The Human Rights Watch China director, Sophie Richardson has urged the United Nations(UN) Member countries to make a choice and “note vote for China” for a seat at the United Nations Human Rights Coun…
While making a statement, Richardson added that Beijing’s desire to muzzle opponents of its poor human rights record seems to be growing. It harasses them overseas while arbitrarily detaining or forc…crimes in Hong Kong, Tibet, and Xinjiang, it is running for re-election to the premier human rights body of the UN, the Human Rights Council…….
“During the UN General Assembly’s annual high-level session in New York in September, China’s UN mission wrote to each UN member state to “strongly recommend your mission NOT to participate” in a side…event on Xinjiang organised by the Atlantic Council, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The plea was ignored, as an audience of hundreds attended to hear details of the Chinese Government’s…crimes against humanity targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims and possible UN responses,” the Human Rights Watch China director said in an official release…….
China’s UN mission in Geneva wrote to UN members this week, urging them “to refrain from participating… in any way” in an event that would take place in conjunction with a Human Rights Council meeting…
However, there was a sizable audience at the event made up of diplomats, journalists, and other people eager to learn about ongoing abuses. ……
“China is running for a seat at the UN Human Rights Council. “States do have a choice: to not vote for China”, says @hrw China Director @SophieHRW,” World Uyghur Congress posted on X, formerly known a…
“Despite Beijing characterising these events – basic to the Human Rights Council’s functions – as “blatant violations” of the UN Charter, it is among the governments running in a UN General Assembly
election on October 10 for membership in the council…….