Thawing diplomatic relations with China shouldn’t mean ‘taking a backwards step with Beijing’, Human Rights Watch says
Sophie McNeill, an Australian researcher at Human Rights Watch, welcomed the government’s early engagement with the region but called for a continued focus on human rights.
“It is so critical that the new Albanese government enact targeted sanctions on human rights abusers as soon as possible, to demonstrate that Australia will hold countries violating human rights to account,” she said. The Human Rights Watch letter encourages the Albanese government to call on the UN high commissioner for human rights to immediatelyIn addition to imposing sanctions against Myanmar military figures, the new government should pursue human rights issues with other south-east Asian countries including Indonesia.
The push for sanctions against Chinese officials has been backed by Justin Bassi, who was chief of staff to the former foreign affairs minister Marise Payne.
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