ABSTRACT
In contrast to the many non-binding resolutions that China voted in the affirmative on in the UNGA, this chapter focuses on how the Chinese government acted on human rights issues in Tibet, Xinjiang, Darfur, and with a prominent dissident, Liu Xiaobo. The cases of Tibet and Xinjiang, which involve oppressed minority groups, offer a stark contrast to China’s voting in the affirmative on comparable issues in the UNGA. The case of Liu Xiaobo offers the opportunity to compare China’s voting in the UNGA on election issues with its domestic practice and treatment of activists. For these four events, international actors carried out naming and shaming campaigns to change Chinese government behavior on human rights issues. Regarding the three domestic cases, such naming and shaming campaigns were utterly ineffective in bringing about any positive change on human rights.
