SENATE RESOLUTION: China Human Rights Council Resolution (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A RESOLUTION
Condemning the appointment of China to the United Nations Human Rights Council

In the Atlasian Senate and House of Representatives,

Whereas the United Nations Human Rights Council plays a key role in picking the world's body human rights investigators — including global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention;

Whereas members of the UNHRC panel will be able to influence the selection of at least 17 UN human rights mandate-holders over the next year, known as special procedures, who investigate, monitor, and publicly report on either specific country situations, or on thematic issues in all parts of the world, such as freedom of speech and religion;

Whereas the People's Republic of China routinely imposes draconian censorship and has forcibly disappeared citizens who express dissent like the executive Ren Zhiqiang, who called President Xi Jinping a ‘clown’ over the country's coronavirus response — as well as upwards of a 1 million Muslim Uyghur and minority group members;

Whereas the Chinese government is widely considered to commit gross and systematic violations of human rights affecting its 1.3 billion people, including human rights activists;

Resolved, that the Atlasian Senate and House of Representatives—

(1) affirm the basic human rights of all peoples, including but not limited to the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of religion, and the right to work and education; and

(2) oppose and condemn the inclusion of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations Human Rights Council, which threatens to undermine the credibility of the UN’s highest human rights body and is liable to cast a shadow upon the United Nations as a whole.

Sponsor: Scott
Senate Designation: SR23:13

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Talk to me now!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A lot of these international organizations, especially those with the UN are trying to replicate a model that works in one area, namely post-WWII peace keeping and use that in other areas.

The problem is that while most everyone in the world wants peace, the same cannot be said for human rights, free trade, health etc. The model that works for peace requires universal buy in, but for this obvious reason universal buy in means you have people in these organizations whose systems are horrendous on a number of areas, suddenly leading or a part of councils that they have no business being involved with.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So with the GM input, where does that leave the resolution.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Motion for a final vote.

Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Just in case there is some objections I am going to sanction this vote. Deputy PPT lapses at beginning of each session.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

24 hours to change votes etc.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on final Senate passage of the China Human Rights Council Resolution:

Aye (6) Jimmy, LT, NC Yankee, Scott, Tack50, and YE
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

This resolution has passed and is sent to the Vice President.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A RESOLUTION
Condemning the appointment of China to the United Nations Human Rights Council

In the Atlasian Senate and House of Representatives,

Whereas the United Nations Human Rights Council plays a key role in picking the world's body human rights investigators — including global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention;

Whereas members of the UNHRC panel will be able to influence the selection of at least 17 UN human rights mandate-holders over the next year, known as special procedures, who investigate, monitor, and publicly report on either specific country situations, or on thematic issues in all parts of the world, such as freedom of speech and religion;

Whereas the People's Republic of China routinely imposes draconian censorship and has forcibly disappeared citizens who express dissent like the executive Ren Zhiqiang, who called President Xi Jinping a ‘clown’ over the country's coronavirus response — as well as upwards of a 1 million Muslim Uyghur and minority group members;

Whereas the Chinese government is widely considered to commit gross and systematic violations of human rights affecting its 1.3 billion people, including human rights activists;

Resolved, that the Atlasian Senate and House of Representatives—

(1) affirm the basic human rights of all peoples, including but not limited to the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of religion, and the right to work and education; and

(2) oppose and condemn the inclusion of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations Human Rights Council, which threatens to undermine the credibility of the UN’s highest human rights body and is liable to cast a shadow upon the United Nations as a whole.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,