{"id":96677,"date":"2020-10-14T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T03:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=96677"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:05:43","slug":"chin-cuba-russia-elected-to-un-human-rights-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=96677","title":{"rendered":"China, Cuba, Russia elected to UN Human Rights Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The UN General Assembly voted Tuesday to elect a new tranche of 15 Human Rights Council (HRC) members, including China, Cuba and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anadolu Agency (AA) reported that the&nbsp;trio of countries won seats over objections from critics who challenge their rights records.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said Cuba and Russia were shoe-ins for the spots after running without a sufficient number of challengers in the regional groups established by the UN to open the possibility that they would not claim victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China, however, faced stiff competition in the Asia-Pacific region where six nations were competing for five spots. China secured&nbsp;the last of the five spots as Saudi Arabia failed to cross the needed vote threshold.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final results in that contest were Pakistan with 169 votes, Uzbekistan at 169, Nepal with 150, and 139 for China. Saudi Arabia received just 90 votes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All UN member states are eligible to sit on the HRC where terms last for three years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The UN General Assembly voted Tuesday to elect a new tranche of 15 Human Rights Council (HRC) members, including China, Cuba and Russia. Anadolu Agency (AA) reported that the&nbsp;trio of countries won seats over objections from critics who challenge their rights records.&nbsp; It said Cuba and Russia were shoe-ins for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":96704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,215,209,217,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}