China and the Universal Periodic Review 2018 by David Matas Introduction The human rights record of every member country of the United Nations comes up periodically for review at the UN Human Rights Council. For each country’s Universal Periodic Review session, three hours is allocated. The sessions are billed as interactive dialogues. Each state subject…
What is the UN Universal Periodic Review? Advance questions to China 1 Advance questions to China 2 ETAC STATEMENT China at the Universal Periodic Review must account for the vast number of transplants its hospitals report, up to 100,000 a year, far beyond the official figures – 13,263 for the year 2016. Researchers David…
BY EPOCH TIMES During the 29th Human Rights Council session in Geneva, on June 15, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein pledged to defend the world’s downtrodden and disenfranchised “without fear or favor” regardless of the victim or perpetrator’s identity and credentials. And on Monday, four leading international rights groups…
By Epoch Times GENEVA—A group of doctors, lawyers, and international activists met in the Palais des Nations, the headquarters of the U.N., to review what they said was mass murder carried out by the Chinese regime, and called upon the U.N. to open a full investigation of the matter. The call comes six months after…