China has been lobbying non-Western countries to praise its human rights record ahead of a key U.N. meeting where it will face questions and criticism over its actions in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, according to diplomats and documents. Four diplomats told Reuters that China's mission at the United Nations in Geneva had been sending memos to envoys in the build-up to the review of Beijing's record by the U.N. Human Rights Council scheduled for Tuesday.
Diplomats said that other countries sometimes try to influence others' statements at the UN Human Rights Council, but that the scale of Chinese lobbying was exceptional
Sao Paulo: Raphael Viana David, the Programme Manager for China and Latin America at International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), led a delegation of Uyghur and Hong Kong activists to Tibet House Brasil in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 26 to 27 May 2023.
The Human Rights Desk of the Office of Tibet in
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