An investigation reveals that numerous NGOs operating at the United Nations in Geneva have concealed connections to the Chinese government. These Beijing-aligned organizations have infiltrated U.N. sessions, misrepresenting China's human rights record and attempting to drown out authentic testimony from legitimate NGOs regarding human rights abuses. They reportedly monitor and intimidate activists planning to speak out about violations. This manipulation of the U.N. Human Rights Council is described as a significant threat to the core mission of human rights advocacy within the U.N., according to diplomatic sources and former officials.
Hundreds of human rights organizations make their way to the United Nations' offices in Geneva each year to call attention to the plight of the world's most vulnerable populations, including victims of war, famine, false imprisonment or torture.
Beijing-backed groups crowd into U.N. sessions on human rights to present glowing accounts from China, which are at odds with credible reports of repression, according to interviews and an examination of public records.
The U.S. government's officials and diplomats highlighted that these organizations are being used to monitor and intimidate those planning to testify about alleged abuses.
Michèle Taylor, a former U.S. ambassador, described China's deployment of organizations posing as NGOs as a growing threat to the core U.N. human rights mission, calling it 'corrosive, dishonest, and subversive.'
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