The U.S. Department of State says the U.S. will host a U.S.-sponsored human rights video conference during the General Assembly session on Wednesday. The U.S. State Department says Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will call on all U.N. member states in a U.S.-sponsored human rights video conference during the General Assembly session on Wednesday to reassure and commit to the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
On December 10, 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that fundamental human rights should be universally protected.
In recent days, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has advocated human rights on various occasions. On Sunday, he spoke at a Baptist church in Plano, Texas, where he discussed religious issues. He focused on the mistreatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Last Wednesday, Pompeo and British Foreign Secretary Raab, in a joint press conference, unanimously condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and I also spoke of our shared concerns about Xinjiang and Hong Kong, where the people, and their human rights, are being seriously violated. We urge China to fulfill its international obligations. The Chinese government must end the serious human rights violations against the Uighur minority in Xinjiang.”
U.S. media reported that the Trump administration is considering characterizing the Beijing government’s oppression of the Muslim minority as “genocide. “The source said that the U.S. government will soon have a final determination. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House of Representatives will hear two bills this week on the issue of forced labor in Xinjiang.
There is bipartisan concern in the United States about the oppression of the Uighur people. Melanie Vowell, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues who served in the Obama administration, told VOA that what is happening to the Muslim minority in Xinjiang is a tragedy.
Reports point to massive abuse, forced sterilization, and very inhumane treatment of them,” Vowell said. This looks like an effort to actually destroy a people and their culture. So it’s a human rights issue of great concern.”
In an article last Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited the story of Father Zhang Guangjun, mentioned in the State Department’s 2019 Religious Freedom Report, as an example of how communist authorities continue to shut down churches, spy on and harass believers, and insist that the Party is the ultimate authority on religious matters. The chief U.S. diplomat said the Vatican hopes to improve the situation for Catholics in China by reaching an agreement with the Chinese regime on the appointment of bishops, but Catholics in China continue to be persecuted.
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