Reference News Network, July 27 report. According to the website "Real Brazil" on July 25, on July 25, the Second China-Latin America Human Rights Roundtable held in São Paulo released the "São Paulo Consensus on China-Latin America Human Rights Cooperation and Exchange," a document that established the goals and actions for reflecting on global human rights governance.

The document was signed by representatives from 20 countries in China and Latin America and the Caribbean. During the meeting, participants repeatedly mentioned that human rights issues should no longer be used as a political agenda to justify attacks and sanctions.

The document did not name specific countries, but also addressed the issues of Western interference and the instrumentalization of human rights. The document stated: "We oppose politicizing human rights issues and opposing the abuse of human rights issues to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries."

According to the report, the signatory countries have strengthened the awareness that "the development of human rights endeavors in each country should be based on its own historical culture and development stage, choosing a human rights development path and human rights protection model suitable for its national conditions."

In this sense, the São Paulo Consensus emphasized that "we should promote and coordinate civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights together," while pointing out that it is necessary to create a "peaceful and stable environment" for the development of human rights.

The report said that if the criticism put forward in official documents is expressed in diplomatic language, then the speeches of experts and officials at the meeting were more sharp in condemning foreign interference and demanding historical compensation as a new pillar of the human rights agenda. Ali Nishawar Salim Gill, Chairman of the Grenada National Compensation Commission, said: "Colonial countries became wealthy through exploitation, while we became poor. We demand compensation for indigenous and African peoples."

Wang Yanwen, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Society for Human Rights Studies, stated that currently, the international human rights cause is facing both new opportunities and serious challenges. Only through unity and cooperation among countries can world peace and stability be maintained, and global development and prosperity promoted.

Shaira Natasha Downs Morgan, a member of the Nicaraguan National Assembly, believes that the necessary cooperation model needs to "contrast with the unilateral and hegemonic models of countries that historically included colonization, slavery, and military conquests. The times are moving in a positive direction."

The São Paulo Consensus also pointed out that the current world should practice "genuine multilateralism," jointly safeguard global fairness and justice, "advocate that all countries adhere to the common values of humanity such as peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom, and promote the formation of a more fair, just, reasonable, and inclusive global human rights governance."

Aside from reaching this consensus document, the conference also announced the launch of the "China-Latin America Human Rights Research Cooperation Network," to promote cooperative research between China and Latin American and Caribbean countries in the field of human rights. (Translated by Han Chao)

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