Yesterday, the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Commission, by a vote of 17-19 (with 11 abstentions), voted to block any debate and discussion of China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in Xinjiang province. This comes after the U.N.’s own human rights office – the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights – concluded after a years-long study that China may have committed numerous, serious crimes against humanity. Despite that, 36 nations succumbed to China’s pressure campaign and concluded that the largest scale scale denial of human rights of the 21st century should be ignored by the U.N.’s main human rights enforcement body.