{"id":829257,"date":"2022-10-06T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/un-vote-ignore-human-rights-abuses-china-leaves-west-dead-end"},"modified":"2022-10-06T14:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:51:39","slug":"un-vote-to-ignore-human-rights-abuses-in-china-leaves-west-in-dead-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/10\/06\/un-vote-to-ignore-human-rights-abuses-in-china-leaves-west-in-dead-end\/","title":{"rendered":"UN vote to ignore human rights abuses in China leaves west in dead end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Result not to debate its own damning report shows many states are unwilling to take sides in power struggle between China and west<\/p><p>In a display of raw Chinese political power, the UN has voted to turn its back on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/china-uyghur-muslims-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-un\">report written by its own human rights commissioner<\/a> that accused Beijing of serious human rights abuses and possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang province.<\/p><p>The 47-strong UN human rights council meeting in Geneva voted on Thursday by 19 to 17 to reject an American-led call for a debate on the report at the next human rights council in spring. Eleven countries abstained. A simple majority was required.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/un-vote-ignore-human-rights-abuses-china-leaves-west-dead-end\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/un-vote-ignore-human-rights-abuses-china-leaves-west-dead-end\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Result not to debate its own damning report shows many states are unwilling to take sides in power struggle between China and westIn a display of raw Chinese political power, the UN has voted to turn its back on a report written by its own human rights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,190,6,640,111,1315,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829257"}],"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=829257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829258,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829257\/revisions\/829258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}