At present, the United States is the States is the only country which publishes a report every year to pass judgements based on the concepts of value and human rights of its own upon human rights conditions in each of the more than 190 other countries and regions in the world. The U. S. State Department has never justified itself for this: what countries or what world meetings have ever granted the United States the "Global Judge of Human Rights" status and empowered it to place itself above all other countries of the world.

As is known to all, the principles of sovereignty equality and non-interference in other countries' internal affairs are the basic norms for the international law and country-to-country relations. They are also the very bedrock on which the United Nations has maintained its existence to this day.

The U. N. Charter stipulates in Article 2 that "The organization and its members… shall act in accordance with the following principles: 1. The organization is based on the principle of the sovereignty equality of all its members." Section 7 of Article 2 of the Charter states that "Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state." It is therefore understood that as even the United Nations is not entitled to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state, how cant the United States be in a position to make indiscreet remarks on the domestic affairs of other countries?

The "Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention and Interference in the Internal Affairs of States" adopted by 36/103 Resolution of the U. N. General Assembly on December 9, 1981, contains the following explicit provision: "No State or group of States has the right to intervene or to interfere, in any form or for any reason whatsoever, in the internal or external affairs of any other State". The "Declaration" also contains a special provision on the issues of human rights: every state has the duty "to refrain from the exploitation and the distortion of human rights issues as a means of interference in the internal affairs of States, or exerting pressure on other States or creating distrust and disorder within and among States or groups of States." Although the United States is a member of the United Nations, the U.S. State Department has published a human rights report each and every year in an out-and-out interference in the internal affairs of other countries. What regard does the United States have for the U. N. Charter and the U. N. declarations and resolution quoted in the proceeding paragraphs?

human rights are in essence matters within the jurisdiction of each country, and countries should exert themselves to safeguard and promote human rights in their own territories instead of hankering after lecturing or finding faults with others on the issue.

As a matter of fact, the United States itself has grave human rights problems. The U. S. Government admitted last year that the homeless in the country numbered seven million, of whom two or three million lived on the streets.

According to a report from the U. S. Bureau of Census on October 6,1994, the number of poor people in the U. S. had been on a rise for four consecutive years, reaching a record 39.3 million in 1993-15.1 percent of the country's population. In the 1992-1993 period alone, d1.3 million more were added to the list of the poor. And children living in poverty accounted for 22.7 percent of all U. S. children, the highest level in the past 30 years.

Americans' lives are threatened, the number of people killed or wounded by bullets exceeding all other countries. The situation is particularly grave in Washington D. C., the U. S. capital, which the world media call "the capital of murder". Statistics from the U. S. Department of Education indicated that 21 percent of the 12.5 million high school students went to school with guns.

According to a Reuter dispatch from Washington on September 12,1994, the United States had a total of 1.3 million prison inmates - averaging 519 in every 100,000 Americans and representing the highest ratio of its kind in the world.

Racial discrimination in the U. S. has long been notorious throughout the globe. The U. S. Government has admitted that for the past 20 years, the rate of unemployed blacks in the country has been two or three times as great as that of the whites, while the rate of blacks with higher education was only half of that of the whites. In 1993, 33.1 percent of blacks lived below the poverty line. And the blacks' death rate of 1.77 percent is twice as great as the whites' 0.82 percent (China has a death rate of 0.66 percent).

Up till now, the United States has refused to accede to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, which were adopted by the U. N. General Assembly in December 1965 and 1973, respectively.

If the U. S. Government is sincere about human rights, it should do its utmost to improve the abominable human rights conditions in its own country, rather than covering them up by attacking others on the issue.

The United States has up to now refused to accede to The Convention against Torture and other Inhumane or Degrading Treatment or Punishment passed by the United Nations in 1984. However, the U. S. State Department issues a "human Rights Report" every year, which mainly talks about the conditions of criminals in other countries, criticizing other countries for not properly treating criminals, and castigating their legal and judicial systems according to the U. S. criterion.

A criminal should, of course, enjoy the rights that he or she is entitled to, and governments of all countries should, of course, respect his human dignity and guarantee his legal rights. But, criminals after all account for only a very small part of the population. Moreover, the reason why they become criminals is that they have violated the laws of their countries and infringed upon the human rights of other people. It is natural to punish, according to law, criminals who have infringed upon the human rights of other people in order to safeguard human rights. A criminal should be equal before the law as other people, and he or she should not avoid being punished by law only because he or she is supported by any foreign country.

The Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the protection of Their Independence and Sovereignty adopted by the U. N. General Assembly in December 1965, clearly stipulates that "Every State has an inalienable right to choose its political, economic, social and cultural systems, without interference in any form by another state". The "Human Rights Report" of the U. S. State Department devotes a lengthy part to attacking China's political, economic, social and cultural systems in total violation of the above-mentioned declaration.

Those listed by name as being wronged in the Part about China of the U. S. State Department "Human Rights Report" are without exception criminals who had conducted criminal acts against the law in an attempt to overthrow the Chinese Government and China's political, economic and social systems or who had jeopardized social security. Is there anyone who is not clear about the political motives in this?

The basis, prerequisite and core of human rights are equality. Human rights within a country should ensure that everyone is equal while human rights within the international community should first of all states are equal. It is quite normal that the specific measures of different countries to safeguard human rights, their understanding of and views about human rights are different due to their different historical backgrounds, social systems, cultural traditions and economic development levels. The diversity of the world decides diversified views about human rights and diversified laws. With regard to the different understanding and views of different countries, it is not difficult to settle differences, including those on human rights, so long as dialogues are conducted on the basis of full equality and non-interference in each other's internal affairs. If confrontation is conducted, pressure exerted, and the human rights issue used for political motives or as a pretext for changing the economic, political and social systems of other countries, such practise of hegemonism and power politics will only bring about disasters to the cause of human rights in the world.