Canada’s UN Envoy Raises China’s Persecution of Falun Gong During UN Review

Canada’s United Nations representative has criticized China for its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners along with its other various human rights abuses during a recent human rights record peer review session. Leslie Norton, Canada’s ambassador and permanent representative of Canada to the United Nations in Geneva, put forth several recommendations regarding human rights in China. Among them was the call for the communist regime to “end all forms of enforced disappearances, targeting human rights defenders, ethnic minorities, and Falun Gong practitioners.” Ms. Norton made the comments on Jan. 23, during the China review session at the U.N. Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is a mechanism of the Human Rights Council, mandating each U.N. member state to undergo a peer review of its human rights records roughly every four years....