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The U.N. Human Rights Council panel which #China just joined has begun its work. For starters, over April and May, President Xi Jinping's regime will play a central role in selecting the U.N.'s next global monitors on Freedom of Expression and on Health.

ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HR…
Extract from U.N. Human Rights Council's bureau meeting minutes in which UNHRC President announced that the 5-nation Consultative Group—the one China just joined—"formally took up its work as of 1 April 2020." Other members are Chad, Slovenia & Spain; Latin American member TBD.
Over the next year, 🇨🇳 China will play a central role in selecting the UNHRC monitors on:
🇺🇳 Health
🇺🇳 Human trafficking
🇺🇳 Arbitrary detention
🇺🇳 Freedom of speech
🇺🇳 Human rights in Sudan
🇺🇳 Enforced disappearances
🇺🇳 Human rights in Cambodia
🇺🇳 Discrimination against women
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"Madam Chair, I wish to list 5 of the world’s worst violators of religious freedom:
🇨🇳 China
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇵🇰 Pakistan
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🇵🇰 Pakistan
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No joke: #China joins U.N. Human Rights Council panel, where it will help select the U.N.'s next world monitors on freedom of speech, enforced disappearances & arbitrary detention—and on health. That's like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief. unwatch.org/china-joins-u-…
China’s appointment to the UNHRC’s influential Consultative Group, comprised of only five nations, was announced in a letter submitted to the Council on Wednesday by Oman on behalf of the Asian Group, and confirmed by a notice on the website of the UN human rights office.
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1/ SHAME: Asked by @yvonne_tg @thepulse_rthk about #Taiwan's participation in the U.N.'s World Health Organization, its official Bruce Aylward says "I can't...could't hear"; then hangs up; and then when called back & asked again, he quickly shuts down the interview. #Covid_19
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3/ The World Health Organization failed to communicate Taiwan's warning in December of possible human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus, the Financial Times reported.

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