3 Indifference to and Infringement upon Economic and Social Rights

   Fundamental human rights to existence and socio-economic rights are not properly provided with In US and Western countries.

   Indifference to socio-economic rights and infringement upon the rights find their intensive expression in the fields of right to work, right to social security and right to adequate livelihood.

   3-1 Right to Work

   3-1-1 Increase in Unemployment Rate

   Article 23.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates that everyone has a right to protection from unemployment and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights emphasizes that all countries should take measures to ensure such rights.

   However, the US and Western countries turn a blind eye to the rights to protection from unemployment, giving rise to severe acts of human rights violation i.e. increased unemployment rate.

   According to a report by the CNBC website on September 16, 2013, in 2012, the average length of unemployment for US workers reached 39.5 weeks, the highest level ever since World War II.

   Unemployment rate for the lowest-income families topped 21%, nearly matching that of all the workers during the Great Depression of 1930s.

   According to data, unemployed people reach up to 12.8 million. Among them, 5.2 million people do not get another job for more than 6 months.

   In April 2013, the number of the unemployed people in the US was in 304,000 in one week showing an increase by 2,000 people the week before.

   US has is faced with serious issue of the unemployment of the young people. According to research data reported on October 21, 2013, about 6 million people under the age of 24 lost their jobs and wander about the streets.

   The wages are cut and taxes are on increase vis-à-vis the workers under the signboard of easing economic crisis while the rank of the unemployment being on rise through massive fire of the workers.

   According to survey data by EU Statistics Bureau, the number of the unemployed people among the member states amounted up to 18.4 milion and 12,000.

   The Number of the unemployed in France and Spain was 3,347,000 and 4,812,480 respectively (as of February 2013) and in UK, unemployment rate rose up to 6.9 % during 3 months until February 2014 with the number of unemployed people amounting up to 2,240,000.

   In Germany, number of the unemployed people reached up to 2,920,000 in June 2014, which shows an increase by almost 10,000 compared to the previous month. And, in Ireland, number of the unemployed people in the first quarter of 2014 amounted up to 2,146,300.

   In Western countries, youth unemployment rate rose up to 22.9% as of February 2014.

   In Japan as well, 2.33 million people became unemployed in 2013 despite rapid growth and material prosperity of their loud-mouth.

   Increased unemployment rate in the US and other Western countries is an expression of extreme act of irresponsibility. This is also a crime of anti-popular nature. That is because those countreis are not faithful to their obligations to provide their people with rights to opportunities to maintain their lives by means of their labors of their choice and acceptance.

   It is inevitable to see only an ncrease in the army of the unemployed people in the US and Western countries that defend the interests of a few privileged class only. This cannot be solved unless such anti-popular and reactionary social system is reformed.

   3-1-2 Infringement upon Three Rights of Labor

   Three rights of labor that consist of right of organization, right of collective movement and right to collective bargaining- one component of labor rights has significant importance in realizing and defending economic requirements and interests of the working people.

   Therefore, international laws such as International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention clearly stipulate that each country should recognize three rights of labor and guarantee these rights.

   But, the US and Western countries, boasting of “prosperity” of capitalism, do not provide working people with three rights of labor that they have been demanding for hundreds of years. They rather keep a tight lid on the rights by legal means.

   Constitutions and labor acts of the US and Western countries stipulate “Three Rights of Labor” for form’s sake. But it is no more than hypocritical “kindness” and “concession” to soothe down resistance of the working people under the smokescreen of “democracy” and “human rights” and it has nothing to do with providing the working people with their rights to work.

   According to an article from the website of Russian Foreign Ministry, US is the most vulnerable country among developed countries of the world in terms of protection system for the rights of the working people to join the trade union and make a collective contract.

   One of the labor acts of the US, the Labor Management Relations Acts, adopted in 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act) is the major law to obliterate the three rights of labor of the working people, which is still valid today.

   Labor Management Relations Acts, with its focus on regulating “insufficient working practices” of the trade unions and working people, consist of “regulations” to suppress resistance of the working people against the monopolistic capital and to openly protect the interests of the enterprise owners.

   The acts openly stipulated that the government can freely interfere into the organization and activities of trade unions with the purpose of restricting and restraining the activities of trade unions to protect interests of the working people.

   All trade unions should register at Labor Management Relations Department set up according to the Labor Management Relations Acts on a mandatory basis. But its conditions, criteria, procedure and methods are very difficult and complicated. Moreover, they turn down registration of any trade union that conflict with the interests of the government or monopolistic plutocrats.

   The acts demand that trade unions should notify the enterprise owners and FBI of their strikes 60 days in advance. But that, in fact, is a “cooling down” period meant to suppress the strike of working people.

   If the strike notified according to the Labor Management Relations Acts is considered as a threat to “National Well-being”, there is a sytem for the President to stop it and enterprise owners are granted the “rights” to claim compensation for the losses during the strike by trade unions.

   This shows that suppression and sanctions are applied openly against the righteous rights of the working people to increase wages and improve working conditions just branding them as “violation” and “harmful act”.

   “Labor Management Relations Acts” and other relavant laws go length of putting a strict ban on the union strike in support of strike workers and participation of state employees in the strike.

   According to the report from International Association of Free Trade Union, 2,000,000 employees in the federal government are denied the fundamental rights to strike to defend their rights.

   Tony, former chairman of Labor Party in the New York State said to the following effect in relation to the Labor Management Relations Acts;

   “You will be surprised if you collect in a library the fascist laws on trade union passed by Mussolini after he took power and compare them with this LMRA. The level of similarity between these two astonishes those who believe there is a democracy in United States.”

   According to data released by the PEW Research Institute in April, 2013, 400,000 union members left the union in 2012, and states like Indiana and Wisconsin took legal steps to further restrict the organization and operation of the unions in government agencies.

   According to the data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 6.6 % of private-sector workers belong to trade unions.

   3-1-3 Unlimited Working Hours and Bad Payment for Labor

   As there’s a limit to a person’s physical capacity, appropriate combination of work and rest is indispensable in maintenaning good health and having pleasant atmosphere for work and life.

   Therefore, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights stipulate that each country should limit working hours rationally for all people and guarantee fair salary and payment for work of same value without discrimination of any kind.

   However, in the US and Western countries, human rights to appropriate working hours and sufficient payment for work are not fully guaranteed.

   In US, agricultural laborers are working more than the working hours set by the government. In some places, they are even forced to work for more than 12 to 16 hours a day.

   Many workers, because of this, suffer from various occupational diseases and chronic diseases to become invalid and lose their jobs in the end.

   Workers in the US and Western countries are not paid as they deserve due to the greedy enterprise owners seeking for much more profits and to the anti-popular policy of the government that connives and secretly backs up such an act.

   According to data, gap in the wage scale between officials and ordinary working people in a company of the U.S is as big as 400 times.

   The Huffington Post reported on February 1, 2013 in an article “Working Conditions of the American Agricultural Laborers are similar to those of Modern Slaves” where it said there is no change in the piece wage of the US agricultural laborers for the past 30 years.

   On December 5, 2013, workers from 100 fast food restaurants launched a large-scale strike as there was no way of making a living for them with their per hour minimum wage and pension.

   In Los Angeles and Long Beach in California, US, there was a strike of laborers working in the ports in 2012, in strong protest against the company authorities who were driving the workers to work hard on meager wages.

   In Western countries like Germany too, demonstrations of the working people demanding reduction of working hours and wage hike are going on almost every day in protest against long working hours and poor wage.

   In Germany, workers of Lufthansa Airlines went on a strike for secure jobs and wage increase on March 21, 2013 and, on April 13, 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal, 1,000 people from all walks of life staged a demonstration for wage raise.

   In his 2014 State of the Union Address, the US President stated as if there was no particular change in the average wage of the American citizens despite of the fact that the workers’right to work is severely violated due to unlimited working hours and miserably low pay.

   There is no change in the average payment of the working people due to the abence of efforts for wage increase while in splurge of huge amount of funds for military expansion and “anti-terrorism warfare”. This fact alone speaks for itself about the human rights violations of the United States.

   3-1-4 Vulnerable Working Condition

   The international human rights law rquires to provide workers with safe and higenic working conditions, but these requirements are not implemented on an adequate baisis in the US and Western countries.

   The governments and business owners in the US and Western couintries clamoring for the “pollution-free industry” and “green area” are only pusring for intrests and spend little or no fund at all to the items that provide workers with good working conditions.

   As a result, many workers are engaged in hard labor under the dangerous and harmful conditions without due safe labor facilities, thus becoming victims of industrial accidents.

