The UK government has expressed concern that too few people from the black, Asian, and other minority ethnic communities are being recognized for their contributions to society. A recent census found that people identifying as black or Asian comprise 12.8 percent of the UK population, a community that received 9.3 percent of the honors handed out on Jan 1. That number was down from the 10 percent on the honors list prepared six months earlier.
The UK's Princess Anne was invited as a distinguished guest.
The United States boycotted the Human Rights Council for three years under President George W. Bush before rejoining under Barack Obama in 2009.
The United States has pressured the UK to ban Huawei participation in 5G upgrades, due to what the US claims are security concerns. The UK government was expected to reach a determination on whether it would join the Huawei boycott last month but the Conservative Party leadership contest delayed the decision.
The US government on Aug. 7 re-imposed sanctions on Iran on non-energy areas, and will slap the remaining sanctions on Nov. 5 that concentrate on such areas as energy, shipping and ports.
The US has also violated other nations' sovereignty, intimidating some small Caribbean and Pacific Island nations not to switch "diplomatic ties" from Taiwan to the Chinese mainland despite the fact that Washington recognizes Beijing as the sole legal government of China.
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The US government has flown around 800 of its citizens out of Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus.
The UN Human Rights Council reviews its members' human rights every four to five years in a process that is officially called the Universal Periodic Reviews. The review was chaired by Coly Seck, permanent representative of Senegal to the UN Office in Geneva, Switzerland, and also president of the UN Human Rights Council.
The US media have insisted on describing the militants in Hong Kong as "pro-democracy activists" even though its reporters also describe seeing the rebels producing "hundreds or thousands of bombs" and a radical dousing a man in flammable liquid and setting him alight.
The United States has called for transparency in the investigation of Khashoggi’s death and revoked the US visas of some Saudis over the incident.