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China joins U.N. human rights panel and will help pick experts on free speech and health
Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:52 pm
Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:52 pm
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China was appointed on Wednesday to a United Nations Human Rights Council panel where it will play a key role in picking the world body’s human rights investigators — including global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention — in a move that has sparked protest by international human rights activists.
“Allowing China’s oppressive and inhumane regime to choose the world investigators on freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights organization based in Geneva that closely monitors the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, and a leader in speaking out at the UN for victims in China.
“It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide,” said Neuer.
China’s appointment to the UNHRC’s influential Consultative Group, comprised of only five nations, was announced in a letter submitted to the UNHRC on Wednesday by Oman on behalf of the Asian Group, and confirmed by a notice on the website of the UN human rights office.
By joining the UNHRC panel, China will be able to influence the selection of at least 17 UN human rights mandate-holders over the next year, known as special procedures, who investigate, monitor, and publicly report on either specific country situations, or on thematic issues in all parts of the world, such as freedom of speech and religion.
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Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:53 pm to Bench McElroy
Somehow this doesn't even surprise me.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:53 pm to Bench McElroy
This is fricking ridiculous.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:53 pm to Bench McElroy
the UN is such a fricking joke
Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:53 pm to Bench McElroy
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“Allowing China’s oppressive and inhumane regime to choose the world investigators on freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances is like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental human rights organization based in Geneva that closely monitors the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, and a leader in speaking out at the UN for victims in China.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:57 pm to Bench McElroy
The UN was always ineffectual, but China is just going to help it completely rot from within.
World alliances and partnerships are going to look very different in 2-3 years.
World alliances and partnerships are going to look very different in 2-3 years.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:58 pm to Bench McElroy
Yeah... the UN has let a lot of countries with terrible human rights on that Council. The list is incredible. I don’t blame us for leaving it.
This post was edited on 4/3/20 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 4/3/20 at 1:59 pm to Bench McElroy
They have already bought off the WHO
damage control is in full effect
damage control is in full effect
Posted on 4/3/20 at 2:03 pm to Bench McElroy
It's stupid shite like this that exemplifies how totally worthless, corrupt, rudderless and devoid of standards the U. N. is.
All those idiots do is beg for money and spend it (mostly on meaningless, worthless crap).
All those idiots do is beg for money and spend it (mostly on meaningless, worthless crap).
Posted on 4/3/20 at 2:08 pm to mtntiger
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worthless, corrupt, rudderless and devoid of standards
I will go one step further... Besides wasting billions of dollars, they actively make humanity worse off
This post was edited on 4/3/20 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 4/3/20 at 2:15 pm to Bench McElroy
Reason number 10,897,469,897 why America and the rest of western civilization needs to put a permanent social/trade/economic/travel distancing between us and China.
Posted on 4/3/20 at 2:29 pm to Bench McElroy
After all, they do a fine job of picking out those who practice it in China.
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