   On April 18, 2013, a deadly blast at a fertilizer plant in Texas killed 14 people, left 200 injured causing leakage of toxic gas.

   The lilability for this lies in the factory authorities as well as in the US government which have yet to take any maintenance measures under the pretext of the lack of funds from 1985.

   According to a report by the Huffington Post on February 1, 2013, working conditions of US farm workers are comparable to modern slavery.

   In the US farms, a worker dies on the job and hundreds are injured everyday. In the US, nearly one out of three wage worker families are living below the poverty line and the loss of life is on the increase due to the frequent labor accidents.

   The acts of the US and the Western countries that do not provide adequate working conditions to working people are tantamount to the serious offense that violates and infringes upon human right to work.

   3-2 Rights to Social Security

   Those who have lost working ability due to the age, illness or disability and the old and children without primary caretakers are violated in their rights to material support in the US and Western countries.

   International covenants on human rights including “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, “International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, “International Treaty on Social Security” stipulate that every state should provide the rights to social security including social insurance for the persons with unemployment, diseases, disabilities, loss of spouse, retirement and the loss of means of livelihood due to the factors beyond their controls.

   But, the human rights in the US and the Western countries making a big noise about “welfare state”, “ideal state” are being grossly violated by the state’s anti-popular policy of social security and its implementation.

   The social security system introduced by US and the Western countries through a number of social security laws expropriates funds to manage the system by exploiting people through taxes, etc. Payment to the working people is so paltry even not enough to maintain the lowest standards of living and what’s worse is that payment is not available for the most of the population.

   According to the report of the US Census Bureau released on September 17, 2013, 48 million people, 15.4 % of the US population are not covered with health insurance in 2012.

   To cope with the financial crisis, the US set up emergency federal relief program for the jobless people just for the sake of it and dispensed small amount of money. Even that program stopped by December 28, 2013, which helped 1.3 million jobless people to be reduced to extreme poverty.

   A foreign news agency reported that Obama is enjoying luxurious life every day without taking any account to the fact that homeless population in the US has increased by 16% from 2011 to 2013 and 300,000 people on average have become jobless every week.

   Many people, who became jobless in the US and the Western countries, cannot get health insurance for the lack of money and cannot even think of taking medical treatment in case of illness.

   According to the data, there are 12.8 million jobless people in US, 40 million have no health insurance and 14.5 % of families suffer from food shortages.

   50 million Americans, equal to 16.3 % of the total population do not have health insurance.

   Though the US Administration has adopted a law on health service and insurance in 2010, the law requires every citizen to make compulsory purchase of service contract, thus infringing upon human right grossly.

   Although there are many American Indians suffering from the alcoholism, heart disease, tuberculosis and diabetes, almost 30 % of them are not insured due to the lack of money.

   Many people in the US and the Western countries suffer from the unrestricted exploitation, poor working conditions and industrial accidents. But, due to the indifferent attitude and evasion of the protection duty by the business owners and government authorities, many people’s lives are in a great jeopardy.

   In Madrid, Spain, persons with disability took part in a mass protest against the austerity measure taken by the authorities on December 2, 2012.

   More than 10,000 persons with disability took part in a mass protest to strongly denounce the authoritiesfor neglecting their duties to protect the persons with disability.

   It is the reality of the US and the Western countries that the old people who need care and support of the society are neglected by the society and are leading a lonely life at “home for the aged” and “care centers for the aged” that lack convenient living conditions.

   The US and the Western countries should stop making loud noises about “public welfare” anymore but have to apologize to their people and must be subjected to domestic and international legal penalty for the evasion of their duties to provide social security.

   3-3 Right to the Sufficient Living Standard

   3-3-1 Famine and Poverty

   To enjoy a sufficient material life free from famine and poverty is one of the desires the humankind has been longing for centuries and it is also one of his important social and economic rights.

   The preface of the ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ stresses that it is the obligation of the states in conformity with the UN charter to give the people freedom and right to be free from famine and poverty.

   But, in the US and the Western countries, a self-proclaimed “economic giant”, “developed society”, it’s nothing but a mere dream to emerge from famine and poverty and realize human freedom and rights.

   Joe Antmatheu, vice-President responsible for the family and economic security at United States National Centre of the Women’s Laws stated that millions of Americans are trying to keep their heads above the poverty-whirling water, just to take a breath, while a handful of the rich are idling away.

   Burg, President, the New York Association for the Eradication of Famine in deplored in an interview with the New York Times that one sixth of the population is starving while the rich of New York City are eating expensive food.

   According to the statistical data released by the the US Census Bureau on September17, 2013, the number of the poor at the national level has reached up to 46.5 million, which is 300,000 more than the previous year.

   The average income of the families has come down to 3.6 % in January, compared to that of December of the previous year, 2013, which brought the poverty-stricken people more sufferings.

   According to an article in the Global Post website on September 10, 2013, the income of the US top income familes representing 1% of the population increased by 31.4 % from 2009 to 2012, accounting for 95 % of the total US import growth, whereas the income of the low income families grew only by 0.4 %.

   The US President in his 2014 State of the Union Address said that the challenge the United States faces is an extreme income disparity.

   “Internationale”, Itallian weekly magazine stated in its article udner the title “US languishing in poverty” that the most serious problem for the US to cope with is the poverty and inadequate intake of nutrious food.

   It further stated that 4 out of every 10 Americans age 20-65 are living without any food security.

   According to the report of the European Bureau of Statistics, 124 million people in Western countries are also living in poverty.

   One out of six persons in the European Union member states is suffering from poverty and, there are about 3 million poor people in Canada nationwide.

   Number of the Israeli people living in poverty has increased by 31 % in 2011 from 27 % in 2000 due to the anti-popular policy of the authorities.

   The mass protest of the working people of all strata broke out against poverty and economic inequality in the US in 2011, and it expanded to over 1,500 cities of 80 countries. This is a due result derived from the gross violations of human rights by the the US and the Western countries.

   3-3-2 Increase in the Homeless and Inadequate Housing Conditions

   Article 25 of “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” defines that every one has the right to enjoy adequate standards of life, enough to maintain health and wealth of himself and his family including clothing, food and housing.

   Article 11 of the “International Covenant of Economical, Social and Cultural Rights” defines that every state should acknowledge everyone’s right to houses and should take an appropriate measure for its provision.

   But, human right to houses in the US and the Western countries are not fully guaranteed by government’s indifference and incredibly high price of the houses.

   In the US, the number of homeless population has reached up to 630,000 because of the extermly high price of houses and in Los Angles of California, known as a “City of the Homeless”, more than 51,000 people are greeting a new day just outdoors on a daily basis.

   According to data released by the“US Coalition for the Homeless” in November 2013, the number of the homeless New Yorkers had risen by more than 71 % as compared with 10 years ago.

   In New York, 60,000 people, including more than 22,000 children are homeless.

   National Association of the Estate Brokers of the United States published the data on January 23, 2014, which says that the expense of middle standard houses became 11.5 % more expensive than that of the previous year.

   On January 2014, In Chicago, Illinois, people could not avoid become homelessness or living in a rented room since the price of the house has become 17.8 % more expensive, compared to that of the same month of the previous year.

   The housing conditions of the lowest class people in the US are also very miserable.

   A few years ago, in Sacramento of California, “city of mobile tents” was created where hundreds of homeless population lived and the police had a hard time to drive them out to the suburb.

   Russian newspaper “Pravda” stated that “most of the US populations are living in filthy and cockroache roaming chipboard houses or tin houses. Walls of such houses can be marked with a finger and can be nailed with palm. That nail can hold only one clothand if one put two clothes the nail will be out. And one can hear everything neighbors talk. 99 % of the Americans are living in such houses.”

   In France, the homeless population has increased by 44 % in the last 11 years.

   There were 111,700 homeless people (31,000 are children) living in the street in 2012 and 454 homeless people died outside in France in 2013.

   According to the report of the Statistics Bureau of Spain, house purchasing power of the people has declined dramatically and the average housing price in Australia has increased by over 9.8 % in 2013 compared to 2012, resulting in so many homeless people in major cities.

   Not to provide basic housing conditions for the existence of the working people, it is nothing but a severe criminal act that infringes upon the human right to housing stipulated by the articles of the international law.

   4 Negligence and Violation of the Social and Cultural Rights

   In the US and the Western countries, social and cultural rights, rights required to develop creative ability and meet the need of cultural and emotional life are grossly violated.

   The act of neglecting and violating social and cultural rights is evidenced in such field as education, health and cultural life.

