CNS News
November 12, 2013
Due to an absence of competition, Tuesday’s vote at the General
Assembly in New York will see China, Russia and Saudi Arabia all return
to the council in January, just one year after term limits obliged them
to stand down. They will be joined by Vietnam, which will take a seat
for the first time since the Geneva-based HRC was established in 2006.The State Department’s latest report on human rights in China describes it as “an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party constitutionally is the paramount authority.” The report also cited China for its coercive one-child-per couple policy which sometimes resulted in “forced abortion” or “forced sterilization.”
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