Chinese Expert Sun Meng Delivered a Speech at the United Nations Human Rights Council

[Reprint]Sun Meng, director of the China Society for Human Rights Studies and professor of the Institute for Human Rights at China University of Political Science and Law, delivered a speech on counter-terrorism and human rights at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.

During the interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights on the same day, Sun Meng said that terrorism is one of the most serious threats to basic human rights in the world today. Despite more than two decades of ongoing global counter-terrorism efforts, three systemic obstacles remain:

First, geopolitical competition and military intervention among major powers objectively create a favorable environment for the spread of terrorism.

Second, the persistence of double standards in international counter-terrorism cooperation not only weakens global solidarity, but also risks normalizing political violence through selective moral relativism. This paradox is particularly evident in the selective condemnation of terrorist incidents by certain countries, especially in the politicized response to China's counter-terrorism efforts in Xinjiang.

Third, the lack of a global consensus on fundamental values has led to extremist ideologies gaining pseudo-legitimacy on multiple dimensions.

Reprinted from China News Network (reporter: De Yongjian), China Human Rights Network