Zhao Lijian said that gender discrimination is a long -term human rights disease of the United States

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"The Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs" reported that at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 30, a reporter from Shenzhen Satellite TV asked: Recently, the debate of the United States' abortion around the United States has aroused widespread concern in the international community. The report believes that the incident marks the historic retrogression of the human rights of American women. The United Nations Human Rights College Bachelet and Britain, France and Canada have condemned it. What is China's comment?

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Zhao Lijian: Women's rights are an important part of basic human rights. Gender discrimination against women is a long -term human rights disease that the United States cannot cover up. The United States has not yet approved the United Nations core human rights convention of "Elimination of All Forms of Women". American women have been suffering from systematic, extensive, and institutional discrimination for a long time. In recent years, polls show that 75%of Americans still believe that the state needs to make more efforts in achieving gender equality.

In the field of economic employment, the United States Civil Rights League pointed out that the wages of women in the United States are only 78%of men, of which black women and Latin women are only 64%and 54%of white men. During the new crown pneumonia, many US companies lay off a large -scale layoffs, and the unemployment rate of female employees increased. From February to May alone, 11.5 million American women lost their jobs. The United States is also the only country in the federal level that does not guarantee any country to provide employees with any country with paid maternity leave, accompanying maternity leave or parenting leave. It is estimated that only 60%of American employees can truly enjoy the maximum 12 weeks of unpaid maternity leave stipulated in the federal.

In the field of personal safety, the United States is currently the country with the highest maternal mortality rate in all developed countries. Among them, the possibility of black women dying from fertility is 243%higher than white women. According to the statistics of the American Institute of Family Violence, 85%of American domestic violence victims are women, 5.3 million women are abused each year, and more than a thousand women die due to domestic violence. In addition, American women encounter gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and even sexual assault in workplace, and the protection of women's rights and interests in this regard is not sound. It was not until 1991 that Congress revised the Civil Rights Act that the plaintiff could seek money compensation on the grounds of sexual harassment.

The right to domestic women in the United States once again shows that the United States has no right to claim to be "human rights guards" at all. The United States should first take practical and effective measures before drawing other countries to fully respect and protect the basic human rights and legitimate rights and interests that protect their domestic women.

Foreign Ministry spokesman's office

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