as "human rights defender," said Chinese state media CCTV in an article published on Thursday.
The U.S. has been smearing and finger-pointing at the human rights conditions while problems of its domestic human rights situation piling up, the article said, referring to the "2020 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" released by the U.S. last week.
The article has pointed out five aspects of troublesome U.S. human rights conditions, which were elaborated in the report on human rights violations in the U.S. in 2020 issued by China's State Council Information Office on March 24.
It said that the disorder of American democracy has triggered political chaos, the U.S. ethnic minorities are devastated by racial discrimination, the U.S. has failed to effectively address the pandemic in the year 2020, the U.S. is witnessing growing polarization between the rich and the poor, and that U.S. has trampled on international rules, resulting in humanitarian disasters.
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The article also mentioned the recent crisis at the southern border of the U.S., as more than five thousand children have been separated from their parents by U.S. prosecutors and placed at one of those "child detention camps."
The U.S. has refused to recognize the current crisis and even restrained journalists from reporting on the actual situation inside the "child detention camps," the article said.
During the just-concluded 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the article continues, representatives of certain countries have pointed out that the U.S. has been exercising the "vaccine nationalism" despite the ravaging pandemic.
The U.S. refused to provide vaccines to other countries, including its allies, even though the amount it has stockpiled far exceeded the actual needs of its population, the article wrote.