{"id":48628,"date":"2022-09-19T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/west-un-china-uyghur-abuses-inquiry-human-rights-council"},"modified":"2022-09-19T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T06:53:21","slug":"west-weighs-calling-for-china-uyghur-abuses-inquiry-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48628","title":{"rendered":"West weighs calling for China Uyghur abuses inquiry at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battle over influence at Human Rights Council, with Beijing warning of \u2018politicisation of human rights\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Western powers are weighing the risk of a potential defeat if they table a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council calling for an independent commission to investigate alleged human rights abuses by China in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is a litmus case for Chinese influence at the UN, as well as the willingness of the UN to endorse a worldview that protects individual rights from authoritarian states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/west-un-china-uyghur-abuses-inquiry-human-rights-council\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle over influence at Human Rights Council, with Beijing warning of \u2018politicisation of human rights\u2019Western powers are weighing the risk of a potential defeat if they table a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council calling for an independent commi&#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":[41,50,53,447,86,84,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-islam","category-law","category-united-nations","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628","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=48628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48629,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48628\/revisions\/48629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}