UN chief's silence on China rights draws critics (Sandi)

This whole episode started when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiao Bo who is known as one of China's leading dissidents. The reason why the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to him is because the Nobel Foundation recognises his effort in pushing for both China's own constitution and human rights in China in a non-violent way.However, China condemns this action, saying that it would be an insult to the Nobel principles and perceived this to be a threat against it.Currently, he is serving an 11-year prison sentence for "subverting state power" which comes after calling for a political change in China and lots of human rights organisations and western countries are calling for his release.
Being an big activist of human rights, United Nations have the obligations to discuss with this problem with China. A great opportunity came but the chief of United Nations, Mr Ban Ki Moon apparently did not do so, just a few days after demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, another Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is currently detained in Myanmar. Observers are largely disappointed by the lack of effort coming from Mr Ban Ki Moon.
I do agree to that Mr Ban Ki-Moon's silence about the detain of Liu Xiao Bo has got to do with his re-election next year. China, one of the five veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council, has the power to kick Mr Ban Ki-Moon out of his position. But even so, I feel that Mr. Ban Ki-Moon should still push and stand firm for the human rights principles regardless of what country is he facing with or else we can see a disparity of how he is handling with different countries and its not fair.
I also agree that the way China handles this matter definitely would have an impact to the rest of the countries and that now it would be more difficult to impose universal human rights. The importance of promoting universal rights is because that no one is different from the rest and that everyone should be treated equally.

Source: http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20101102/tap-china-rights-un-ban-8d4ea94.html