BEIJING: Experts at an online human rights event called for eliminating the negative impact of the politicization of human rights and promoting the healthy development of international human rights causes through cooperation and dialogue.
The online event, with the theme of Risks and Problems of Politicization of International Human Rights, is an event held on the sidelines of the United Nations Human Rights Council 51st Session. It was hosted by Jilin University on Monday.
The politicization of international human rights is not a new trend. The United States has repeatedly attached human rights issues to economic and military issues to maintain its world hegemony through economic sanctions, technological blockades and even military invasion, said Liu Hongzhen, deputy director of the Human Rights Center of Jilin University.
The politicization and instrumentalization of human rights erode the value of human rights, and the solution to resolve such issues should be equal dialogue and sincere cooperation under the UN system, she said.
“There should be universal respect for human dignity, human rights conventions and the right of each country to choose its own human rights path,” Liu said.
The Western concept of human rights contains the elements of political confrontation, and Western countries tend to observe human rights issues from a political perspective from the very beginning, and have interfered in other countries’ internal affairs with human rights issues, said Mao Junxiang, executive director of the Human Rights Center of Central South University.
The theory, system, practice and culture of human rights are always rooted in the economic, social and cultural traditions of a specific region.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