   4-1 Right to Education

   4-1-1 Money-centered Education

   “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and “International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights” define that every state should provide the people with the right to have elementary education and enforce middle and higher educations by all appropriate means, especially by a gradual enforcement of free education.

   But, in the US and the Western countries, the realization of human right to free education remains nothing but a dream. And human right to education is wantonly trampled on by the money centered education.

   According to the data, the university tuition fees in US and Canada have recently reached up to 8,000 US$-25,000US$, 15,000US$-25,000US$ in France, 16,000US$ in Germany and 10,000US$-15,000US$ in UK.

   In Japan, admission and tuition fees for the national university alone amounted to 1,170,000¥ a year.

   In the US and the Western countries where the education is being commercialized, the tuition fees increase on a daily basis.

   According to the data, university tuition fees for 2011- 2012 school year at 4-year national universities in US have increased by 8.3 % compared to the previous one and average admission fees for the private university is more than that of the public university.

   Because of the annually increasing tuition fee, 7 out of 10 graduates in US are reduced to debtors, thus starting their social life with a heavy burden of money fetters.

   According to the opinion poll based on the conversations with the senior middle school students by a Japanes social organization, one out of four respondents lamented over their situation that they cannot engross on their study as their parents shoulder a heavy burden to support them.

   While the poor children can neither go to school nor finish the school for lack of money, the rich buys the diploma and master’s degree at universities one after another.

   There are numerous fake universities in the US with “university”, “college” signs with even no classrooms or teaching facilities.

   Such “universities” collect money from “students”, on the pretext of running the university and are engaged in the business of honoring their students with “doctor’s degree” or even “master’s degree”.

   Common practice in the Western countries is that, if one has money, persons of low IQs who have not graduated senior middle schools and universities would have favorable employment opportunities by using openly “Master’s Degree” certificates.

   The US and the Western countries, which deprived people of due rights to education far from gradual enforcement of free education, should not trumpet about “civilization” and “prosperity”, but address their own pitiful education situation.

   In British Columbia of Canada, 40,000 teachers went on strike on March 26, 2014 against state authorities for not increasing funds for education.

   4-1-2 Serious Problem of Illiteracy

   The problem of illiteracy, a serious social problem in the US and the Western countries derives from not taking state measures to provide human rights to education in those countries.

   In the United States, because of incredibly high tuition fee, many children of school age could not study and they can neither read nor write properly and even don’t know how to do basic calculations.

   Moreover, for those studying at high schools, many are no better than the illiterates since the level of educational quality is too low.

   According to the data, most of the students at the US high schools can not locate Afghanistan or Iraq on the map and 40% of studnets graduate from high school without getting necessary basic knowledge for university entry or employment.

   In US, there are countless adult illiterates who can not even read properly a prescription, newspapers, books and the guideline for the bus.

   US secretary of Education Department admitted that 11 million adults are not able to read or write and 30 million can hardly manage to sign on a certain document or a bank check in the US.

   According to the data, more than 9 million adults in the Western countries are not able to read or write.

   The act of the US and Western countries not providing even the basic right to education is a criminal act that violates beyond doubt the paragraph 2 of Article 13 of the “International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, which requires to strengthen the basic education as much as possible for those who neither received nor finished elementary education.

   4-1-3 Discrimination and Violence in Education

   Covention against Discrimination in Education adopted in 1960 stipulates to stop all kinds of discrimination in realizing the educational right and to provide everyone with equal conditions and treatment.

   “International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights” stresses that every state should support through education United Nations activities to foster the understanding, generosity, friendship and maintain peace between the nations, ethnic, tribal and religious groups.

   Discrimination and violence in the field of education has become more severe in the Western countries, especially in the US.

   According to the US newspaper “World Journal”, persentage of students from African or Latin American descendents is 19 % and 17 % lower than the whites respectively.

   US Secretary of Education admitted in his 2010 address that mistreatment to the students with different family backgrounds is still prevalent as before.

   Only 77 % of the Indians graduate from senior middle school, due to the discrimination in education in the US.

   Physical punishment at school is allowed by law in 19 states including the southern States and 223,000 students experienced violant attacks in 2005 and 2006, according to the report of the US Education Department.

   7.5 % of all students in Mississippi, US experienced battery aimed at “education“.

   36 % of violent attacks is against the African-American students who make up 17 % at senior middle schools of the US.

   In Rotenber Education Centre, Kenton, the US, electric shock is applied to their own students, food is deprived from students and they are punched and forced to drink liquid ammonia.

   The school is in existence for 40 years, but it never stopped violence and furthermore collects 56 million US$ every year, despite the protest by the students, parents and society to close it down.

   The US, that makes discrimination as its policy and tolerates and promotes all kinds of violence in education, is the “kingdom of discrimination”and the “breeding ground” of the violence.

   4-1-4 Campus - a Den of Offense

   Any campus in the world is regarded as a holy, sound and intellectual place where civilized people are brought up.

   But, the campuses in the US and the Western countries, especially in the US remind the people of a scene of a battle field and a “paradise” for the offenders.

   On December 14, 2012, there has been gun violence in a primary school in Connecticit of the US, where 27 students were killed, most of them under the age of 10.

   Obama said that he would take a “significant measure” but the gun violence at the US campus happened one after another.

   In California, US, an unidentified offender rushed into a senior middle school on January 10th, 2013, went on a shootings spree, injuring two students. Two students got injured in gun violence at a university in Missouri on January 15 in the same year.

   On January 14, 2014, at the dawn of the New Year, there was gun violence in a high school of New Mexico, which has injured two students, turning the whole school into a chaos.

   In early June the same year, a young man rushed into a university campus in Seattle, Washington State in a shooting spree towards students.

   In order to prevent gun-related crimes at school campus, the US is promoting the work to “arm the school” through means such as training teachers on how to shoot.

   As the US newspaper “Washington Post” reported, the Education Committee of Butler, Pennsylvania stationed armed personnel to 14 of its schools including elementary schools.

   The program to place armed guards at schools is in progress in about 10 states of the US.

   The US school campus was reduced to a theater of crime full of alcoholics and drug addicts where people are swinging daggers to kill each other, where nothing sacred can be found.

   A survey by a social organization of the US revealed that 7.5 million juveniles at school age are abusing alcohol, only to cause a serious social problem.

   The sacred right of the human being to education can never be realized under the US education system where the crime is rampant, which only breeds the criminals.

   The US even has the ‘University of Robbery ’, ‘School of Pocket-Picking’ that specializes in training the criminals.

   4-2 Right to Participation in Social and Cultural Life

   4-2-1 Culture of Decadent and Perverted Cultural Life

   The US and the Western countries foster and encourage the culture of decadent and perverted cultural life so as to extremely infringe upon the human right to participate freely in the civilized social and cultural life.

   Such a culture itself is the severe violation of the norms of the international human rights law.

   80 % of the US TV entertainment program, which is run under the instigation and encouragement of the government authorities, has the bloody assassination and violent scenes and such scenes are aired 8-12 times hourly at the prime time.

   Americans, regardless of the men and women, the old or the young who are exposed to such “cultural information”, consider violence as kind of fun or game.

   The social trait of the corrupt and perverted life of the US is intensely expressed in the increasing number of drug addicts and alcoholics.

   In the US, the drug is 100 billion US$ selling business annualy and drug addicts go up to 30 million.

   According to the data released by the“US National Drug Abuse Research Centre”, there are 20 million cocaine users and 5.8 million of them used them even one month before.

   The number of the young people aged between 18 and 25, who are using drugs on a weekly basis, has reached to 250,000.

   According to the data released on June 12, 2014 by a social organization of Italy, more than 600,000 youngsters have taken cocaine and cannabis in 2013.

   In the Western countries, too, the markets of the international group of drug runners have expanded, thus adding the number of its users and addicts.

   According to the US Department of Health, the alcoholics in the US are 18 million and 80,000-100,000 die annualy due to alcoholism.

   The alcohol consumption in US is equivalent to one hundred billion US dollars. The death rate of alcoholism is 10 % higher than that of the work accident, 40 % higher than that of suicides and 40 % higher than that of traffic accidents.

   The only way the drug and alcohol addicts go for is a corrupt and perverted life, and its terminal point is a crime and a miserable death.

   The gambling houses reticulated around US and the Western countries are “the sty of vice” that has nothing to do with the cultural life of the working people.

   The gambling houses in Las Vegas of the US open all year round have become a den of the crime and a waste land of the ethics and morality to cultivate plunder, murder, suicide and sex-related crimes.

