{"id":10465,"date":"2021-01-19T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/20\/fiji-warned-on-failings-at-home-after-winning-un-human-rights-council-role"},"modified":"2021-01-19T20:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:00:04","slug":"fiji-warned-on-failings-at-home-after-winning-un-human-rights-council-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/fiji-warned-on-failings-at-home-after-winning-un-human-rights-council-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji warned on failings at home after winning UN human rights council role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji won a fierce contest to head the global rights group, but coalition of NGOs says repression and abuses domestically must be addressed <\/p><p>Fiji has won an intense and secretive geo-political battle to become the first Pacific island nation to win presidency of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/hrbodies\/hrc\/pages\/home.aspx\">United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a>, but its ascension has come with demands from critics for it to address systemic rights abuses at home.<\/p><p>Overcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/24\/shoved-aside-fiji-set-to-lose-top-job-on-un-rights-body-in-global-power-struggle\">last-minute challenges from Bahrain<\/a> and Uzbekistan, both backed by China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, Fiji decisively won 29 out of 47 votes to take control of the powerful and influential global body.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/24\/shoved-aside-fiji-set-to-lose-top-job-on-un-rights-body-in-global-power-struggle\">\u2018Shoved aside\u2019: Fiji set to lose top job on UN rights body in global power struggle<\/a> <\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/fijis-attorney-general-wont-face-charges-over-1987-bombings\">Fiji's attorney general won't face charges over 1987 bombings<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/20\/fiji-warned-on-failings-at-home-after-winning-un-human-rights-council-role\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/20\/fiji-warned-on-failings-at-home-after-winning-un-human-rights-council-role\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji won a fierce contest to head the global rights group, but coalition of NGOs says repression and abuses domestically must be addressed Fiji has won an intense and secretive geo-political battle to become the first Pacific island nation to win presi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,495,6,1337,111,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}