China accused of bribing UN officials to serve its interests
Evidence submitted by former employee of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and whistleblower Emma Reilly has revealed that the Chinese government has been receiving "dangerous favours" from the OHCHR.
The Chinese government has been benefiting from “dangerous favours” from the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as per the evidence submitted by former OHCHR employee and whistleblower Emma Reilly.
The evidence indicates China’s attempts to manipulate the UN to advance its national interests. The report alleges that during the twoyear negotiation on sustainable development goals, China paid bribes to General Assembly Presidents who had significant influence over the final texts. Additionally, according to the whistleblower, China stipulated that funds provided to the UN should not be used in countries with diplomatic ties to Taiwan.
“The Chief of the Human Rights Council Branch in OHCHR, a French national, was secretly providing the PRC with advance information on which human rights activists planned to attend the Human Rights Council," she said in her written evidence.
It was also revealed that both the reports of WHO and the United Nations
Environment Programme on the origins of COVID-19 were altered to reduce any references that point to the possibility of a laboratory leak. A submission from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) that has been included in the evidence claims that China is trying to “shape the multilateral system to align more with a state-centric, authoritarian world view."