Human Rights in UN to be protected by China?!

It sounds like a joke created under the stress of the coronavirus crisis. But, unfortunately, it is true! In the middle of the coronavirus crisis, that started exactly in China, we hear that the UN has approved China to be part of the UN Human Rights Council (Human Rights Watch). This unsound decision is opposed by many independent human rights organizations. They are asking UN leadership to denounce the appointment of China.     

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What does a Member of the UN Human Rights Council? 

The UNHCR influential Consultative Group is composed of 5 members. Each member represents one particular country. This council plays a key role in picking the world body's human rights investigators - including global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention.

The decision to have China joining this group makes possible for it (China) to lead the process of appointment of at least 17 human rights mandate-holders over the next year. These are people who investigate, monitor, and publicly report on either specific country situations, or on thematic issues in all parts of the world, such as freedom of speech and religion. 

That being said, I fully agree with the irritation of human rights activists. China is one of the countries around the world that symbolize the violation of human rights. How can the world trust and respect the new representatives of UNHCR for human rights? Or, probably for the first time in the UN history proposed candidate from the consultative group will not be mandated by the organization?!

I don't know what will happen during this year with the selection process of human rights investigators. But, for sure the UN decision is sneering to the memory of students crashed by tanks in Tiananmen Square. Those students died again and this time the guilty party is the UN leaders.

This was the result of the Tiananmen Square massacre after the tanks left.
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The successors of the same communist regime will now be responsible to select the independent officials that will protect human rights around the world. And, this is acceptable for UN leaders' standards?! Quite amazing!

What can I say ... some officials have lost completely the big picture and are so afraid to maintain strict standing on some untouchable and uncompromised matters such as human rights are.

I am very curious to see what will be the report of the new investigators on the charges of the USA and some other countries against China for misinformation on the coronavirus crisis there. I hope China will not be the leader of the panel for the selection of those health investigators. I hope UN leadership will listen to the objections of international activists and will correct an unacceptable mistake like this.

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