India Abstains From Voting In The UNHRC’s Discussion Of How China Treats Uyghur Muslims
On October 6, India chose not to participate in the UN Human Rights Council’s vote on a draught resolution calling for a discussion of the human rights situation in China’s unrest-plagued Xinjiang region.
For years, human rights organizations have raised concerns about the situation in the resource-rich region of northwest China, claiming that over a million Uyghurs have been arbitrarily jailed in a vast network of facilities Beijing refers to as re-education camps.
The 47-member Council rejected the draught resolution on having a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China with 17 votes for, 19 votes against, including China, and 11 abstentions from countries like India, Brazil, Mexico, and Ukraine.
A core group of nations, including Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, introduced the draught resolution. A number of other nations, including Turkey, also co-sponsored it.
Human Rights Watch’s China director, Sophie Richardson, said in a statement that the UN’s top human rights committee, for the first time in its history, reviewed a proposal to discuss the human rights situation in China’s Xinjiang region.
Nothing, according to Richardson, can wash away the stain of China’s crimes against humanity, exposed naked by Michelle Bachelet’s latest report, a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Since late 2017, the UN Human Rights Office and UN human rights institutions have received serious claims of human rights breaches against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim populations in China.
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