{"id":23776,"date":"2020-10-14T04:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/saudi-arabia-fails-to-join-un-human-rights-council-but-russia-and-china-elected"},"modified":"2020-10-14T04:13:28","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T19:13:28","slug":"saudi-arabia-fails-to-join-un-human-rights-council-but-russia-and-china-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23776","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia fails to join UN human rights council but Russia and China elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Result follows warnings from human rights groups that UN body\u2019s credibility at stake<\/p>\n<p>Russia and China have been elected to the UN human rights council for the next three years, but Saudi Arabia failed in its attempt to win a place on the 47-seat body.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a severe blow to the country\u2019s efforts to improve its image in the wake of the admitted killing of the Saudi citizen and Washington Post reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/jamal-khashoggi\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/saudi-arabia-fails-to-join-un-human-rights-council-but-russia-and-china-elected\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Result follows warnings from human rights groups that UN body\u2019s credibility at stakeRussia and China have been elected to the UN human rights council for the next three years, but Saudi Arabia failed in its attempt to win a place on the 47-seat body.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,950,53,1728,419,398,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-dominic-raab","category-human-rights","category-lisa-nandy","category-russia","category-saudi-arabia","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23777,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776\/revisions\/23777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}