China issues report on U.S. human rights

China on Friday responded to the United states criticism and irresponsible remarks of its human rights situation China issues report on U.S. human rights by publishing its own report on the U.S. human rights issues.

The Human Rights Record of the U.S. in 2013 was released by the Information Office of China's State Council.

The Cabinet released it in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013 issued by the U.S. State Department on Thursday.

China said in the report that there were still serious human rights problems in the U.S in 2013, with the situation in many fields even deteriorating.

Posing as ``the world judge of human rights,’’ the U.S. government ``made arbitrary attacks and irresponsible remarks’’ on the human rights situation in almost 200 countries and regions again in its just-released reports, the report says.

``However, the U.S. carefully concealed and avoided mentioning its own human rights problems,’’ it adds.

The report calls the U.S. tapping program, code-named PRISM, which exercises long-term and vast surveillance both at home and abroad, ``a blatant violation of international law’’ and it ``seriously infringes on human rights.’’

The U.S. also faces rampant gun violence, according to the report.

``In 2013, 137 people died in 30 mass killings, which caused four or more deaths each, in the U.S..’’

The report also cites figures to show that frequent drone strikes by the U.S. in countries including Pakistan and Yemen have caused heavy civilian casualties.

The U.S. has carried out 376 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004, causing deaths of up to 926 civilians, according to the report.

``The U.S. still faces grave employment situation with its unemployment rate remained high,’’ the report says.

Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families have topped 21 per cent.

The homeless population in the U.S. kept swelling and it had climbed 16 per cent from 2011 to 2013, it added.

``There are also a large amount of child labourers in the agricultural sector in the U.S. and their physical and mental health was seriously harmed,’’ the report says.

To date, the U.S. remains a country which has not ratified or participated in a series of core UN conventions on human rights such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.