CHINA-UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (UNHRC) RESOLUTION ADOPTS CHINESE-WORDED RESOLUTION

On March 23, 2018 the UNHRC passed a resolution that without specifying any immediate action called for “a community of shared future for human beings” and “mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of human rights.” The resolution was initiated by PRC Ambassador Yu Jianhua. The official Party newspaper ' People’s Daily' celebrated its adoption as a setback to the West’s monopoly on rights and “a major shift in the global human rights conversation."

(Comment: China has generally remained passive at the 47-member UNHRC for almost a decade but there has been a change and this is the second resolution it has moved in the past 9 months. Only the US voted against the latest proposal though 17 other countries abstained. Japan, Australia and Switzerland criticized the initiative. The resolution's co-sponsors included Syria, Egypt, Myanmar, Venezuela, Burundi, Cambodia and Eritrea.)






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