UNHRC: At the 51st common session of the UN Human Rights Council, India didn’t take part within the vote on a draft decision calling for a dialogue of the human rights state of affairs in China’s Xinjiang area.
“Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on having a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED,” acknowledged a tweet from the UN Human Rights Council.
The draft decision, which dealt a blow to the West, was proposed by a core group of nations within the 47-member Council, together with Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, UK, and the United States, and co-sponsored by plenty of different nations, together with Turkey.
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Only 17 members voted in favour of the talk regardless of the international locations’ makes an attempt to garner help. The international locations claimed that the Chinese authorities had violated the human rights of the Uyghur group within the province of Xinjiang. A complete of 19 members, together with China, Pakistan, and Nepal, voted towards. Brazil, Mexico, Ukraine, India, and 11 different members selected to abstain.
There was no settlement amongst UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) member states regardless of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in August that potential crimes towards humanity came about in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
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Human rights organisations and campaigners have responded angrily to the council’s developments.
“Today’s vote protects the perpetrators of human rights violations rather than the victims,” stated Agnes Callamard, secretary basic of Amnesty International, “a dismaying result that puts the UN’s main human rights body in the farcical position of ignoring the findings of the UN’s own human rights office.”
China’s assault on Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and different primarily Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, carried out underneath the pretence of combating terrorism, has been extensively documented since 2017.
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