China flag. File photoGENEVA, May 20.UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will visit China May 23-28 and is also expected to travel to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.»UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet begins a six-day official mission to China on Monday Government of the country. This is the first visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to China since 2005,» the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement. and local levels. The High Commissioner will also meet with representatives of civil society, business, academia and give a lecture to students of Guangzhou University. It is specified that the visit of the UN High Commissioner to Kashgar and Urumqi, located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is planned.
China will win a reputational victory in issuing a US loan, expert believes At the end of August 2018, experts from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reported in a report that up to one million ethnic Uighurs may be in «re-education camps» in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that the information about the content of the Uyghurs in «re-educational camps» is not confirmed in any way and does not correspond to reality. The Chinese authorities argue that Xinjiang-related issues are not human rights issues, not ethnic or religious issues, the Xinjiang issue is about violence, terrorism and separatism. Xinjiang often becomes an occasion for criticism of China on the international stage. For example, the United States regularly accuses Beijing of violating human rights by organizing a system of labor camps against Muslims in Xinjiang. The State Department calls the situation with respect to the national and religious minorities in Xinjiang «terrifying» and accuses Beijing of «turning the region into a prison camp.» The United States annually includes China in the list of countries violating religious freedoms. Beijing denies the accusations and accuses the US of hypocrisy.
