{"id":42278,"date":"2022-03-09T00:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/un-human-rights-chief-michelle-bachelet-xinjiang-china-visit"},"modified":"2022-03-09T00:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:51:39","slug":"un-human-rights-chief-to-visit-china-including-xinjiang-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42278","title":{"rendered":"UN human rights chief to visit China, including Xinjiang, in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet\u2019s announcement comes as 192 groups call for release of long-postponed report into region<\/p>\n<p>The UN rights chief has announced that she will make a long-delayed visit to China in May, including to Xinjiang, where activists and western lawmakers say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/09\/uyghurs-subjected-to-genocide-by-china-unofficial-uk-tribunal-finds\">Beijing is subjecting Uyghur people to genocide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to announce that we have recently reached an agreement with the government of China for a visit,\u201d Michelle Bachelet told the UN human rights council on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/08\/un-human-rights-chief-michelle-bachelet-xinjiang-china-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Bachelet\u2019s announcement comes as 192 groups call for release of long-postponed report into regionThe UN rights chief has announced that she will make a long-delayed visit to China in May, including to Xinjiang, where activists and western lawm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2324,"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":[41,50,53,1926,84,2052,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-michelle-bachelet","category-united-nations","category-uyghurs","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\/42278","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\/2324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42279,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42278\/revisions\/42279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}