On October 6, 2022, the U.N. Human Rights Council voted to reject a draft decision that called for the Council to "debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region." Although the U.N. High Commissioner of Human Rights has found that the Chinese may have committed
"crimes against humanity" in their treatment of the Uyghurs, and the United States has described the Chinese atrocities against the Uyghurs as
"genocide", the Human Rights Council has determined such human rights abuses do not even merit discussion. The vote on the draft decision was 17 in favor (Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Montenegro, Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Republic of Korea, Somalia, United Kingdom, United States), 19 against (Bolivia, Cameroon, China, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Eritrea, Gabon, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Senegal, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela), with 11 abstentions (Argentina, Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Gambia, India, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mexico, Ukraine).