{"id":803280,"date":"2022-09-19T06:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/west-un-china-uyghur-abuses-inquiry-human-rights-council"},"modified":"2022-09-19T06:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:53:21","slug":"west-weighs-calling-for-china-uyghur-abuses-inquiry-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/19\/west-weighs-calling-for-china-uyghur-abuses-inquiry-at-un\/","title":{"rendered":"West weighs calling for China Uyghur abuses inquiry at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battle over influence at Human Rights Council, with Beijing warning of \u2018politicisation of human rights\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Western powers are weighing the risk of a potential defeat if they table a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council calling for an independent commission to investigate alleged human rights abuses by China in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is a litmus case for Chinese influence at the UN, as well as the willingness of the UN to endorse a worldview that protects individual rights from authoritarian states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/west-un-china-uyghur-abuses-inquiry-human-rights-council\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle over influence at Human Rights Council, with Beijing warning of \u2018politicisation of human rights\u2019Western powers are weighing the risk of a potential defeat if they table a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council calling for an independent commi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,6,1331,640,1,111,1641,1310,1324],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803280"}],"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\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803476,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803280\/revisions\/803476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}