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Report Details Interference in U.N. Rights Mechanisms

In recent years, China has faced repeated accusations of interfering with human rights work by and at the United Nations, from obstructing inspections to intimidating activists and otherwise suppressing civil society participation. In 2015 it mounted an unsuccessful attempt to allow countries to criticize NGOs anonymously during the U.N. accreditation process. Last year, it was part of a group of nations that blocked applications for U.N. consultative status by NGOs