{"id":746,"date":"2021-06-25T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/?p=746"},"modified":"2021-06-25T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:22:18","slug":"un-rights-boss-signals-she-may-move-on-xinjiang-without-china-nod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/un-rights-boss-signals-she-may-move-on-xinjiang-without-china-nod\/","title":{"rendered":"UN RIGHTS BOSS SIGNALS SHE MAY MOVE ON XINJIANG WITHOUT CHINA NOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reuters<\/a>. 25 June 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is an article published by Reuters<\/a>. Photo:Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United Nations human rights chief should document her own findings on the plight of Uyghurs in Xinjiang even without China\u2019s blessing for a visit, activists and Western diplomats say, amid signs that her patience may be running out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said on Monday that she hoped to agree on terms for a long-sought visit to China this year to look into allegations of mass detention, torture and forced labour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beijing denies all allegations of abuse of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, describing camps in its far west as vocational training facilities to combat religious extremism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada led a record 45 countries, including the United States, in urging China on Tuesday to allow Bachelet immediate access to Xinjiang for a first-hand assessment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

China rejected the statement as interference driven by \u201cpolitical motives\u201d. It said it welcomed a visit by Bachelet, but that it should be focused on \u201cpromoting exchanges and cooperation rather than an investigation based on so-called presumption of guilt\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bachelet later dropped a hint to the Human Rights Council that she has other options, while still pursuing negotiations with China on a visit that have dragged on since September 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the meantime, the office continues to deepen its analysis and assessment of the alleged patterns of human rights violations in Xinjiang,\u201d she said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bachelet has the authority to collect testimonies of abuses remotely, without a mandate from the council or invitation from the country concerned. She and a predecessor initiated such probes on killings by security forces in Venezuela, the disputed Kashmir territory and southeastern Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is no formal U.N. assessment of what is happening in Xinjiang and we need that given Beijing\u2019s denial,\u201d Kenneth Roth, head of Human Rights Watch, told reporters last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International this year documented what they said could constitute crimes against humanity being committed in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Brooks, China expert at the International Service for Human Rights, said: \u201cAll that remains is for High Commissioner Bachelet to step up \u2013 China\u2019s cooperation must not be misinterpreted as a precondition to doing her job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reuters. 25 June 2021 Below is an article published by Reuters. Photo:Reuters. The United Nations human rights chief should document her own findings on the plight of Uyghurs in Xinjiang even without China\u2019s blessing for a visit, activists and Western diplomats say,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}