{"id":45678,"date":"2022-06-22T17:28:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T08:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/hong-kong-plunges-lower-in-global-human-rights-index"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:28:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T08:28:22","slug":"hong-kong-plunges-lower-in-global-human-rights-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45678","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong plunges lower in global human rights index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Region now on par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators \u2013 and coming closer to converging with China<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has plunged further in a human rights ranking report, bringing it on a par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators, and closer to converging with China as the Communist party government deepens its control on the region.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings report by the Human Rights Measurement Index (HRMI) also highlighted a deepening divide in China between high scores in quality of life indicators and some of the world\u2019s lowest for civil and political rights. But the organisation found rights to basic essentials were often stripped from people for political reasons.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/hong-kong-plunges-lower-in-global-human-rights-index\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region now on par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators \u2013 and coming closer to converging with ChinaHong Kong has plunged further in a human rights ranking report, bringing it on a par with Saudi Arabia in some indicators, and closer to converging with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,53,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-human-rights","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45691,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45678\/revisions\/45691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}