   The cultural trait of the corrupt and perverted life that prevails in the US and the Western countries turn people to the slaves of the money and goods. This only fosters the human and life relations which are based on the bestial spirit.

   A society where people turn into a slave of money who does not know flesh and blood but money and goods and where husband kills wife, wife kills husband and even his or her own child; this is none other than the societies of the US and the West.

   The crime by the US and Western countries can never be overlooked under any circumstances, which turn the people’s cultural society into a jungle of beasts by fostering and encouraging corrupt and perverted lifestyle.

   4-2-2 Perverted and Deformed Cultural Life of the Privileged Circle

   Perverted and deformed cultural life has nothing to do with the sound cultural life, and it is a challenge to it.

   “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” clarifies in its Article 27 that everyone has the right to participate freelyin the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

   Such human rights clarified in “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” are extremely abused and encroached upon in the US and Western countries by the abnormal and deformed cultural life of the privileged group.

   A classic example is the fact that hundreds of millions of penniless working people are falling into the poverty line, being homeless, whereas the “dog culture” and “animal culture” are gaining in popularity, which gives lavish hospitality to animals such as dogs.

   In the US, pet market businesses are in thrive, which specialize in “accessories”, “foodstuff”, “clothing” and the like for the pets. And the “dog shops”, “dog restaurants”, “dog hospitals” are set up everywhere and the professional pet-sitters like “dog physician” and “dog chef” are on the increase.

   When the dogs and cats of the privileged group in America are glutted with “all kinds delicacies” to death, the dead pets would wear dazzling, drop-dead gorgeous “shrouds” even to the envies of the kings and queens and would be “laid in state” in the “cemetery” festooned with precious flowers, being put into marble coffins carpeted with the hides of leopard.

   One billionaire in America was even reported to have left his pet-dog US$ 2m in his will and his younger brother US$ 5m on condition that he would look after it.

   America is no place for a human being but a dog, in which dog is a master and human being its servant.

   One journalist in America deplored that “Monopoly capitalists are coming up with ever-crazier ideas, for they are fed up with such criminal amusements as satiation, lewdness and 15,000 US$ worth of diamond dog-necklace, banquet for their ‘beloved’ dogs, the outgoing of the monkey with human being accompanied as servants, and a feast amounting to tens of hundreds of dollars.”

   Widespread in the US is the abnormal trend of rearing fearsome snakes as pet for pleasure. The spine-chilling term of “snake industry” is now in fashion, which provides over 2.5m snakes of various kinds including viper and serpent with affluent lives in palace-like houses of the billionaires in America.

   The decadent mania of the privileged group in America for turning human being into a servant of animal with pleasure brings disgrace and challenge on the life of human being and constitutes a very serious crime that harms the sound mind and thinking power as well as the way of life of human being.

   4-3 Right to Health

   4-3-1 Health judged by Money

   Good helath is a condition for intellectual and physical activities of the human being, thus, the right of human being to good health, a foundation of the social development can be properly exercised only when state-level care and safeguards are provided, given that the individual’s efforts are inadequate.

   Therefore, international human rights laws and norms regulate that the human being has the right to protection of his physical and intellectual health and that every state should take due safeguards to ensure it.

   The right of human being to good health in America and the Western countries, however, are being seriously infringed upon due to the pursuit of profit and irresponsibility of the governments and public health institutions.

   The production, sale and use of foodstuff of bad quality to make money are raising a great public concern in the US. Almost all foodstuffs including alcohol contain preservatives and even carcinogenic substances such as OPP and phenylephrine are used under the guise of “preventing” the mould in orange.

   Such toxic substances in foodstuffs result in health damage, lifespan contraction, outbreak of various diseases and birth of deformed babies among the consumers, while causing public unrest and panic.

   In the US, noble medical practices to be contributed to the life and health of the human being has degraded into money-grabbing profiteering, thereby skyrocketing the costs of treatment and medicines, posing a grave threat to the health of many people.

   In 2014, an alarming incident took place in Phenix Hospital in Arizona, US, where over 40 innocent ex-servicemen died without taking a dose of medicine while waiting for a long time with expectations to have their illness cured.

   The hospital also conducted a shameless act of making a false report in 2013 and was awarded the title of excellence by the Department of Veterans Affairs. For this, doctors and staff in the hospital received a pay-rise and bonus, despite the fact that 226 inpatients had not received treatment for over three months exceeding its waiting period of treatment (within 30 days).

   In the wake of the incident, Obama tried to placate the public opinion, saying “the incident to be ashamed of”and “harsh punishment will be given to those concerned through thoroughgoing investigation.”

   In US, quack doctors with no skills or qualifications are running their own “hospitals” in a broad daylight and spurious medicines are manufactured and sold in bulk, damaging the health of the people.

   The same is true of the Western countries. In the midst of the decreased expenditure for the public health and the soaring medical bills, the widespread production and sale of bad-quality foodstuffs and spurious medicines add to the grave damage on the life and health of the human being.

   4-3-2 Proliferator of Various Epidemics

   The criminal act of the US and the Western countries of violating the rights of the human being to the health finds its expression in the spread of the Ebola virus by the US.

   Shortly after its April, 1972 signature to the Agreement on Banning the Development, Production and Stockpile of Germ and Toxic Weapons, the US imposed a terrifying catastrophe of Ebola virus over the humankind, with Africa as a test-ground.

   Roberts, former aide to President Reagan disclosed in his writing titled “Ebola History Stinks” that it was the White House who had invented the Ebola virus.

   According to his writing, the US produced a parent germ of this virus in its bio-weapon research institutions in the West African countries for the purpose of bio-warfare.

   Scientists in other countries claim that Ebola virus infection broke out not long after the set-up of research institutions under the DOD of the US in Sierra Leon in 1976.

   Sirrel Broderick, a university professor in Liberia pointed out that some weeks before the current spread of Ebola virus in Guinea and Sierra Leon, the US DOD had squandered 0.14 billion US$ in the virus-related experiments on living bodies. He kept exposing that it is none other than the US which is responsible for the launch of bio-terrorism on Kenema, Sierra Leon and is now turning African countries, which are backward in science and industry, into its bio-weapon test grounds.

   It is a tell-tale evidence that Ebola virus was not natural-born in the West Africa but produced and spread in the research process of the US bio-weapons.

   The Ebola virus produced and spread by the US claimed more than 5,500 lives, leaving 15,350 people infected as of November, 2014.

   At present, bio-weapon-producing corporations in America amount to over 400, which do great harm to both the survival and health of the human being.

   The world already knows that the AIDS, “Black Death” in the 20th century was also caused and spread by the US, having plunged the survival and development of the human being into a catastrophic situation.

   The US is a malignant virus to be sterilized and cleaned up on the globe. US can’t go scot-free as it is a culprit for spread of Ebola virus hell-bent to annilate the whole mankind and a ringleader of the manslaughter.

   5 Encroachment upon Rights of a Certain Group

   It is a must that each state show special attention to and ensure the rights of various social groups, but these are severely violated in the US and the Western countries.

   Encroachment upon the rights of a specfic group is evident as regards children, women, natives, ethnic minorities, immigrant workers and foreigners.

   5-1 Rights of the Child

   5-1-1 Child Poverty

   Children require sufficient nutrition and living conditions due to their physical characteristics.

   The Convention on the Rights of the Child regulates that each state, keeping in mind that children require special care and attention, including the appropriate legal protection, before and after birth due to physical and mental immaturity, should fulfill its commitment to ensure the rights of the children.

   But, in the US and Western countries, the penury and poverty are plaguing lots of children who are excluded from the attention and protection by the state and society.

   According to the survey done by the US Census Bureau on September 17, 2013, the number of children in poverty nationwide amounted to over 16.1 m by the end of 2012.

   In the US, 17 m children, which account for 22% of the total child population, faces food scarcity.

   The League against Hunger in New York reported that over 20% of the New York children are suffering from constant hunger.

   US newspaper “USA Today” pointed out on September 23, 2012 that the states, which had the increased rate of the children in poverty from 2010-2011, totaled 14 including Nevada with the increased rate of by 38% in the past decade.

   In the US, the mortality rate among the children of African origin is 2-3 times greater than that of the white children.

   19,000 homeless children lived in refuges in New York City alone in September, 2012.

   “New York Daily News”, the US newspaper quoted 14-year old Ruciano as saying that his life in the refuge was as good as “a living hell.”

   In the Western countries, the problem of child poverty is giving rise to a profound public concern.

   The US and Western countries push a great number of children, future builders of the country and nation, into the chasm of hunger and poverty. Such a crime clearly shows who the hell in the world abuses the human rights.

