NEW YORK - Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations Bob Rae is calling on the UN's human rights chief to publish a long-anticipated report on China's alleged human rights violations against its Muslim minority Uyghur population in Xinjiang.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Thursday the commission is "trying very hard" to fulfil her pledge to publish the report before her term ends on August 31. She said that she is under "tremendous pressure" from all sides.

Bachelet told reporters that she needed time to integrate new information from her May visit to China's Xinjiang region and to review Beijing's input on the unpublished report. "There's no excuse for not getting it out.

The only person that controls that is her. It's her report," Rae told host Vassy Kapelos on CBC News Network's Power & Politics Thursday. "I don't think there's any question at all that the Chinese have been making very strong representations but I don't know under what process a human rights commission would say we're going to allow the perpetrators of this injustice — of this genocide — we're going to allow them to comment and see the report and review it and then get their feedback on it before we publish the report."