Professor Dai Ruijun Gives an Oral Statement at the 45th Meeting of the UN Human Rights Council

 

 

Professor Dai Ruijun, a research fellow at CASS Institute of International Law, attended the 45th Meeting of the UN Human Rights Council as a representative of Chinese Association for International Understanding and gave an oral statement at the meeting under Agenda Item 5: human rights bodies and mechanisms on October 1, 2020. In the statement, Professor Dai pointed out that the work of Human Rights Council should be guided by the basic principle of cooperation and constructive international dialogue. In fact, cooperation and dialogue has played a significant role in promoting human rights protection all over the world. Humiliation and unilateral sanction have not only failed to protect human rights, but also intensified confrontation, increase politicization, selectivity and double standard, which deviate from the original intention of the UN human rights mechanism. Deliberate intimidation and retaliation should be condemned. She noticed an embarrassing phenomenon in the report of the Secretary General on cooperation on information in the field of human rights: among the dozens of countries named in the report for violation of human rights, none is from Western Europe or the US. This inevitably makes people suspect that the information providers have been biased and selective in collecting the information. Actually this is exactly one of the reasons for the mistrust between UN member states and UN human rights bodies in recent years. Therefore, she believed that now it is time to rectify the roles of different actors in the cause of human rights protection.