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China's Silent Rural RevolutionWhen China's National People's Congress (NPC) concluded its annual meeting recently, it voted to enshrine protection of human rights and private property in the constitution.
Expatriate involvement will also likely support the rights of women to participate fully and legally in economic and political life, as was the case before 1978.
It will continue to live up to her traditional values and responsibilities, based on democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights, openness, tolerance, humanitarian solidarity, a sense of duty and reliability.
Austria is strongly committed to the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights, and the rule of law that are common to all EU member states.
My Government is deeply committed to the protection of human rights and to combating racism and discrimination.
We have a highly developed national human rights legislation and practice, as well as a strong and independent judiciary.
Austria is party to practically all major international human rights treaties and has traditionally played an active part in their drafting.
In Italy, the Berlusconi government’s treatment of Roma settlements – destroying homes and fingerprinting Roma based solely on their ethnicity – blatantly violated human rights.
This is not only a human rights issue, but also an economic one.
David Scheffer, the U.S. Ambassador for War Crimes, proclaims NATO's unprecedented enforcement of human rights to be a "watershed" for international law.
The NATO operation shows how the efficacy of international human rights law depends on its selective application.
In large part out of concern for human rights, the Charter prohibits one nation's use of force against another unless the Security Council authorizes the attack or unless the attack is a self-defensive response to armed aggression across recognized borders.
In addition, as the UN's chief human rights officer recently noted, NATO's possible war crimes fall within the jurisdiction of the same war crimes tribunal that might indict Mr. Milosevic.
NATO's opportunistic invocation of international human rights law is but one example of the broader double standard that characterizes this law.
No nation on earth more aggressively enforces international human rights law against other countries.
And no nation on earth more aggressively resists the application of international human rights law to itself.
When it does ratify human rights treaties, it renders them inapplicable to U.S. officials.
And though the United States invokes international human rights institutions when doing so suits its purposes, it renounces these institutions when they attempt to assert jurisdiction over the United States.
This human rights law double standard can be defended, to a point.
The U.S. provides extraordinary (though imperfect) human rights protections within its borders in virtue of its domestic legal system.
So its failure to apply international human rights law in its domestic sphere makes little practical difference to the rights available there.
The United States resists application of human rights law to its activities abroad because it has unique human rights enforcement obligations, and thus potential exposure to the strictures of human rights law.
That said, the United States' opportunistic use of human rights law rhetoric -- on full display in the Balkans conflict -- still seems hypocritical.
The double standard that underlies this hypocrisy, however, is an inevitable feature of international human rights law.
Not so with international human rights law.
If one nation -- say, Yugoslavia -- is otherwise inclined to abuse its citizens, it will perceive no reciprocal benefit from compliance with an international norm that requires greater respect for human rights.
A nation like Yugoslavia is unlikely to comply with international human rights law unless other nations -- say, NATO -- sanction non-compliance.
This is why most violations of international human rights law go unredressed.
It is also why the rare enforcement of human rights law that we do see tends to conform to the enforcing nation's political interests.
But it does not sanction Turkey or China for their human rights abuses, because such sanctions are strategically too costly.
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