{"id":49136,"date":"2022-10-06T23:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/un-vote-ignore-human-rights-abuses-china-leaves-west-dead-end"},"modified":"2022-10-06T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:51:39","slug":"un-vote-to-ignore-human-rights-abuses-in-china-leaves-west-in-dead-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49136","title":{"rendered":"UN vote to ignore human rights abuses in China leaves west in dead end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Result not to debate its own damning report shows many states are unwilling to take sides in power struggle between China and west<\/p>\n<p>In a display of raw Chinese political power, the UN has voted to turn its back on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/31\/china-uyghur-muslims-xinjiang-michelle-bachelet-un\">report written by its own human rights commissioner<\/a> that accused Beijing of serious human rights abuses and possible crimes against humanity in Xinjiang province.<\/p>\n<p>The 47-strong UN human rights council meeting in Geneva voted on Thursday by 19 to 17 to reject an American-led call for a debate on the report at the next human rights council in spring. Eleven countries abstained. A simple majority was required.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/06\/un-vote-ignore-human-rights-abuses-china-leaves-west-dead-end\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Result not to debate its own damning report shows many states are unwilling to take sides in power struggle between China and westIn a display of raw Chinese political power, the UN has voted to turn its back on a report written by its own human rights&#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":[41,50,53,86,84,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-law","category-united-nations","category-us-news","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\/49136","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=49136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49137,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136\/revisions\/49137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}