华尔街时报：人权，联合国和中国

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[标题]：人权，联合国和中国


正文：

联合国人权理事会即将召开听证会审查中国的人权纪录，就像其他联合国会谈一样，这次会议不大可能导致直接的行动，但是，如果仅仅向中国人民显示世界其他国家关注发生在他们身上所发生的事情，那么对北京的行为的任何公共关注都是值得讨论的，随着天安门大屠杀20周年纪念的临近，这样的提醒尤其及时。
     今天在日内瓦召开的会议归功于联合国成员国人权记录年度综论，47个理事会会员和观察员将用3小时讨论中国的人权纪律，随后，三个代表国——尼日利亚，印度和加拿大——下半周提出建议，中国可以很自由的忽略这些结果。
   人权理事会——沙特阿拉伯。古巴和其他权利滥用者的避难所——很少，甚至从没有做到名字表示出的责任，但这不表示今天的会议没有价值，中国在人权上外交压力很敏感。去年，联合国审查作为反酷刑大会的签名者之一中国的许诺期间，北京代表团被迫提供这些信息——否则，这些信息将用不见天日。
   今天的会议将重点讨论理事会几个较自由的国家——捷克，拉脱维亚，列支敦士登和瑞士——提交的问题，如对人权卫士的迫害，国内审查制度和酷刑。议会可能同时提出去年的西藏镇压，奥运期间北京对异议的严格控制，计划生育政策，“劳改”，宗教信仰自由，拘押异见人士。（Jerry Cohen 和 Eva Pils 是指最近消失的人权律师Gao zhisheng.）
   中国会像过去一样引用冗长的法律和其签署的人权会议，否认一切指责。在其为今天的会议提交材料中，北京断言其根据“中国国情”履行了其法律。
      讽刺的是，这样的申明可能对其作者不起作用。，随着互联网和手机时代的来临，中国官方压制违反人权新闻越来越难。随着中国的发展，中国公民要求更好的待遇。关注这种趋势的人越多越好。




原文：


Human Rights, the U.N. and China A worthwhile discussion by a flawed council as the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre approaches.
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a hearing today on China's human-rights record. Like other U.N. confabs, it's unlikely to result in concrete action. But any public attention to Beijing's actions is a discussion worth having, if only to show the Chinese people that the rest of the world cares what happens to them. With the approach of the 20th anniversary of the June 4 Tiananmen Square massacre, such as reminder is especially timely.
AP Chinese President Hu Jintao.



Today's meeting in Geneva comes courtesy of an annual review of U.N. member states' human-rights records. Members of the 47-member council and observer nations will discuss China's record for three hours, then representatives of three states -- Nigeria, India and Canada -- will present recommendations later in the week. China is free to ignore the outcome.
The Human Rights Council -- home to Saudi Arabia, Cuba and other rights abusers -- has rarely, if ever, lived up to its name. But that doesn't mean that today's meeting is without merit. China can be sensitive to diplomatic pressure on human rights. During the U.N. review last year of China's commitments as a signatory to the Convention Against Torture, the delegation from Beijing was forced to provide information that otherwise might never have seen the light of day.
For today's meeting, the advance questions submitted to the Council by its freer nations -- the Czech Republic, Latvia, Liechtenstein and Sweden -- touch on some important issues, such as persecution of human-rights defenders, domestic censorship and allegations of torture. The Council may also raise last year's crackdown in Tibet, Beijing's iron grip on dissent during the Olympics, the one-child policy, "re-education through labor," religious freedom and the detention of dissidents. Jerry Cohen and Eva Pils relate the story of recently "disappeared" human-rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng here.
China will deny every alleged offense, as it has done in the past, by citing a long litany of laws and human-rights conventions to which it has acceded. In its submission to the Council before today's meeting, Beijing asserted that it implements its laws "in the light of China's national realities."

The irony of that statement is probably lost on its authors. It's becoming harder and harder for Chinese authorities to suppress news of human-rights violations in the age of the Internet and cell phones. As China develops, its citizens are demanding better treatment. The more public attention is focused on that trend, the better.

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走中国的路，让西方抓狂去吧

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还敢提西藏镇压？

对那些ZD我看是压的太轻了

当鱼爱上猫

随着天安门大屠杀20周年纪念的临近   怎么只记得这点，怎么忘了法西斯和小日本，要不要进到一次算计一下历史上哪个国家杀的人最多呢？太反感这些垃圾媒体的，反感到极点了。

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今年是包括美国在内的八国联军侵华109年！抗议八国联军对中国人民进行大屠杀和镇压！请问美国屠杀我们人民，西媒有没有说？？？？！

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自说自话的，西方人，