{"id":8914,"date":"2021-01-15T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117966\/un-human-rights-council-vote-new-chief-after-china-russia"},"modified":"2021-01-15T13:36:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:36:02","slug":"un-human-rights-council-to-vote-on-new-chief-after-china-russia-block-rights-champion-from-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/un-human-rights-council-to-vote-on-new-chief-after-china-russia-block-rights-champion-from-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Human Rights Council to vote on new chief after \u2018China, Russia block rights champion from Fiji\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"The UN Human Rights Council will this week hold an unprecedented secret ballot to pick its president after China and others blocked a candidate from Fiji considered to be a rights champion, sources and analysts said.\u201cThere has been a stand-off,\u201d a source close to the council who asked not to be named, said. \u201cIt is a very, very messy situation.\u201dThe dispute could underscore growing jostling in the top UN rights body by countries intent on steering it away from criticising nations for alleged\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3117966\/un-human-rights-council-vote-new-chief-after-china-russia\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN Human Rights Council will this week hold an unprecedented secret ballot to pick its president after China and others blocked a candidate from Fiji considered to be a rights champion, sources and analysts said.\u201cThere has been a stand-off,\u201d a sour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914"}],"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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8915,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions\/8915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}