{"id":1694,"date":"2024-08-02T00:43:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2024-08-02T00:43:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:43:34","slug":"rubio-moves-to-cut-off-u-n-rapporteur-who-parroted-beijings-uyghur-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Moves to Cut Off U.N. Rapporteur Who Parroted Beijing\u2019s Uyghur Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alena Douhan is a U.N. special rapporteur who has consistently used her post to boost the interests of anti-U.S. dictatorships. Senator Marco Rubio introduced legislation today that seeks to abolish her job.<\/p>\n

Douhan\u2019s position concerns \u201cunilateral coercive measures\u201d \u2014 a term that dictatorships use at the U.N. in a campaign to undermine international sanctions that have been imposed in response to their abuses.<\/p>\n

Ostensibly, Douhan, a professor at Belarusian State University, is acting in her own independent capacity. But since she took this post in 2020, she has almost exclusively advocated the removal of all sanctions targeting China, Belarus, Venezuela, Iran, and other aligned countries. China and Russia have both\u00a0earmarked funding<\/a>\u00a0to support the work of her U.N. office.<\/p>\n

A recent trip<\/a>\u00a0that Douhan took to China appears to have been the final straw for Rubio. She visited Xinjiang and echoed the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s line that the only human-rights abuses taking place in the region are Western sanctions that target officials complicit in Beijing\u2019s genocide of Uyghurs there. In a letter to Biden last month, after Douhan\u2019s return, Rubio said \u201cthese moves are designed to serve as anti-U.S. guardrails and propaganda reference points for the CCP and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin\u2019s authoritarian agendas,\u201d and he encouraged the president to re-evaluate U.S. funding to the U.N<\/p>\n

The Biden administration has said that the U.S. votes against the existence of the \u201cunilateral coercive measures\u201d post at every possible opportunity. Rubio\u2019s bill adds teeth to the U.S. position by reducing U.S. contributions to the U.N. by an amount equal to 25 percent of the budget of the rapporteur\u2019s office. That by itself would hardly force the office\u2019s closure, as most U.N. rapporteurs receive minimal budgetary support, but it would represent a first step.<\/p>\n

source:https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/rubio-moves-to-cut-off-u-n-rapporteur-who-parroted-beijings-uyghur-propaganda\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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