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U.N. Rights Council Adopts Chinese Call for Cooperation

China has long faced accusations of interference with human rights work by and at the United Nations, including obstruction of inspections, intimidation of activists, and other suppression of civil society participation. In 2015 it mounted an unsuccessful attempt to allow countries to criticize NGOs anonymously during the U.N. accreditation process. The following year, it was part of a group of nations that blocked applications for U.N. consultative status by NGOs including