The work of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is up against serious challenges at present, Ambassador Chen Xu, China's permanent representative to the UN Office at Geneva, said on Friday.

Delivering a joint statement on behalf of a group of like-minded countries on the promotion of international equity and justice in the field of human rights at the UNHRC's ongoing 48th session, Chen said that the principles of universality, impartiality, objectivity and non-selectivity are at stake.