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"American children suffer from hunger and cold," a US Department of Agriculture 2008 report showing one-fourth of them nationally were poorly fed. Many face hunger and malnutrition, live in impoverished households, lack proper medical care, experience violence and/or sexual abuse, and many become homeless every year. Most are blacks and Indians.
Many others are unprotected farm workers, forced into near bondage, living in impoverished misery along with their parents in states like Florida, California, Texas, North Carolina and Washington.
America "is the only country in the world" without a parole system for minors, and one of only two nations imposing life without parole (LWOP) sentences. The other is Israel. Many charged with minor crimes get no legal assistance. In prisons, officials turn a blind eye to their abusive treatment.
(6) Human Rights Violations Against Other Nations
"The United States with its strong military power has pursued hegemony in the world, trampling upon the sovereignty of other countries and trespassing their human rights."
As the world's largest arms dealer, it fuels global instability. Its military spending tops all other nations combined. Its Iraq and Afghan wars have greatly burdened the American people "and brought tremendous casualties and property losses to" conflict states.
"Prisoner abuse is one of (America's) biggest human rights scandals," well documented in 2009, including by the UN's Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Clear evidence was presented regarding illegal long-term secret detentions, special deportations, torture, other forms of abuse and degrading treatment, and overall lawlessness suppressed in mainstream US media reports.
China's is accurate and revealing. It could have included more, but presents a disturbing account of the real America, not the fictional one portrayed daily on TV screens, films, major publication accounts, what's taught in schools or preached in houses of worship - a sanitized version of what growing millions experience daily and what Blacks, the poor, Muslims, Latino immigrants, and Native Americans have known all their lives as well as America's global victims.
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