NEW YORK - China is using its economic and diplomatic might to carry out the"most intense attack" ever on the global system for protecting human rights, a leading campaign group said on Tuesday .
To fend off global efforts to hold it to account, Beijing has"significantly increased" efforts to undermine the international institutions created in the mid-20th century to defend human rights, HRW said. Roth was supposed to give a news conference this week in the semi-autonomous Chinese region of Hong Kong, which has been battered by nearly seven months of occasionally violent protests, in China's biggest political crisis in decades.Instead he launched HRW's World Report 2020, which reviews human rights practices in nearly 100 countries, at the United Nations headquarters.
TRUMP, MODI, BOLSONARO The report also says China, which has a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, routinely blocks initiatives at the world body's Human Rights Council. Roth added that the European Union had been distracted by Brexit and handicapped by nationalist member states.