China Tells U.N. Panel That It Respects Rights

[Coventina]

Source: Washington Post

United Nations delegates took China to task on its human rights record Monday, pressing officials about Tibet, labor camps, the death penalty, torture in custody and the treatment of dissidents, in a U.N. rights panel's first full review of the country's progress.

The Chinese delegation, led by Ambassador Li Baodong, defended the government's treatment of citizens, telling the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva that people in China are free to voice their opinions to the media and that the government opposes torture.

The questioning session was part of a review program started in 2007 that will examine all U.N. member states every four years.

In a report submitted before the proceedings, China emphasized that it believes human rights are related to economic growth. As standards of living have improved, it argues, so have political participation and the robustness of the judicial system.



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[WCGreen]

1. and lefts...

All hands work together for glorious leader...

[onehandle]

2. Don't anger our future masters.

Their retribution will be severe.

[tom_paine]

3. LOL> More proof that Commies and Bushies are cut from the SAME CLOTH.

I see ZERO difference in the lies this Commie is telling and 30 years of audacious, shameless Bushie Lies.

[GodlessBiker]

4. "People in China are free to voice their opinions to the media." Bwahahahahahaha.

[Coventina]

5. China Delivers Human Rights Report to UN; Amnesty Leads Critics

Source: Bloomberg

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China presents a report on human rights in the country to the United Nations today as groups such as Amnesty International said the submission isn’t thorough enough.

“The international community should respect the principle of the indivisibility of human rights and attach equal importance to civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights as well as the right to development,” China said in its submission prepared for the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The report, which will be officially adopted on Feb. 11, omits any references to abuses that are occurring across China, Amnesty International said last week. It fails to mention the unrest in Tibet last year, the crackdown on Uighurs in the western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and the persecution of religious followers, including members of Falun Gong, the London- based group said.

The UN’s council makes an assessment of a country’s human rights record every four years. China’s review in 2009 coincides with the 20th anniversary of the deadly crackdown on protesters at Beijing’s Tiananmen square, the 50th anniversary of China quelling an uprising in Tibet and the founding of the People’s Republic of China 60 years ago.



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