Wednesday, November 20, 2019

28 African Countries Support China's Policy on Uighurs in Xinjiang

Pass Blue, which provides independent coverage of the UN, posted on 17 November 2019 an article tilted "China Flexes Its Economic Might More Openly at the UN on Human Rights" by Stephanie Fillion.

The article reports that 54 countries submitted a joint declaration at the UN which states "We commend China's remarkable achievements in the field of human rights by adhering to the people-centered development philosophy and protecting and promoting human rights through development" while also citing "the challenge of terrorism and extremism" in Xinjiang.

The 28 African countries (more than half of all the signatories) that signed the declaration were Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Comoros, Congo, DRC, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Nearly all of these countries have serious human rights problems of their own and most are among the most autocratic in Africa.