For a very long time, the US has been quite patronizing, with the belief that it has the best system and human rights record, and as a result, it tends to find fault with other countries.
US also supports friendly governments that make human rights abuses like Saudi Arabia and several Arabic countries while it publicizes human rights rhetoric about its enemies.
The US State Department usually criticized countries such as Iran, Russia and Venezuela for what it calls violations of human rights, while its own rights record leaves much to be desired.
Violation of Americans Human Rights
Based on extensive media reports both inside and outside the US, and interviews of many human rights experts from China, the US, France, Canada, Russia and Switzerland revealed the US trampling on American people's human rights in all walks of life.
In 2015, more than 560,000 people across the United States were homeless, 25 percent of whom were under age; the country's primary women's prison Lowell Correctional Institution, where 2,696 convicts are held, is rampant with corruption, torture of prisoners, and sexual abuse; women are subject to sexual harassment and sexual assaults of different forms, and career women subject to discrimination at work, the documentary showed, citing media reports.
Of teenagers aged 15 and above who succumb to injuries in the States, one quarter die in shooting incidents; the Federal Bureau of Investigation forces Internet companies to provide clients' information without a court approval, according to the documentary.
According to new data released by the US Education Department released, wide racial disparities remain in US public schools, including in discipline, suspension, and course access and teacher quality.
From academic programs to teacher experience to advanced science and math courses, American schools that enroll large numbers of minority students lag far behind.
Violation of Minorities Human Rights
An African American journalist in Detroit says wide racial disparities remain in US public schools is another example of the human rights violation that continues to afflict minorities.
Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire believes that nothing is really fundamentally being done to guarantee a quality education for all students.
Human Rights Violation in Health Care
A report released by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective paints a distressing picture of the health conditions facing black and Latina women in the United States.
It makes a compelling case that the US is in direct violation of International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ICERD based on the health care access and health outcomes associated with certain populations in the US.
One of the more frightening findings in the report, which focuses on black women in Georgia and Mississippi and Latinas in South Texas, is one that has received increased attention in recent years--the continued crisis of maternal mortality in the United States, particularly for black women. I've written about this topic before for Colorlines, but the situation continues to worsen with each new examination of our statistics.
Saudi Arabias Rights Abuses
In the past year, executions in Saudi Arabia surged to the highest level in decades, and rights groups have widely condemned Riyadhs military intervention in Yemen for violating international law. The government has also continued to prosecute and arrest activists, often through broad anti-terrorism laws designed to stifle dissent.
Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Amnesty International James Lynch believes that the Saudi government has led an intense assault on human rights in the country from the last years of Abdullahs rule in 2013 and 2014, through to the current era of King Salman.
Basically, all independent human rights defenders or prominent independent human rights activists are either in prison, have fled the country or are awaiting trial, he added.
Womens Rights in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's restrictions on women are internationally infamous for instance Women can't get driving licenses, attend to elections or reach the higher level of management in this Arabic country.
Because of these factors, international bodies consistently rank Saudi Arabia low on matters of gender equality. In 2014, the World Economics Forum ranked it 130 out of 142 countries in its annual report on gender equality.
In the end, all over the world the US supports governments that are hardly democratic and it does so while talking about democracy and doing something else in reality.
Anyone who knows anything about the actual practices of the US internationally wouldnt believe a word that comes out of the international endowment for democracy because it is simply propaganda.
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