   5-1-2 Child Abuse

   The US and Western countries are in the flagrant violation of their obligations to protect the children from all forms of abuse, which are typically specified in the Convention on the Rights of the Children.

   In the US, toddlers who rarely recognize their mothers are now abandoned by the society and their parents, being subjected to maltreatment.

   “Chicago Tribune” of November 16, 2013 stated that 111 children lost their lives due to maltreatment and lack of care in their families. Most of them are only 1-year-olds.

   The number of children, who have been suffering from the violence in the US, is recorded well over 3 million. This was confirmed through a survey done by a group in the US for the promotion of the rights of the children. In fact, the actual figure outnumbers it.

   The US Department of Health and Human Services reported that 695,000 children were maltreated in the US in 2010 alone. Among them, about 1,600 lost their lives, and over 79% of them were caused by their parents.

   Juvenile maltreatment in the US is not confined to one or two states but is rampant all across the country. Washington D.C., New York and Massachusetts rank top among the states according to the records of maltreatment - cases per 1,000 children - 23.4, 17.4 and 17 respectively.

   Juvenile maltreatment is expressed in several forms, of which 26.8% is related to sexual violence.

   One of the causes of juvenile maltreatment in the US is the vulnerability in its judicial system.

   The US tolerates a system that allows the adoption of children through brokers who are not able to protect the minimum rights of adopted children. In addition, they even ensure the brazen activities of the agencies, which help foster parents abandon the children without legal procedures. If someone stands on trial under the judicial system of the US for the maltreatment of his adopted child, he will just end up being released on bail or getting light punishment.

   More surprisingly, the law of the US permits the abandoning of children.

   The US is even holding a lot of the juveniles in custody abroad and maltreating them with harsh violence and interrogation, whose number totals more than 2,500.

   In Japan, it is natural to see the women committing the crimes of maltreatment or murdering their own children, which can be hardly imagined in other countries.

   The world does not see any difference in the Western countries, boasting of their “civilization” and “prosperity”. It is not unusual to see parents not feel a slightest guilty about their crimes such as turning on the baker after dumping their children into it or spinning them in a washing machine or abandoning their babies in rubbish bin or murdering them.

   These convicts are making an unscrupulous excuse that they had no choice but to do so as they were too poor to bring up their children.

   The act of maltreatment and abuse of the children is the inevitable product of the social systems in the US and Western countries, where the Law of Jungle applied to the animal world is spilling over into the family ethics.

   5-1-3 Forced Child Labor and Abduction or Kidnapping of Children

   “The Convention on the Rights of the Children” regulates that every state should protect children from labor, inter alia, to prohibit outright abduction and kidnapping of the children for the purpose of forced labor and prostitution.

   With their rights being in grave violation, forced child labor is ubiquitous in the US and Western countries.

   The US has not yet acceded to the Convention on the Rights of the Children, whose members include almost every country in the world and still aids and abets forced child labor.

   In 2012, the number of the employees under the age of 16 in the US plantations totaled 41,310, with approximately 0.4-0.5 million child laborers in the agrarian lands.

   In the US, most children are forced to do such harmful or hazardous jobs that pose direct challenge to their health and safety. These include the running of the farm machines or spreading the pesticide, which result in 38 children being injured every day from the accidents.

   NPR ran a special program in March, 2013 where it had reported that a disastrous accident of a 14-year-old child being buried to death in the grain barn in Illinois, adding that 20% of the casualties, who are choked to death in grain barns, are all child laborers.

   Around 1.8 million children are kidnapped in the US every year.

   “Los Angeles Times”of July 29, 2013 reported that the FBI had launched a 3-day special action in 76 cities nationwide and released 105 minor children abducted by vice racketeers. Most of them were girls, involving the youngest one merely at the age of 13.

   A great number of the children are kidnapped or abducted by human-trafficking criminal groups in the Western countries being froced to do all sorts of toils and meet their ends during their childhood.

   The US and Western societies are the hopeless societies, facing doomsday, because it treats children just as their subjects of pleasure and luxury.

   5-2 Rights of Women

   5-2-1 Discrimination against Women

   Elimination of discrimination against women is one of the principal issues in the implementation and protection of the rights of the women.

   The humankind has long struggled for the implementation and protection of the rights of the women, which led to the stipulation on the issue of the prohibition of all forms of discrimination against women in international human rights legal instruments.

   But, in the US and Western countries, which have deep-seated contempt and hate for women, the “respect for women”is nothing but a mere slogan and women are subjected to all forms of contempt and discrimination.

   The US and Western countries assert that women are entitled to vote but, contrary to their assertion, a lot of women are excluded from the election due to several limitations, and women of working origin are not given the rights to freely participate in the state affairs.

   For the single reason of gender, women can’t afford freely to choose their own career. The women in the US and the west can’t avoid being fired first.

   The data says that the employment rate of women among the university graduates in Western countries is lower by 14.4% than that of men.

   The women employment rate accounts for not less than 46.9% in Italy. It is 7% higher as compared with men in Greece.

   In Japan, the most notorious country for its doctrine of the contempt for women, a third of working women nationwide are forced to work overtime without being paid and 52.5% of working women live from hand to mouth on temporary jobs.

   Women in the US and Western countries are paid much less than men for the same category of work.

   The average income of working women in the US accounts for mere 81% of men’s. Women of both African and Latin origins are paid less than men for the same category of work: 69% and 58% respectively.

   The wage gap between the working men and women in Germany increased by 23% and women are paid 16% less on average than men in Italy.

   In Japan, women make up 70% of the workforce, who barely eke out their livelihood with low incomes.

   There are countless cases of women in irregular jobs who often skip over meals due to a meager amount of wage albeit hard work and who can hardly maintain their livelihood on part time jobs.

   Due to the discriminatory conditions, about 1.5 million women worldwide are in poverty line and the women under such a line account for 22.2% in the US.

   Discrimination against women in Australia is so rampant that it is causing public controversy. According to the opinion poll, 51.1% of the respondents expressed that women are under discrimination in employment opportunities while 93.2% saying a barrier exists in the workplace that hampers the equality between men and women.

   The US and Western countries can never get away with their crimes that institutionalize discrimination against women and wantonly violate the rights of women to the gender equality.

   5-2-2 Maltreatment and Abuse against Women

   Violations of human rights of women in the US and Western countries can be found in the form of maltreatment and abuse against women.

   Over 6 million women are falling prey to violent crimes every year in the US. Among them, 0.5 million cases are annualy arecorded as sexual assaults against women.

   It is the sexual abuse that covers a great proportion of the maltreatment and violence against women in the US. 1.3 million women were exposed to sexual abuse each year. About 20% of women were raped more than once and sexual abuse has been inflicted on one in every 5 university students.

   According to the survey done in April 2014, over 67,000 women are suffering in the US from the crimes of sexual abuse each and every day.

   In May 2013, an appalling fact was exposed to the public. The world was taken aback at the fact that a 52-year-old criminal in Ohio had inflicted sexual abuse on three women tied in chains and ropes for a decade, locking them up in the underground solitary cells of his house.

   Sexual abuse is also growing in the US army, where one out of 5 women service personnel is vulnerable to sexual abuse.

   According to the Reuters website in the UK on July 21, 2012, Lewis Worker, the US Air Force drillmaster inflicted sexual abuse on 10 women trainees. The European Council made public that 12-15% of women in Europe are falling victims to sexual assault.

   The survey by the EU human rights association on March 5, 2014 revealed that one out of three women in the Western countries are falling prey to physical and sexual abuse. Over 2 million women are falling victims to domestic abuse every year in the US and 3 women are losing their lives every day.

   Worsening domestic sexual abuse in the society led to the enactment of the Prevention Law on Domestic Abuse in the US, but it still remains ineffective.

   Over 1 million women are falling victims to domestic abuse crimes in Australia.One woman in France on a three day baisis and two women in women in UN on a weekly basis are losing their lives due to the domestic abuse.

   The maltreatment and abuse against the women in the US and Western countries constitute the crime that severely violates the dignity and personality of women, and that poses an open challenge to the efforts of the international community to protect and promote the rights of the women.

   5-3 Rights of the Indigenous and Ethnic Minorities

   Protection of the rights of the indigenous and ethnic minorities is mostly caused by the colonial occupation and re-division of it by the imperialists. It is from this it should be said that the US and Western countries should assume their due historical and moral responsibilities to ensure their rights. It is also an obligation under the international law.

   The international human rights instruments have so far stipulated different rules and regulations concerning the protection of the indigenous and ethnic minorities, whereby the states were bound to provide favorable conditions for the indigenous and ethnic minorities to have equal rights and opportunities with other nations and to maintain and develop their socio-cultural independence and national traditions.

