Talking about human rights, destroying human rights and seeking hegemony -- the United States is a serious threat to global human rights governance

2021-12-29

"In order to safeguard its own political interests and global hegemony, the United States has vigorously politicized human rights in the field of international human rights and adopted selective, double standards, unilateral coercion and other means, which has seriously eroded the important foundation for the support and operation of global human rights governance, posed a major threat to the development of global human rights, and produced extremely bad and destructive consequences." The Research Report on "the politicization of human rights in the United States undermines the foundation of good human rights governance" issued by the China Human Rights Research Association on December 27 pointed out that. This report systematically combs the historical development of the politicization of human rights in the United States, deeply analyzes the deep causes and manifestations of the politicization of human rights in the United States, and deeply points out the disastrous impact of the politicization of human rights in the United States on global human rights governance. Human rights is a great term. Human rights for all are the common pursuit of all mankind. Since World War II, with the joint efforts of the international community, the cause of international human rights has developed rapidly, and global human rights governance has entered the stage of institutionalization and rule of law. At the same time, the politicization of human rights led by the United States goes against the historical trend and seriously threatens the healthy development of global human rights governance. For a certain political motive, the United States deals with human rights with a pragmatic attitude and alienates human rights into a tool to realize its own political interests. Although the United States has always advertised itself as a model for safeguarding the value of human rights, history and reality have eloquently proved how clear its words and deeds are on the issue of human rights. Before the 1970s, the United States, where apartheid prevailed, had been reluctant, indifferent and even rejecting international human rights standards. From the 1970s to the end of the cold war, the United States turned to human rights diplomacy and used human rights as a political tool against the Soviet Union. After the cold war, the United States imposed its own human rights values on other countries, suppressed countries with different political systems, and maintained its global hegemony. In fact, whether it is the early disregard or even rejection of human rights, or the later enthusiasm to wave human rights everywhere as a big stick, in essence, the United States regards human rights as a tool of political struggle and determines its attitude towards human rights according to the fit between human rights and its political strategy. In this regard, the realistic attitude of the United States taking national interests as the basis of foreign policy is consistent. Although the United States attempts to enhance the moral appeal of its foreign policy through human rights diplomacy, the politicization of human rights has made the world see more and more the ugly words and deeds of the United States that respect itself, alienate human rights and kill human lives. In the face of the conflict between its global strategy and international human rights standards, the United States may abandon human rights principles and show its hegemony naked; Or selectively apply human rights principles according to their own political interests; Or directly use human rights as an excuse to label countries that threaten their own political interests as "violations of human rights" and put on a moral cloak for violating the sovereignty of other countries. It can be seen that no matter how the human rights policy of the United States changes, its starting point for safeguarding its own interests remains unchanged. Global human rights governance is first and foremost the rule of international law. To promote global human rights governance, we must abide by international law and norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. The United States has always advocated a "rule-based international order", but it has adopted double standards for human rights rules. On the one hand, while asking other countries to respect human rights, the United States has adopted a practical attitude of "application if applicable and abandonment if not" to international human rights standards; On the other hand, the United States often distinguishes between "enemies" and "friends", applies human rights norms with double standards, and deliberately creates division and undermines unity in the field of human rights. The United States pursues one set of standards for human rights issues in its own country and another set of standards for human rights issues in other countries; Pursue one set of standards for their allies or friendly countries, and another set of standards for countries with different ideologies, political and social systems or conflicting interests; Adopt different human rights standards for the same country at different times; Adopt different attitudes towards human rights in different periods and on different issues; Take different attitudes towards different types of rights, highlight the right to freedom, dilute or even deny the right to survival and development. The United States is not only a model student of human rights, but a serious threat to global human rights governance. The politicization of human rights in the United States has eroded and damaged the foundation of good governance of global human rights and brought disastrous consequences to the global cause of human rights. The demarcation of the United States by political interests blocks the possibility of normal dialogue between different human rights views, and turns the international human rights institutions into a battlefield of political confrontation. The United States intervened in the internal affairs of other countries under the pretext of human rights, resulting in wars and loss of life in the countries interfered and invaded, resulting in new humanitarian disasters. This not only affects the healthy development of global human rights governance, but also makes the human rights situation in the United States not improve for a long time. The United States regards human rights as a tool to realize its global strategy and defiles the lofty ideal of global human rights. The politicization of human rights in the United States is a profound negative teaching material. The consequences of the politicization of human rights in the United States have made people increasingly realize that the non politicization of human rights is the basis and premise for the smooth progress of global human rights governance, and preventing and curbing the politicization of human rights is an important guarantee for the healthy development of the world human rights cause. (outlook new era)

Edit:Ming Wu    Responsible editor:Haoxuan Qi

Source:gmw.cn

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