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China has been lobbying non-Western countries to praise its human rights record ahead of a key U.N. meeting where it will face questions and criticism over its actions in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, according to diplomats and documents. Four diplomats told Reuters that China's mission at the United Nations in Geneva had been sending memos to envoys in the build-up to the review of Beijing's record by the U.N. Human Rights Council scheduled for Tuesday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - China has been lobbying non-Western countries to praise its human rights record ahead of a key U.N. meeting where it will face questions and criticism over its actions in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, according to diplomats and documents.

Four diplomats told Reuters that China’s mission at the United Nations in Geneva had been sending memos to envoys in the build-up to the review of Beijing’s record by the U.N. Human Rights Council scheduled for Tuesday.

China’s mission did not respond directly to a request for comment on the reported lobbying. In a statement, it said Beijing “firmly opposes the politicization of human rights” and “promotes a fairer and more just, equitable and inclusive global human rights governance”.

Tuesday’s review will be the first since the U.N.'s top rights official released a report in 2022 saying the detention of Uyghurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity. China denies any abuses.

    • nekandro@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s always the same map. It’s a reflection of the spread of British (pre-WW2) and later American (post-WW2) ideas around the world, which explains the relative geographic outliers of Japan and South Korea as well as Australia.