New Zealand accuses China of human rights abuses but not genocide

The New Zealand Parliament unanimously passed a motion that called the treatment of Uygurs in China’s Xinjiang region “severe human rights abuses”, which was watered down from a previous version that included the term “genocide”.

Brought by the opposition Act party, the motion could not have been debated in Parliament without the support of the ruling Labour Party, which objected to the term “genocide”.