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China and the United Nations: The United Nations is committed to world peace and respect for human rights. In recent years, China has been facing allegations of human rights abuses, especially in Xinjiang. The Human Rights Council (UNHCR) is dealing with China’s human rights violations. Find out all current news in China.Table.

What is the United Nations?

The United Nations, also known as the United Nations Organization (UNO/ UN), is an intergovernmental association of 193 states. The UNs’ most important tasks are to ensure world peace, uphold international law and respect human rights.

The United Nations was founded in 1945. Its headquarters are in New York City. The current Secretary-General of the UN is the Portuguese politician António Guterres.

Is China part of the United Nations?

China is a member of the United Nations and a permanent member of the UN Security Council. In 1945, the Republic of China was a founding member of the UN.

Today, the People’s Republic faces serious allegations of human rights violations, especially in the regions of Xinjiang and Tibet. For several years, then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet had been demanding access to the province of Xinjiang to conduct an independent investigation about human rights violations against the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority.

Until 2022, China had repeatedly rejected visits of the High Commissioner. China on the one hand justified the denial with the ongoing corona pandemic, but also accused the Human Rights Council of the UN that investigations were aimed at harming China.

In May 2022, however, Michele Bachelet visited China including the province of Xinjiang. The UN report on the human rights situation in Xinjiang was published in August 2022, after it had been postponed for over a year.

China.Table provides you with all important developments on China’s human rights situation and news on China and the United Nations.

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Michelle Bachelet presented the UN report on the human rights situation in Xinjiang at the end of her term in office. The document is a reckoning with the Chinese government, which tried to prevent its publication until the very end. The paper clearly goes beyond the rhetoric that she had usually displayed toward Beijing. continue reading →

Hardly any political statement on Taiwan can do without the One-China principle. But all parties to the conflict understand it differently. Most recently, China has successfully continued to impose its interpretation on the United Nations. continue reading →

According to a media report, China wants to prevent the publication of a UN report on the human rights situation in Xinjiang. In a letter to diplomats in Geneva, the publication of the report by the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, was opposed, Reuters reported, citing insight into the letter. The move was […] continue reading →

UN negotiations to finalize a global pact to protect nature (COP15) is to be moved to Canada in December. China, as the actual host, agreed to the relocation on Monday. The UN summit was scheduled to take place in Kunming in the third quarter of 2022. There, 195 nations planned to adopt a new agreement […] continue reading →

The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, delays the publication of her assessment of Chinese human rights violations in Xinjiang even at the end of her term. Beijing even gets the opportunity to help shape the content of the paper. Critics, therefore, see themselves confirmed that the former Chilean President never planned to criticize China. continue reading →

The China trip of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has sparked strong criticism from international Xinjiang experts. In an open letter to the Chilean, 37 signatories, including German anthropologist Adrian Zenz and sinologist Bjoern Alpermann of the University of Würzburg, express their disbelief at Bachelet’s classifications of human rights violations in the […] continue reading →

The European Union has expressed “regret” over the trip of UN human rights envoy Michelle Bachelet. Bachelet did not have full access to persecuted groups, individuals and detention centers during her visit to Xinjiang last week, European External Action Service (EEAS) spokeswoman Nabila Massrali lamented in Brussels on Monday.Massrali pointed to extensive “credible reports about […] continue reading →

Critics feel vindicated: no progress on the human rights issue, independent media representatives were not allowed to accompany her on her trip to the Uyghur province of Xinjiang. Her visit provided the communist leadership with a propaganda success. There were even calls for her resignation. Now UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has defended herself.In […] continue reading →

As the UN Commissioner for Human Rights visits China, a consortium of international media publishes new documents on massive human rights crimes in Xinjiang. The Xinjiang Police Files reveal the direct involvement of the Communist Party's innermost circle of power in the brutal internment of millions of Uyghurs. There are already calls for further sanctions. continue reading →

The United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, arrived in China on Monday for a six-day visit. Bachelet’s travel schedule will include a visit to Xinjiang. The autonomous region in the northwest of the People’s Republic has gained high international attention for ongoing human rights abuses by Chinese authorities against minorities. Numerous democratic governments […] continue reading →

The disappearance of three Tibetans is currently a matter of concern for the UN Human Rights Council. In a letter to the representative of the People’s Republic of China, the Special Rapporteurs of the Swiss-based body request information on the whereabouts and health status of the writer Lobsang Lhundup, singer Lhundrup Dhrakpa and teacher Rinchen […] continue reading →

According to a United Nations expert, China has continued to supply Myanmar’s junta with weapons since last year’s coup. UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, called on the UN Security Council to call an emergency meeting to “ban those arms transfers that the Myanmar military are known to […] continue reading →

China has accused the US of not sharing enough information about SpaceX satellites. The accusation was that the Starlink satellites of Elon Musk’s company came dangerously close to the Chinese space station, Bloomberg reports. It claimed that US authorities shared insufficient information about a possible collision course. “Chinese astronauts were facing real and urgent safety […] continue reading →

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has urged China’s President Xi Jinping to grant UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet a “credible” visit to his country. Guterres had met with the Chinese president and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday on the sidelines of the Beijing Games. “The Secretary-General … expressed his expectation that the contacts […] continue reading →

In the past ten years, things have become relatively quiet around Tibet and the Dalai Lama. The spiritual leader of the Tibetans once traveled around the world to draw attention to the fate of his people. He also came to Germany, met the German Chancellor, and was a guest on TV talk shows.But times have […] continue reading →

A new dispute has erupted over the status of Taiwan. On Monday, China’s State and Party leader Xi Jinping said in a speech that with Resolution 2758, the United Nations General Assembly had recognized on October 25, 1971, that the government representatives of the People’s Republic were the “only legitimate representative of China.” He spoke […] continue reading →

Kristalina Georgieva is the director of the International Monetary Fund. She is accused of manipulating a country's ranking in Beijing's favor during her recent work for the World Bank. US congressmen and economists consider her no longer tenable and are calling for her resignation. Europeans, on the other hand, are coming to her defense. The accusations have not yet been proven. Is China's leadership systematically abusing international organizations for its own ends? continue reading →

On Monday, the UN Biodiversity Conference began in Kunming, China. The week-long event focuses on the fight against the rapid extinction of species. During the opening, German Development Minister Gerd Müller (CSU) called on the international community to take joint action at the start. “We have no time to lose. Every day 150 species become […] continue reading →