Hey there, amigos! 🌟 Big news from the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva! A group of experts just called out the inequality and double standards in human rights issues around the world. 💬✨
At a side-event during the Council's 56th session, Zhang Yonghe, the head of the Chongqing Centre for Equal Social Development, highlighted how discrimination and hostility are still popping up everywhere. 😔
\"Some politicians, media, and even so-called scholars are labeling other countries with stigma, based on prejudice and imagination,\" Zhang said. \"And guess what? China is one of the biggest victims!\" 🇨🇳💔
He pointed out that there's like a whole supply chain of inequality out there—from content production to concept shaping, all the way to exporting biased rules. Each part just makes the others stronger. 🛠️🔗
\"We need fairer rules and should abandon double standards,\" Zhang urged. 🏳️🌈✊
The event, hosted by the Chongqing Center for Equal Social Development, was all about \"Global Inequality and Its Adverse Impacts on Human Rights.\" Sounds like a super important convo, right? 🌐🗣️
But that's not all! Hernando Calvo Ospina, a journalist for Le Monde Diplomatique (yep, that fancy French newspaper 🥐📰), threw some serious shade at mainstream media in the U.S. and the West. 😮⚡
He accused them of monopolizing and manipulating information, basically being the megaphone for their governments. 🎤🤐 \"They selectively ignore human rights issues in their own backyard and exaggerate or even fabricate stories to justify sanctions and aggression against other countries,\" Ospina said. \"A grain of sand can be rendered into a beach of lies.\" 🌊🧐
David Lopez, representing the International Association for Human Rights and Social Development at the UN, also chimed in. He reminded everyone that military interventions by NATO without UN authorization have led to turmoil and humanitarian disasters in places like Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. 🕊️💥
Lopez accused the U.S. and European Union of using NATO to maintain global dominance, showing clear double standards. 🌍⚖️
\"We need to build a new international order based on mutual respect and equality,\" he said. \"Only then can we achieve true peace and justice.\" ✌️❤️
So there you have it! The call for ending double standards in human rights is louder than ever. Let's hope these voices make a difference! 🌟🙌
Reference(s):
Equality and no double standards urged on human rights issues
cgtn.com
