NGOs urged to advance right to development By CHENG SI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-06-29 09:00 Share CLOSE A trainer shows volunteers how to dress hair at an NGO incubator park in Jinan, Shandong province. [Photo Provided To China Daily]
NGOs have become a strong force in channeling greater efforts to push forward the right to development, experts and representatives from international NGOs said on Monday.
Speaking at an online event running parallel to the ongoing 47th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, they also urged NGOs worldwide to provide assistance to their governments and multiply the effect and impact of development.
Bulgaria’s Sofia University has dismissed controversial professor Mihail Mirchev as a visiting lecturer after a series of lectures he gave led to allegations of insults and hate speech on racial and ethnic grounds.
In a lengthy statement, Sofia University said that following the complaint by the student society, it had received numerous letters in support of the call for Mirchev’s dismissal, as well as letters in his defence, the latter denying that the lectures contained hate speech, discriminatory and hate speech.
As The Sofia Globe reported on November 16, some of these defences, coming from far-right groupings, referring to the “dictates of minorities”.