{"id":27081,"date":"2021-01-20T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/20\/fiji-warned-on-failings-at-home-after-winning-un-human-rights-council-role"},"modified":"2021-01-20T05:00:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T20:00:04","slug":"fiji-warned-on-failings-at-home-after-winning-un-human-rights-council-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27081","title":{"rendered":"Fiji warned on failings at home after winning UN human rights council role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji won a fierce contest to head the global rights group, but coalition of NGOs says repression and abuses domestically must be addressed <\/p>\n<p>Fiji has won an intense and secretive geo-political battle to become the first Pacific island nation to win presidency of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/hrbodies\/hrc\/pages\/home.aspx\">United Nations Human Rights Council<\/a>, but its ascension has come with demands from critics for it to address systemic rights abuses at home.<\/p>\n<p>Overcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/24\/shoved-aside-fiji-set-to-lose-top-job-on-un-rights-body-in-global-power-struggle\">last-minute challenges from Bahrain<\/a> and Uzbekistan, both backed by China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, Fiji decisively won 29 out of 47 votes to take control of the powerful and influential global body.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/20\/fiji-warned-on-failings-at-home-after-winning-un-human-rights-council-role\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji won a fierce contest to head the global rights group, but coalition of NGOs says repression and abuses domestically must be addressed Fiji has won an intense and secretive geo-political battle to become the first Pacific island nation to win presi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"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":[41,436,53,874,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-human-rights","category-pacific-islands","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\/27081","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\/1104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27082,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27081\/revisions\/27082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}