{"id":59054,"date":"2023-10-08T22:27:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/campaigners-aim-to-lower-support-for-china-on-un-human-rights-council"},"modified":"2023-10-08T22:27:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T13:27:10","slug":"campaigners-aim-to-lower-support-for-china-on-un-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59054","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners aim to lower support for China on UN human rights council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentarians from 15 countries urge reduction in vote to signal disapproval of country\u2019s crackdown on Uyghur population<\/p>\n<p>An effort is under way to drive down the Chinese vote at the UN human rights council this week in an attempt to show continuing worldwide disapproval of its human rights record.<\/p>\n<p>The elections on to the world\u2019s premier human rights body take place by secret ballot on Tuesday with China guaranteed a seat in one of the uncontested seats from its region, but human rights campaigners are working to lower the level of Chinese support to show pressure on the country is not dissipating.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/08\/campaigners-aim-to-lower-support-for-china-on-un-human-rights-council\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentarians from 15 countries urge reduction in vote to signal disapproval of country\u2019s crackdown on Uyghur populationAn effort is under way to drive down the Chinese vote at the UN human rights council this week in an attempt to show continuing w&#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":[41,50,53,84,2052,42,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-human-rights","category-united-nations","category-uyghurs","category-world-news","category-xinjiang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59054","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=59054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59055,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59054\/revisions\/59055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}