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US criticizes China ahead of UN women’s equality session


UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and human rights organizations sharply criticized China’s repression and imprisonment of women’s rights activists ahead of a high-level U.N. meeting Sunday to promote women’s equality. The session will be co-chaired by China’s President Xi Jinping.China hosted the last major U.N. women’s conference in Beijing in 1995, and Xi has been proclaiming the importance of women’s human rights. But Amnesty International’s Roseann Rife said on Saturday Beijing’s stance was “hypocritical” when the government continues to jail women activists.Liesl Gerntholtz of Human Rights Watch said China’s participation should include “the brave Chinese women fighting for …read more

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