{"id":697840,"date":"2022-06-13T14:55:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T14:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/13\/un-human-rights-chief-michelle-bachelet-no-second-term-china"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T15:18:10","slug":"un-human-rights-chief-says-no-to-second-term-after-china-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/13\/un-human-rights-chief-says-no-to-second-term-after-china-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"UN human rights chief to forgo second term amid China trip criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet, strongly criticised over Xinjiang visit, cites personal reasons for decision<\/p><p>The United Nations\u2019 human rights chief has announced her decision to step down, citing \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d, amid weeks of speculation following her recent China trip that drew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/09\/fury-at-un-human-rights-chief-over-whitewash-of-uyghur-repression\">fierce criticism from activists and western politicians<\/a>.<\/p><p>Writing on Twitter, Michelle Bachelet, who assumed the office of the UN high commissioner for human rights in 2018, said: \u201cIt is time to go back to Chile and be with family.\u201d<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/13\/un-human-rights-chief-michelle-bachelet-no-second-term-china\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/13\/un-human-rights-chief-michelle-bachelet-no-second-term-china\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet, strongly criticised over Xinjiang visit, cites personal reasons for decisionThe United Nations\u2019 human rights chief has announced her decision to step down, citing \u201cpersonal reasons\u201d, amid weeks of speculation following her recent Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,6,1331,640,9879,105,111,1641,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697840"}],"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\/4749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698026,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697840\/revisions\/698026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}