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China Has Joined U.N. Human Rights Panel

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So China will now be able to police the policies that they are against in their own country, for other countries, which includes "freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention"

I wonder how much money has China has allocated for bribes.

GENEVA, April 2, 2020
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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.
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China will help vet candidates for the critical UN human rights posts — serving as Chair of the interview processes for at least five of the mandates — and help decide whom to recommend for appointment. In most cases, the council president appoints the experts selected by the 5-nation panel.
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unwatch.org

China joins U.N. human rights panel, will help pick experts on free speech, health, arbitrary detention - UN Watch

Mr. Jiang Duan, who holds the rank of Minister at China's mission to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, will play a key role in selecting the world body's monitors on health, freedom of speech, arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances. GENEVA, April 2, 2020 -- China was appointed on Wedn
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Squarehard

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entremet

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Republicans already hate the UN. This will be more fodder for them lol.
 
deimosmasque

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The UNHRC has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis.

It makes sense that China is on it being the largest nation in the Asian/Pacific Region.

Other Human Rights violating nations like Ethiopia, Saudia Arabia, Russia, Indonesia have all held positions on the council before. As has China itself before.

This isn't anything new.
 
Pandora012

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Were the Uyghurs set free or something?

Then again. There are other countries that fail in human rights, yet are still on it.
 
jelly

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It's not like the other countries have a leg to stand on before this. China is abhorrent but the UN is a joke anyway.
 
FriskyCanuck

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Literally every single country gets a turn, this isn't noteworthy in the slightest. There should be more outrage at how permanent seats on the Security Council are still a thing.
 
Zok310

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Lots of countries on the hrp that are shit at human rights. China aint the 1st.
 
Rune Walsh

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Officially worse than DOOP. I know they rotate but some countries should be excluded.
 
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Yeah, it's official. TheOnion has to close, there's just nothing left for them to do.

The only other headline that might top the absurdity of this one is "Stephen Miller appointed head of the NAACP"
 
jeelybeans

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Ugh, more of a farce than it already is.

I feel like the UN is going to fall apart like the League of Nations
 

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If Saudi "lets behead people in the public square for sorcery" Arabia can be on the Human Rights council, then I guess China can be too.

what a fuckin joke.
 
Heshinsi

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Davilmar said:
One of the rare times I will even remotely understand their sentiment.
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But that's not why they hate the UN. They hate the UN for completely different reasons than autocratic nations being on panels like this. So you will still not "even remotely" understand their sentiment.

Also, weren't the Saudis on this panel too? The UN in areas like this will always be shit, because the most powerful countries in the world are almost all shit, and they will use bribes and threats to get what they want.
 
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