Chinese Government Poses Global Threat to Human Rights
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(New York, January 14,
2020) – The Chinese
government is carrying out an intense attack on
the global system for defending human rights, Kenneth Roth,
executive director at Human Rights Watch, said today in releasing Human Rights
Watch’s World Report 2020. Decades
of progress that have allowed people around the world to speak freely, live
without fear of arbitrary imprisonment and torture, and enjoy other human
rights are at risk, Roth said.
At home, the Chinese government has created a vast surveillance state in its efforts to achieve total social control. It is now increasingly using its economic and diplomatic clout to fend off global efforts abroad to hold it to account for its repression. To preserve the international human rights system as a meaningful check on repression, governments should band together to counter Beijing’s attacks.
At home, the Chinese government has created a vast surveillance state in its efforts to achieve total social control. It is now increasingly using its economic and diplomatic clout to fend off global efforts abroad to hold it to account for its repression. To preserve the international human rights system as a meaningful check on repression, governments should band together to counter Beijing’s attacks.
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