   On the contrary, discrimination and exclusion in the US and Western countries against the indigenous and ethnic minorities are ever growing day by day.

   In particular, the US is the most notorious criminal country that severely discriminates and mercilessly excludes the indigenous and ethnic minorities, despite the fact that it brutally killed the indigenous people and has achieved its “prosperity” and “development” by brining in numerous African people and minority nations. Ethnic minority people in the US are subject to all kinds of restrictions and discrimination in the election.

   According to the “Boston Overview” from January to February, 2013, more than 2 million African-Americans are deprived of their rights to vote in the US.

   “Guardian”, the UK newspaper reported on May 30, 2012 that the US Attorney General himself had admitted that the citizens of ethnic minority origin are under the restrictions in exercising their rights to vote or even losing it under the legal provision demanding for the ID certification.

   This is as remote as a northern pole to seek jobs by the ethnic minority people in the US. Those, who found the jobs by chance and worked their fingers to the Bones, also can’t escape from the discriminary treatment.

   According to the statistics by the US Department of Labor, the unemployment rates of the Americans of African and Latin American origins were 4.3% and 10% respectively compared to 7% of the white in October, 2012.

   According to the “Gallup” opinion poll against the black people on July 18, 2013, 75% of the respondents complained that they are getting unfair treatment in their labor life. The data reads that the natives (5.2m), 1.7% of the American citizens and especially those (about 0.7m) living in the immigration centers are living in the worst conditions. Nearly one third of them are officially below the poverty line and the unemployment rate in the immigration centers accounts for 50% and 80% in some areas.

   The total annual income of an American Indian family in the US is less than half of the average American family’s. Alen (96.4% of its residents are the Indians), South Dakota is the poorest region in the US, where 96% of its residents are below the poverty line.

   Approximately 46% of the American Indians in the US are homeless and one out of five is living in the the house without tap, electricity and drainage system. On February 13, 2013, special rapporteur on the rights of the ethnic minorities in the UNHRC disclosed that the cases of abuse infliction on the women natives in the US are too numerous to mention.

   On September 10, he made an appeal to the US government to ensure sufficient protection of the rights of the children of the American Indians, saying that the act for the welfare act for the children of the American Indians is hampered in its implementation.

   On September 10, 2013, the international organization for the rights and interests of the descendants of ethnic minorities revealed that the American Capital Energy Corporation branch in Belize is exploring for oil in the Belize Mayan Culture and Tradition area without any consent of the local natives.

   Discrimination against the ethnic minorities is exasperating the conflict and clash between the tribes and nations, only to worsen them off as disputes.

   Ethnic minorities in the Western countries are under discriminatory treatment whether they are alive or dead. In the early 2015, a 2-year-old Romanian gypsy child after his death was about to be buried in the cemetery of Shamblang city on the outskirts of Paris. But, it was not approved by the mayor. Soon it caused the public anger against the discriminatory measure even against the dead.

   The US and the Western countries, which have deep-seated and inveterate imperialist way of thinking of despising other nations and peoples, and ignoring and dominating them, discriminate against and exclude their native Americans and minority people. This constitutes one of the gross violations of the UN Charter providing that all nations must live in harmony on the principles of equality and mutual benefits.

   5-4 Rights of Disabled Persons

   It is the obligation of every state under international human rights instruments to protect the rights of persons handicapped physically or mentally and ensure their wellbeing and restoration.

   The “Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons” and the “Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities” provide that disabled persons have the inherent right to respect for their human dignity and the political and cultural rights on an equal basis with others, and are entitled to enjoy their rights without discrimination.

   However, in the US and Western countries which often call for “public welfare”, the promotion of the rights of disabled persons is no more than flowery words leaving many disabled persons to be abused in their rights.

   Many people in the US and Western countries become disabled in labor accidents due to greedy pursuit of profits by the monopoly capitalists and unfavorable working conditions.

   According to research data conducted by the European Parliament, more than 300,000 people become disabled due to labor accidents annually.

   In Japan, maltreatment is prevalent towards people with disabilities far from defending their rights.

   Survey data released by Japan’s Welfare and Labor Ministry on 11th November 2013 shows that there have been at least 1,505 registered cases of maltreatment towards disabled persons at familes and the recuperation centers in Japan during the period of 6 months until March this year.

   In Spain, 10,000 disabled persons held a protest demonstration against their government’s austerity measures which have aggravated their situation.

   After the occupation of Iraq years ago, the US military, while searching civilian houses, killed a man who has relied on his wheelchair for 25 years, accusing him as a “terrorist”.

   It is common sense that a man who is paraplegic cannot commit any acts of terror.

   The US military not only framed a disabled man but committed cruel killing as their pastime. The US, with its butchery and heinous crimes against disabled community, can be only described as a “grave for the disabled”.

   5-5 Human Rights during Wartime and Armed Conflicts

   5-5-1 Killing of Innocent Civilians and Destruction of their Living Conditions

   The US and Western countries are blatantly violating the human rights by slaughtering innocent civilians and turning their homes into the pile of ashes on the protection of human rights, during wartime and armed clashes (as stated in the above), disregarding international laws including the Geneva Convention.

   The “articles and practices of ground war” stipulate that the occupying power should respect the existing law of the occupied area, should promote and reinstate public regulations and environment as much as possible and should prohibit plunder by all means.

   But, the US and the multinational forces not only infringed upon the lives but also destroyed living conditions of the population in the occupied area in the name of “counter- terrorism”.

   The US army even attacked, destroyed and plundered at random houses, hospitals, red-cross warehouses and high voltage cables connecting the city, which are all recognized internationally as targets not to be attacked during the wartime.

   Due to indiscriminate bombing and destruction of the US Army, economic establishments and infrastructures were turned into ruins in Iraq.

   According to the UN report, the production of industrial sector like the mining, manufacturing and power industries, which form backbone of the country’s economy decreased 54.1 % in one year after start of war.

   The economic stagnation due to US’s indiscriminate bombings and destruction has pushed Iraqis to serious unemployment, extreme poverty and starvation.

   Although their official unemployment rate is reported as 28%, the experts have reevaluated it to be 50% and among them 50 % are youth. 23% of Iraqis are living below poverty line and more than 30 % of children are suffering malnutrition.

   US attack and destruction of the infrastructure left the Iraqis with severe shortage of water, electricity and fuel. 85 % of residents live without electricity and 45% with shortage of drinking water.

   Hundreds of thousands of young people cannot attend school as their schools were destroyed.

   The US army turned the country into a living hell by encouraging illegal activities like swindles, fraud and robberies.

   In the 1990s, the “NATO” army led by the US committed criminal acts in Yugoslavia by indiscriminate bombing which led to the collapse of the economy, and forced over a million out of their houses, homeland, and their country and to foreign soil as hopeless vagrants.

   Although US and Western countries are bustling about to cover up their crimes under the cloaks of “anti-terrorism” and “protection of the minority”, they cannot escape the blame for destruction and plunder of the livelihood of the people in other countries and, for this, they should receive due punishment by the international community.

   5-5-2 Use of Banned Weapons of Mass Destruction

   International laws and regulations prohibit the use of biological and chemical weapons in any case, with no exception of wartimes and armed conflicts.

   In 1950s, during the Korean War, the US used both chemical and germ weapons immensely slaughtering innocent Korean civilians. In 1990s, depleted uranium was used during the Gulf War and Balkan War.

   For example, within two months from January 28, 1951 to March 31, 1952, the US poured down more than 700 times germ bombs and all kinds of substances containing lethal microorganisms to more than 400 areas in the northern half of the Republic. During the period from February 1951 to July 1953, the US army used lots of chemical weapons in the cities and counties in the northern half of the Republic such as Kangwon, Hwanghae and South Phyongan Provinces and war fronts.

   Tonnage of the depleted uranium used by the US in Gulf War and Balkan War amounts to 300t, equivalent of 41 thousand bombs respectively.

   In a new century, the US is resorting to weapons of mass destruction more often.

   US infringed the human rights by slaughtering many civilians by using chemical weapons that completely melt human bone.

   An Italian television channel broadcasted the reports of chemical weapons used against civilians by the US military in Faluza city in Iraq.

   British newspaper “The Mirror” exposed that it was evident that the US military used chemical weapons against civilians in Faluja city through the fact that all 168 patients hospitalized in Halah City Hospital sustained severe injuries from shrapnel and burns and there was no patient with bullet injuries.

