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中国农历新年前夕，四川省广安市某村15户贫困户集体住进新房。图为搬迁户自办宴席进行庆祝。图片来源：人民日报
联合国人权理事会第三十四次会议2月27日在瑞士日内瓦开幕。每逢联合国人权外交季，国际上总会有一些别有用心的组织和个人，无视中国人权进步成绩，戴着有色眼镜看待中国，抹黑中国人权现状。
中国人权状况到底怎么样？这要用事实说话。当今的中国已经走出一条适合国情的中国特色人权发展道路，取得巨大成就。中国解决了13亿多人民的温饱问题，减少了7亿多贫困人口，占全球减贫人口总数的70%以上，率先实现贫困人口减半的千年发展目标，为人类减贫事业作出了巨大贡献。中国为7.7亿人提供就业，实现9年义务教育全覆盖，关爱2.3亿老年人和8500万残疾人，保障6000多万城乡低保人口的基本生活，人均预期寿命从1949年的35岁提高到现在的76岁多，被联合国誉为“过去30年间发展最快的国家”。
荷兰人权研究所所长、荷兰乌特勒支大学法学教授汤姆·茨瓦特对一些贬低中国人权成就的不实言论感到非常的愤慨，他将中国在减贫方面取得的巨大成功，称之为人类历史上最伟大的人权发展成就。他说：“我衷心祝贺中国共产党和中国政府在减贫方面取得的巨大成功。”
中国始终秉持平等互信、包容互鉴、合作共赢的精神，全面深入参与国际人权合作，推动建立公正、合理的国际人权体系。2016年中国以180票的高票第四次当选联合国人权理事会成员，成为为数不多的四次当选的国家，充分体现了国际社会对中国人权事业发展的肯定。中国加入包括《经济、社会和文化权利国际公约》等6项核心人权公约在内的26项国际人权公约，认真履行国际人权义务，多次接受国别人权审查和人权公约履约审议。中国同近40个国家举行人权对话与交流，同联合国人权机构开展建设性合作，为国际人权治理注入了动力。
正如联合国人权理事会发展权工作组主席扎米尔·阿克拉姆所说：“没有任何一个社会或经济体像中国这样实现了这么快的发展，在这么短的时间内就实现了7亿多人口脱贫，中国还为其他发展中国家提供了大量发展援助，这都是非常伟大的成就。”
China’s poverty eradication among the greatest human rights achievements: expert
By Zhang Mengxu from People’s Daily
China’s poverty eradication is among the greatest human rights achievements, experts pointed out, dismissing voices smearing China’s human rights record at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.
Discriminatory words concerning China’s human rights record are heard in almost every human rights session of the UN. It is believed some organizations and individuals with ulterior motives always turn a blind eye to China’s human rights progress, but make a judgment via blinkers.
However, over the past years, China has made great achievements in human rights undertakings. For instance, food and clothing are no longer a problem for the 1.3 billion Chinese people. Over the past three decades, over 700 million people have been lifted out of poverty, accounting for more than 70 percent of the global poverty reduction. China is the first country to have realized the Millennium Development Goal of halving its poor population.
At present, 770 million Chinese are employed and nine-year compulsory education has achieved universal coverage. Rights of 230 million senior residents and 85 million handicapped people are well protected, and the basic life of over 60 million low-income residents in urban and rural areas is supported by the government.
Prior to the founding of PRC in 1949, China’s per capita life expectancy was only 35, and for now the number has been raised to 76. China is hailed by the UN as having the best record of improving life expectancy during the past three decades.
Tom Zwart, director of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, ranked China’s record of poverty relief among the greatest human rights achievements of all time. He didn’t hesitate to show his anger towards false speeches belittling China’s progress.
“I sincerely congratulate on the remarkable success of the CPC and Chinese government in eradicating poverty,” added Zwart, also a human rights professor with Utrecht University.
China has been actively engaged in international human rights cooperation based on the spirit of equality, mutual trust, inclusiveness, and mutual benefit, so as to push forward with a just and objective international human rights system.
In 2016, China was elected to the UN Human Rights Council by 180 votes, becoming one of a few countries which have sat in the Council for four times.
China has joined 26 international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and five other core human rights covenants. It also shoulders its international human rights responsibilities by accepting multiple human rights reviews.
In addition, China has held human rights dialogues and exchanges with almost 40 countries, launched technical cooperation on human rights with UN agencies, injecting great energy into global human rights governance.
Zamir Akram, chair-rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development at the United Nations Human Rights Council, commented that China is the only social and economic entity that has ever achieved such a rapid development.
“Over 700 million Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty in such a short period,” he hailed, adding that the country also has offered big amount of aid to other developing countries.
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Villagers from Guang’an, Sichuan province hold a housewarming banquet after they were relocated to new houses before the Spring Festival this year. (Photo by People’s Daily)