Political Forum - View Single Post - communist china no longer viewed as human rights abuser

justabubba · #1 (**permalink**) 03-11-2008, 03:20 PM

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The US dropped China from its list of the world's worst human rights violaters, but added Syria, Uzbekistan and Sudan to the alleged offenders in an annual report released Tuesday.
The State Department's 2007 Human Rights Report showed China, which has raised hopes it will improve human rights by hosting the 2008 Olympics, had parted company with countries like North Korea, Myanmar and Iran.
No reason was given for removing China -- which has been a key partner in talks with Washington to denuclearize North Korea -- from the list but the new report said China's "overall human rights record remained poor" in 2007.

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what happened? did we have to throw that in to get them to lend us more money?

human rights watch letter to wen jiabao:

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March 3, 2008

Wen Jiabao, Premier
2 Fuyoujie
Xichengqu
Beijingshi 100017
People’s Republic of China

VIA FACSIMILE

Dear Premier Wen,

A year ago, on the eve of the plenary session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), we sent you a letter urging you launch key human rights legislative and policy reforms, followed up with specific steps to implement these reforms. Such steps would firmly establish respect for human rights as a central feature of China’s ongoing reforms, as part of your stated commitment to promoting social justice and building the rule of law. The letter, dated March 7, 2007, identified 10 key areas on which action was urgently needed, including:

Ratifying the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
Allowing nongovernmental organizations to register freely;
Ending repression of activists, petitioners and lawyers;
Narrowing the scope of application for state secrets laws;
Reversing the practice of censoring the internet and the media; and
Abolishing rather than reforming re-education-through-labor.

The letter is attached here.

We are greatly disappointed that the NPC and the government have failed to make any progress in these areas over the past year. Such a failure calls into question the government’s commitment to reform.

We urge you not to close this year’s session of the NPC without making progress on these issues, which are crucial to the life and well-being of millions of ordinary Chinese citizens.

In the year of the Olympics, the world is watching China. Now is the time to act.

Sincerely,

Brad Adams
Executive Director
Asia division

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/02/29/china18183.htm

while i am pro choice the silence from the anti-abortion crowd is deafening, recognizing that the government has a one child per family birth control edict in place. maybe there is no abortion and the law is followed by adopting the rhythm method

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Chen Guangcheng, profiled as one of Time's 100 People Who Shape Our World, "was confined to his home and beaten in August 2005 after organizing a class-action lawsuit against the local government over the practice of sterilization and forced late-term abortions," according to the report. He was tried on August 19 in the absence of counsel, partly because his lead lawyer, Li Jinsong, dropped his case in June after being attacked and having his car overturned while he was still inside, and partly because police detained other lawyers on his team on charges of theft the night before the trial. Chen Guangcheng was sentenced August 24 to more than four years in prison.

http://www.mattbarr.com/archives/200...o_you_cal.html

or maybe our government's leaders have found that they have much in common with the communist chinese leaders? maybe they will explain why china is no longer recognized by the USA for its human rights abuse. this ignoble change says more about our nation than about china