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On 6 November 2018 during the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review of China, Switzerland called on China to close down its detention camps in Xinjiang, to grant the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights unrestricted access to Xinjiang, and to allow an independent UN investigation of the detention camps. [217]
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) that emerged from the 2005 UN reform process. [1] Commonly referred to as the UPR, it was established by General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 3 April 2006, the UPR periodically examines the human rights performance of all 193 UN Member States. [2]
An important component of the Council consists of a periodic review of all 193 UN member states, called the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). [52] The mechanism is based on reports coming from different sources, one of them being contributions from non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Each country's situation will be examined during a three ...
In United Nations bodies, China argues for a way of looking at the concept of universal human rights that differs from the Western view. [321] China's view is that a focus on political rights and values is a too narrow view of human rights, and should instead focus on economic outcomes, material well-being of people, and national sovereignty.
UN Human Rights Council's second cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China saw an almost three-fold increase of direct mentions of Tibet compared to the first cycle, and saw China accept one of our key recommendations (that China agree to the visit of the UN High Commissioner to China and Tibet and Xinjiang) (October 2013)
In November 2018 and March 2019, China accepted several recommendations pertaining to LGBT rights during its Universal Periodic Review. The "landmark" recommendations, from Argentina , Chile , France , Ireland , Mexico , the Netherlands and Sweden , urge China to pass an anti-discrimination law covering sexual orientation and enact anti ...
[48] [49] In the United Nations Human Rights Council's September 2008 Universal Periodic Review of the People's Republic of China, re-education through labor was listed as an "urgent human rights concern," [50] and as of February 2009, a large number of re-education through labor camps were still in operation. [51]
[1] Although both Cuba and China are ruled by a communist party, they were on different sides during the Cold War, with Cuba being an ally of the Soviet Union, which China usually opposed following the Sino-Soviet Split. China and Cuba experience good mutual relations, including through being members of the Belt and Road Initiative. China has ...