   In Annasuria city in Iraq, many civilians were killed by white phosphids used by the US military.

   A group of the Russian Institution conducted a survey on the damages in Iraq caused by the US military using mass destruction weapons. This shows that the radioactive contamination level in Iraq was hundred thousand times higher than the international standard.

   The Uranium Medical Research Centre owned by Dr. Dulakovich, a former US army surgeon, analyzed over 100 samples gathered from 15 areas in Iraq like Baghdad, Basra and Karbala. The result shows the radioactive contamination levels in those areas as thousand times higher than that of air and water of Toronto, Canada, which serves as the international comparison.

   As a signatory to the Convention on the Ban of Chemical Weapons in 1997, the US holds fully responsible under international law for the massive use of chemical weapons.

   The crime of utilizing weapons of mass destruction including the chemical weapons is a criminal offence and can be only committed by the US who is the mastermind of mass killing, culprit of human rights abuses and cancer to the world peace and stability.

   5-5-3 Ill-treatment of POW

   The violation of the human rights by the US and Western countries during wartime and armed conflicts, particularly the criminal acts of the US have also been exposed in the form of ill-treatment of POWs.

   The US flagrantly violated the international norms and regulations on POWs by killing Taliban POWs in Afghanistan indiscriminately.

   After the seizure of Kunduz located in northeastern part of Afghanistan, the US military killed more than half of 8,000 Talibans while transporting them to a prison, using 25 container trucks.

   The truth is as follows; around 200 to 300 Taliban prisoners were stowed into each airtight container which made them stifled in a sizzling hot weather.

   When some of the prisoners asked for a ventilation hole in the container, the US soldiers fired into the container under an order from their commander.

   All containers were riddled with bullet holes through which blood poured out and the area was emanated with smell of blood.

   On arrival at the prison, the containers were opened: 150~160 prisoners were found dead and other survivors either wounded or unconscious.

   The US commander ordered those wounded or unconscious to be taken out to the desert and killed, not leaving one soul. Many remains and clothing of the prisoners were later found in the area.

   The fate of the Taliban prisoners taken to prison camps was not much different from those who were killed.

   After taking out for interrogation, the US soldiers did not hesitate to cut out the tongues and fingers, shaving off beard and hair of the prisoners as pastime.

   Witnesses testified that the US soldiers killed the prisoners by breaking off their necks and many prisoners never returned from the interrogation room. (POW atrocities stated above)

   The barbaric act towards prisoners committed by the US is a blatant violation of the Geneva Convention-3, showing vividly that the US is a barbarian group.

   5-6 Rights of Refugees, Immigrant Workers and Foreigners

   5-6-1 Main Culprit for the Origination of Refugees

   Now, to ensure the rights of the refugee is becoming a serious international and human rights issue as the number of refugees is on the inrease all over the world.

   International human rights instruments including the “Convention on the Status of Refugee” stipulate that all countries should take practical measures and intensify international collaboration to ensure the rights of the refugees.

   Despite the increasing effort to ensure the rights of the refugees, the number of refugees keeps on increasing along with infringement of their rights.

   This is the result of interfering and dominant policies of US and the West.

   Interfering in social and political matters of other countries only aggravated confrontational conflicts, fostering and enlargement of disputes between nations and races. This is one of the repeated methods used by the US and the Western countries.

   Recent increase of refugees due to internal conflicts in Africa including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Sudan, Kenya and Nigeria is the result of constant interference and dominant policies pursued by the US and the West.

   In particular, the number of refugees amounted to 2.7million in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1.8million in South Sudan and 700 thousand in Mali.

   Refugees from Africa and Middle East crossing over the Mediterranean in 2014 have increased by three times compared to 2011.

   The US invasion of Iraq under the pretext of “War on Terrorism” in March 2003 turned the country into a land of chaos with terror and collision, confusion and disorder within residents. This generated millions of refugees.

   In 2012, the US dispatched special forces into central Africa to “eliminate terrorists” making the situation more complicated with the expansion of armed conflicts and generation of refugees in tens of thousands.

   Drone attacks on several countries including Pakistan took many lives and turned civilians into refugees.

   In 2013, the US instigated Israel who, alleging a major hindrance to peace agreement, attempted to change the status of Palestinians who left their homeland in 1948. This created further complication in the settlement of the Palestinian refugee problem.

   The whole world was shocked to see a video clip uploaded on internet which displayed violence of a guard in a German refugee camp inflicting injuries to a refugee. The guard punched and forced the refugee to lie flat on the ground by pressing his boots on his neck and cuffing his hand.

   The refugee problem caused by the US and Western countries is per se the violation of human rights and thus they should be responsible according to international law for removing the cause of refugee and ensuring their rights.

   5-6-2 Violation of the Rights of Migrant Workers

   In today’s world where the economy develops on a global scale and economic exchange and ties are growing between countries, the right to immigration is recognized as an important human right and it is commonplace that many people immigrate to other countries for work.

   Therefore, all countries are obliged to ensure the rights to immigration by international agreements on human rights including the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers which entered into force on July 1, 2003.

   But the US and the Western countries are treating foreigners entering their countries to earn a living as illegal immigrants and immigrants are forced into inhumane treatment which is no more different from that of the criminals who are in prison.

   There are about 40 million immigrants in the US. Among them, 400,000 are coming to US every year to earn a living , but they are all detained in immigration camps as illegal immigrants.

   Once they are considered as illegal immigrants, IDs and personal belongings are confiscated, and they are given psychological pressure and separated from their families. They are kept in small cells in unhygienic environment with little water, food and medical attention. All kinds of physical violence are committed against them.

   According to the data from 2003 to 2009, about 100 lost their lives in the immigration camps in the US and there have been more than 200 recorded cases of rape and sexual assault among detainees in the camps.

   There is no legal support at all for those immigrants in the camp facing a threat of deportation. One out of 510 detainees is likely to be provided with a lawyer.

   It is common to find illegal immigrants who are forced to work 16 to 24 hours a day with low pay.

   Recently, the number of immigrants, who were deported back to their countries against their wills, increased to 400,000 in the US. The US even deported immigrants who have been residing with families in the US for a long time, which led to separation between spouses, parents and children.

   According to the report issued by an immigration research center in August 2012, immigrants who have worked hard for more than 20 years in the States had much less assets index compared to the Americans born in the US.

   The immigrants, who come to US to earn a living, become targets for sexual assaults regardless of time and place.

   A survey was conducted by the “Human Rights Watch” in 2001 among 160 people with different professions such as farmers, farm owners, human rights advocates, lawyers and other experts. The survey reveals that most respondents considered sexual assaults towards the immigrant workers in the agricultural sector as the most serious issue. All foreign female workers who participated in the survey disclosed that they have been victims of sexual assault or witnessed a crime.

   Discrimination and abuse towards immigrants are becoming a serious international issue in Western countries.

   The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a report that more than 65 thousand migrant children in Germany are being deprived of sufficient care and support from the government for health care, education and other sectors.

   There have been many ostracized movement against immigrants in Germany. In October 2014, three buildings for immigrants were burnt down. The arsonists left behind “No more housing for immigrants” on the walls of the housings.

   The US and the Western countries have always self-proclaimed that they are the center of cultural exchange but all the evidence shows that the US and Western countries are center of human rights violations.

   5-6-3 Xenophobia

   Promotion of the rights of foreigners is an international practice, which has been established through a long span of history and recognized by several international legal instruments, and constitutes a basis for the normal development of relations between states.

   But, the US and Western countries keep themselves away from such international treaties and practices, and human rights violations towards foreigners are committed openly, regarding them as heretic, discrimination, etc.

   In the US, the number of radical groups which instigate discrimination and rejection of foreigners are on increase and the crimes committed based on hatred of foreigners are getting higher record.

   According to the data of a NGO “Southern Poverty Law Centre”, there now exist over 1,000 radical groups in the US including such neo-Nazi groups as “National League”, “National Socialist Movement”, “National Socialist Pioneers” and other xenophobic ones. The number of people belonging to these groups shows increase.

   Xenophobia in its naked form is fully supported by 15 to 20% of the US population. More than 80% of the British population regard that foreingers are responsible for all the occurred criminal activities in the country.

   Frequent violence is committed against the foreingers in Sweden. In Germany, 4 drunkards made a target against the Turkish family greeting a New Year’s Day in a restaurant, and made a scene by shouting out “dirty Turks” and uplifted the symbols of the racial organizations while destroying the restraunt and breaking its windows. Sunday became a day in Dredzen, Germany to hold demonstrations against the foreign immigrants by the right-wing extreme organizations.

