\u4e0b\u8f09\u5efa\u8b70 – (Download the recommendations in Chinese)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\nThe report is based largely on interviews with 55 people who have direct knowledge of China\u2019s interactions with UN human rights mechanisms, including 20 UN officials and experts, 15 foreign diplomats, and 20 civil society representatives.<\/p>\n
Chinese officials have at times harassed and intimidated UN staff, experts on treaty bodies, and independent experts focusing on specific human rights issues. One expert told Human Rights Watch that, \u201cthe whole UN machinery tries to make space for civil society while [China\u2019s] machinery works the other way, trying to shrink space for NGOs.\u201d China sharply limits the visits of UN experts to China, pressures the UN to exclude from committees potentially critical experts, and rarely provides substantive answers to queries by UN human rights bodies.<\/p>\n
In a particularly egregious example, authorities in China in 2013 detained activist Cao Shunli after she urged Beijing to consult with Chinese civil society in drafting its report for its UN human rights review, and tried to travel to Geneva to participate in human rights training sessions. After Cao became gravely ill in detention and died, the Chinese delegation in Geneva in March 2014 took the extraordinary step of challenging and blocking a ruling by the Human Rights Council president allowing a moment of silence called for by NGOs.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina is slated for its next Universal Periodic Review in 2018, but Cao Shunli\u2019s death has sent an enduring, chilling message to Chinese activists: participate at your own risk,\u201d Roth said.<\/p>\n
Senior UN officials, including Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein, regularly assert the UN\u2019s commitment to and reliance on independent civil society for information and analysis. At times, UN officials have pushed back against improper Chinese pressure or ignored Chinese efforts to influence their work.<\/p>\n
But in other circumstances, such as when it comes to maintaining access to the UN for critics of the Chinese government, including the Dalai Lama, Tibet\u2019s exiled spiritual leader, and Dolkun Isa, a well-known ethnic Uyghur activist, UN officials have capitulated to Chinese pressure, presumably to avoid confrontation with China.<\/p>\n
Such acquiescence at times has led to soft-pedaling of UN concerns about China\u2019s rights record, Human Rights Watch said. In January 2017, when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Geneva to give a speech at the UN\u2019s Palais des Nations, UN officials took the highly unusual steps of sending home early many of the approximately 3,000 staff and barring nongovernmental organizations from attending the speech.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UN system offers one of the few remaining channels for activists from China to share their views and press for improvements in Beijing\u2019s abysmal rights record,\u201d Roth said. \u201cUnless the UN and concerned governments put a stop to China\u2019s efforts to manipulate or weaken UN human rights mechanisms, the UN\u2019s credibility, and indeed its ability to defend rights in China and around the globe, are at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source:\u00a0Human Rights Watch<\/p>\n
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