{"id":48197,"date":"2015-07-16T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=48197 "},"modified":"2015-07-16T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T22:50:00","slug":"48197-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=48197","title":{"rendered":"US Pushes for NGO\\’s Acceptance Despite China Lobbying"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE – United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power addresses members of the U.N. Security Council.<\/div>
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UNITED NATIONS —The United States has launched a campaign to get U.N. accreditation for the non-profit organization Freedom Now, which works to free prisoners of conscience around the world, but the effort is facing opposition, especially from China.<\/div>
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Last month, the U.N. committee that accredits non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, rejected the Washington-based group’s application. But the United States has decided to take the issue to the committee’s parent body, the 54-member Economic and Social Council known as ECOSOC, which is scheduled to vote on July 20.<\/div>
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A simple majority vote is needed for the group’s accreditation for special U.N. consultative status.<\/div>
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Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the honorary chair of Freedom Now, has written to every council member urging a “yes” vote, “not just because they meet the requirements … but also because the mission and activities of this organization contribute greatly to the spirit and operation of the U.N.”<\/div>
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Freedom Now takes on cases of individuals who have not advocated or used violence and have been detained for who they are or what they believe.<\/div>
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One of its campaigns is to free 2010 Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power” in China. China’s U.N. mission had no comment when asked about its lobbying against accrediting the group.<\/div>
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U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power testified at a congressional hearing last month that the NGO committee which rejected Freedom Now “is stacked with a group of countries who don’t themselves tolerate NGOs in their own countries … but we’re not giving up.”<\/div>
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Among the countries that voted against Freedom Now in the NGO committee were China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Sudan, Iran, Nicaragua and Azerbaijan. Some are targets of Freedom Now campaigns.<\/div>
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Power stressed in a statement to The Associated Press that the organization’s work “fills a vital need internationally, giving political prisoners a fighting chance when the odds against them are stacked as high as the walls that imprison them.”<\/div>
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Freedom Now’s executive director, Maran Turner, said Wednesday that she was “greatly confounded” by the opposition and said her group operates without political bias.<\/div>
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