   “Xenophobia is not a simply racial issue but social one”. Such a voice is coming out from all over the world that condems the human rights violations aginst the foreigners by the US and the West. This notewithstanding, the US and the Western countries still remain indifferent to establish any institutional mechanism to ensure the rights of the foreigners while committing itself to a policy of xenophobia and contempt to foreigners.

   6 Racial Discrimination

   Racial discrimination shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life. (Article 1.1 of “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination”)

   It is stipulated as one of the important duties of each state to abolish racial discrimination in the several international human rights instruments such as the “Universal Decaration of Human Rights” and the “International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights”. Racial discrimination became a policy in the Western countries, notably, in the US. Foreigners are allineated and suppressed just for this simple reason that they are from different races. Such human rights violations still remain unabated in those countries.

   6-1 Racial Expulsion

   Racial expulsion and human hatred is the history of the US, its inherent policy and idea.

   The US, formed on the dead bodies of the Indians, made it as its policy to discriminate other nations and races. It enacted all kinds of evil laws to realize it and got it institutionalized.

   An outrageous system of racism was in force in the US until the beginning of 1960s. During which time, black people had to stand up and give their own seats to the white people when they took on the bus. After that, racism was abolished in 261 cities by the people’s struggle against it, but it was only for form’s sake.

   Racial expulsion still persists until today in the US. The black people are divested of their rights to vote by the limitative voting regulations such as the residential place and time.

   Some states in the US are running a system of “wisdom test” at the time of registering the black voters whereby each state would give them strange and unreasonable questions such as “How many foams can be made from one cake of soap?” or “How many windows are in the White House?”.

   Those, who fail to answer these questions, can’t cast a vote. There is also a regulation to deprive the rights to vote against those who had once a prison life.

   Owing to this, 13 % of black males and one person out of 7 black people are losing their rights to vote.

   Much heavier penalty system is in operation against the black people in the US.

   Let’s take the case of the same crimes commited by the black and white people.

   Black people would be sentenced to a 5-year prison life if he or she is found to be possessive of 5 g of the drug while the white people only so if he or she is found to be possessive of 500 g of the drug.

   According to statistics by the US Labor Department, unemployment rate is 2 times higher among the black people compared with the whites, and the number of the black people in hunger is 3 times higher than that of the whites.

   The US Census Bureau released its survey result concerning the poverty rates of different racial group in November 2013 with following results; only 11.1% (white people), 25.4% (black people) and 28.2% and 16.7% (Latinos and Asians respectively).

   1 out of 5 Latinos is less fed and 1 out of 20 is in a suffering of constant hunger and disease. 84,000 black people are not on steady medical treatment, losing their lives in grievance.

   What is worthy of special notice is the fact that black women have 4 times higher maternal mortality rate than white women. Half of those who were recently recorded as positive infectious AIDS virus are black women.

   The black people and Latinos were found to have been charged house rental fees two or three times higher than the ones of the white people in California, US. According to the nationwide survey done by the Pew Research Center, 43 black respondents were dissatisfied with the widening gap between the black and white in the economic life.

   More than half of the students of black and Latin orgins dropped out the high schools in California and other states in the US, due to the aftereffects of racial discrimination, and only 2.3 % of black students were enrolled in high schools.

   The websidte of the “Hupington Post” carried this article on October 23, 2013. According to it, saleswoman declared to the police about Christine, black student, on suspicion of cheating when she bought 350 US $ worth of a leather belt at the Barney Department. Even after he showed a receipt and his ID card to the police to prove his innocence, the police dragged him to police station for interrogation after putting him in shackles. His attorney said that “His only crime is just that he is none other than a black youth.”

   The US “Los Angels Times” conveyed an article on December 2, 2013, which said that there exists a racial discrimination by the Los Angels Fire Department at a time when it employs firefighters and during a normal working process.

   The major mass media, social organizations and politicians in the US are putting in circulation the idea of racial expulsion and human hatred. The US ABC News spread the idea of “Kill all Chinese!” and preached the human hatred through program run by Jimmy Kimel on October 16, 2013.

   Bobi Barengtok, a black child studying at a school in Harlem Street of the US wrote in a “Freedom” titled composition that “Freedom is a time when the white people stop insulting the blacks, when the latter live in a beautiful house like the whites and when the black girls are not refused by the white girls when the former requested the latter to play”.

   This small dream of a child can’t come true indefinetly unless the US social system itself is corrected, which has a deep-rooted idea of racial expulsion and contempt.

   The US crime of racial expulsion constitutes an extremely grave one as it it fails to implement its obligations under the international human rights instruments to abolish the racial descriminaiton, and connives and fosters it.

   6-2 Racial Suppression

   Racial suppression is an extreme form of raical discrimination. It is a criminal act which entails a dangerous result of exterminating a race as a whole.

   Racial suppression under the category of the crime of massacre has become one of the awful crimes, a pronoun for hatred and condemnation against the US and an indicator for the worst human rights situation in the US.

   The racial suppression is openly staged by the violent groups as well as by the police and the judicial authorities in the US, which have missions to prevent all kinds of racial decrimination.

   The staggering number of 1,800 terrorist groups is in the forefront of racial suppression under the control of the US administration, which includes “3Ks”, “John Berchy Association” and other terrorist bodies and ganssters.

   6 million black workers are arrested, tortued and murdered by these terrorist groups in the US. According to the data, at least 136 African Americans with empty hands and naked fists were killed by the police and security people in 2012. In the same year, 24 year old black youth was killed by the police who had arrived on the spot when the youth asked for help after a car accident and 25 year old girl was ganged up on by two white policemen for the reason that she did not pay back the fine in the US.

   John Berge, once a police lieutenant and his-led night patrol policemen in Chicargo had captured “strange people”, most of them were black men. After that, they applied the paper bag-choking torture, Old Sparky or electric shock and other barbarous methods of torture against them, thus to have caused a grave threat to their life. They had also incriminated them by force.

   2014 was the year of racial suppression in the US.

   White policeman shot to death a black youth at the age of 18 in Ferguson City, Missouri State, US in August, 2014. Back-to-back incident of the black youth being shot to death by white policeman broke out in St Louis, Missouri State, US.

   Judicial authorties in Missouri State, US didn’t take any measure of putting a legal punishment against that policeman who had mercillesly killed 18-year old black youth in a defensless position. Judicial authorities in New York City issued a disposition not to institute a public action against the white policeman who had strangled to death a black man who barely maintained his livelihood as a cigarette peddler in the street.

   With these incidents as a momentum, protest and demonstration were reached to a high pitch against racism in the US. These, later, has a rippling effect over to many cities including New York, Washington, Detroit and Los Angels.

   Obama held an emergency meeting in the White House to cope with this where he said there is a need to reform the way the police behaves. But, that was, if any, only to install miniature cameras in the uniforms of the policemen by spending several hundreds of million US dollars.

   What Obama had put as a measure is nothing but a mean fabrication to ocver up their hideous colours as culprits for human rights violations and to mislead the world public opinion.

   Racial suppression in the US is committed by the racial discrimination policy by the US administration, and this is not something that can be easily solved with such a stop-gap measure as the installation of such miniature cameras.

   The US, a barren land and tundra of human rights, should no longer depict itself as a “model state of defending human rights” and not any more take an issue with the human rights situation of other countries.

   The US would be severely punished without fail before the history and the mankind, and at the international courts for what they had committed the crimes of all kinds against human rights.

   Conclusion

   Mentioned in the above report is only the part and parcel of the human rights violations committed by the US and the Western countries.

   As we delve into it, it goes worse. As we often see and hear it, it will lead us to grind our teeth with indignation. This is what we found as an actual human rights situation of the US and the Western countries.

   The human rights violations by the US and the Western countries is an inevitable product caused by the inhuman and reactionary viewpoints and stands on human rights from those countries, and their unpopular social systems and dominating ambitions.

   But, when we look around the world, we find not a few countries and people who still have illusions about the US and the Western countries, listen with repeated expressions of assent to what they say a catchphrase that they “defend human rights”, and follow them.

   It is a must that all countries and people aspiring for independence squarely see who are the worst human rights violators and the kingpins of such violations in the world. With this recognition, they should condemn the crimes of the most cruel human rights violations by the US and the Western countries and conduct the concerted actions with determination to punish the US and the Western countries by bringing them into the dock of the international court.

   The Korean Institute for the Research of Human Rights would continue to make public, one after another, the results of its much more comprehensive and detailed research and analysis about the human rights situation of the US and the West as well as about the human rights violations by those countries.

Received from the DPRK Embassy