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#180 THE G|O BRIEFING, MAY 17, 2024

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Exclusive: China Seeks to Quash Dissent Ahead UN Review of Its Human Rights Record

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Exclusive: China Seeks to Quash Dissent Ahead UN Review of Its Human Rights Record

| UN Human Rights Council to hold five-year review of China next week | Beijing urges UN to prevent ‘anti-China separatists’ from attending UPR | Uyghur, Tibetan, and Hong Kong activists to attend review, and plan demo

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A year after the Bachelet report on China’s repression of the Uyghurs, how to deal with Beijing’s human rights violations? Volker Türk’s arduous task in a fast-shifting geopolitical landscape

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New York Braces Itself for Tense UN Security Council Elections

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Veteran Human Rights Defender to Probe Repression in Russia for the UN

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Qatar has long targeted International Geneva in efforts to burnish its image

Partnerships with FIFA, one of the world’s most powerful and wealthy sport organizations, may undoubtedly seem alluring; but is it worth the risk of associating with what critics claim is a system riddled with corruption, now also tainted by Qatar’s influence buying?

#122, The G|O Briefing, December 15, 2022

Before Brussels, Geneva has long been Qatar’s target in efforts to burnish its reputation | FIFA's World Cup Follies

Refusal to discuss the human rights situation in China is a defining moment for the Human Rights Council—and a rebuke to the West

“This is just the beginning of the clash between China and the US at the Human Rights Council. The confrontation will dominate every aspect of international politics for years to come”

The complicated process of finding a successor to Michelle Bachelet

The job is one of the most exposed in the UN, but that has not stopped more than fifty people from coming forward—some of whom have even phoned Bachelet directly to express their interest.

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A blistering report and a new challenge for Geneva—how to deal with it?

Finally released by the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, just a few minutes before leaving office at midnight yesterday (August 31), the long-awaited report from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is damning.

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