Radio Free Asia 2020-04-08
China's appointment to a United Nations human rights panel has sparked a global outcry, especially among rights activists and ethnic minority groups subject to Beijing's rights abuses and discrimination.
The country was appointed on Wednesday to a panel where it will play a key role in selecting U.N. Human Rights Council's investigators charged with monitoring human rights, including abuses of the freedoms of speech, the right to health, enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention, the NGO U.N. Watch said in a report.
The group's executive director Hillel Neuer said the appointment was "like making a pyromaniac into the town fire chief," the report said.
"It’s absurd and immoral for the UN to allow China’s oppressive government a key role in selecting officials who shape international human rights standards and report on violations worldwide," it quoted Neuer as saying.
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