{"id":3265,"date":"2020-04-05T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T13:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2020-04-05T14:34:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:34:36","slug":"after-saudi-arabia-in-2019-the-un-appointed-china-to-its-human-rights-panel-in-april-3-2020-are-these-wise-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/after-saudi-arabia-in-2019-the-un-appointed-china-to-its-human-rights-panel-in-april-3-2020-are-these-wise-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"After Saudi Arabia (in 2019), the UN appointed China to its \u201cHuman Rights Panel\u201d (in April 3, 2020).  Are these wise choices?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UN_HumanRights.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3266\" width=\"349\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UN_HumanRights.jpg 664w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/UN_HumanRights-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 85vw, 349px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unwatch.org\/china-joins-u-n-human-rights-panel-will-help-pick-experts-on-free-speech-health-arbitrary-detention\/\">https:\/\/unwatch.org\/china-joins-u-n-human-rights-panel-will-help-pick-experts-on-free-speech-health-arbitrary-detention\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As described above, \u201cby joining the UNHRC panel, China\nwill be able to influence the selection of at least&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Vacancies-HRC44-46-.pdf\">17\nUN human rights mandate-holders<\/a>&nbsp;over the next year, known as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/HRBodies\/SP\/Pages\/Currentmandateholders.aspx\">special\nprocedures<\/a> [sic], who investigate,&nbsp;monitor, and publicly report on\neither specific country situations, or on thematic issues in all parts of the\nworld, such as freedom of speech and religion\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Talking about freedom of religion, in 2019, the UN appointed Saudi Arabia to the same panel. Isn\u2019t that another UN-joke?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/HRBodies\/HRC\/Pages\/Group2019.aspx\">https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/HRBodies\/HRC\/Pages\/Group2019.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does all this make any sense? Bambi bets that Mr. Raif\nBadawi \u2018s family in Sherbrooke (Qu\u00e9bec, Canada) was not that impressed by that\nchoice at the time \u2639.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/imprisoned-saudi-blogger-raif-badawi-begins-hunger-strike-1.4727238\">https:\/\/montreal.ctvnews.ca\/imprisoned-saudi-blogger-raif-badawi-begins-hunger-strike-1.4727238<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, Saudi Arabia has shown a few promising social changes in recent years. This is not enough for sure, but it is a start that should be commended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To come back to China, without punishing it for being\na dictatorship (especially that we depend too much on it), we must neither\nreward it nor sell our souls to it. Between the two extremes, there must be a\npolitical middle ground. Isn\u2019t it, Mr. Trudeau and \u201cteam of leaders\u201d, namely Ms.\nHajdu?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If not, without intending to, we would be insulting both the Chinese people striving for more freedom and the intelligence of Canadians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/unwatch.org\/china-joins-u-n-human-rights-panel-will-help-pick-experts-on-free-speech-health-arbitrary-detention\/ As described above, \u201cby joining the UNHRC panel, China will be able to influence the selection of at least&nbsp;17 UN human rights mandate-holders&nbsp;over the next year, known as&nbsp;special procedures [sic], who investigate,&nbsp;monitor, and publicly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3269,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}