China Rallies Friends, Stifles Human Rights Criticism at U.N. Universal Periodic Review
This week, China underwent its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the U.N. This ritual is a...
Jan 26, 2024
This week, China underwent its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the U.N. This ritual is a...
Dec 14, 2023
This week in Dubai, after two weeks of negotiations among representatives from almost 200 countries, the COP28 climate summit closed on a “historic” note: an agreement that calls for “transitioning away” from fossil fuels in...
Jun 22, 2023
Last week, the U.N. Human Rights Council began its 53rd session in Geneva, where country representatives will spend four weeks scrutinizing one anothers’ human rights records. China is a major presence, given the former U.N....
Feb 9, 2023
This week, three U.N. human rights experts stated that roughly one million Tibetan children have been separated from their families and put into state-run boarding schools in an ongoing effort by the Chinese government to...
Nov 18, 2022
At the closing of the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, world leaders congratulated themselves on having achieved a rare moment of unity: issuing a joint statement that “deplores in the strongest terms the aggression by the Russian...
Oct 7, 2022
On Thursday, the U.N. Human Rights Council voted against a motion to debate the human rights situation in Xinjiang. The vote, occurring one month after then-U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet released a...
Sep 2, 2022
With about ten minutes to midnight on her last day as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet finally released her long-overdue report on Xinjiang. The 46-page report concluded that the Chinese government has...
Oct 9, 2020
The United Nations General Assembly will vote next week for 15 seats on the U.N. Human Rights Council. The council consists of 47 countries, elected annually for staggered three-year terms. Members vie for seats within their...
May 29, 2020
The following is an excerpt of an article titled “China’s win-win at the UN Human Rights Council: Just not for human rights” by Andréa Worden. Read the full text of the article at Project Sinopsis. Before the Human...
Apr 17, 2020
U.S. president Donald Trump announced this week that he would suspend American funding to the World Health Organization while launching an investigation into its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO has come under fire...
Mar 15, 2019
On March 14, 2014, lawyer and rights activist Cao Shunli died after being denied medical treatment...
Nov 7, 2018
In Geneva on Tuesday, China faced its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on human rights. UN...
Sep 6, 2017
In recent years, China has faced repeated accusations of interfering with human rights work by and...
Jul 12, 2016
On Tuesday, the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) announced the final decision in a case...
Mar 10, 2016
At a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, China received criticism from...
Dec 11, 2015
The U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris has been extended by one day after parties...