WEEKLY BRIEF, 04 March 2022
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49th Session of the UN Human Rights Council
The UN 49th Session of the Human Rights Council kicked off this week, in Geneva.The UN Secretary-General Antonia Guterres reiterated his call on China to allow the High Commissioner a ”credible visit to China”, including to East Turkistan. During the High-Level Segment, the Foreign Ministers of Germany, Australia, Japan, France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Czech Republic, and Turkey raised their concerns about the severe human rights violations committed by the Chinese government against Uyghurs and other Turkic people. Furthermore, these governments also urged the UN High Commissioner to imminently publish her report on the situation in East Turkistan, which was to be published around January.