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The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, at the UNGA78 session, criticized what he considers to be the deterioration of the human rights situation in Afgha

The Chargé d'Affaires of the Afghanistan Permanent Mission to the UN, Naseer Ahmad Faiq, expressed his concerns regarding the situation of Afghan immigrants in neighboring countries.

The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, at the UNGA78 session, criticized what he considers to be the deterioration of the human rights situation in Afgha

The Chargé d'Affaires of the Afghanistan Permanent Mission to the UN, Naseer Ahmad Faiq, expressed his concerns regarding the situation of Afghan immigrants in neighboring countries.

What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 2023, and if you place what’s happening in the wider historical context of colonialism and anticolonial resistance, what’s most remarkable is that anyone in 2023 should be still surprised that conditions of absolute violence, domination, suffocation, and control produce appalling violence in turn.

Click to expand Image Members of the Muslim Uyghur minority present pictures of their relatives detained in China during a press conference in Istanbul, May 10, 2022. Turkey's Uyghur community urged United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to probe so-called re-education camps. 2022 Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images Fifty-one United Nations member countries have issued a joint declaration condemning the Chinese government's crimes against humanity committed against U...

The European Union is working on a draft resolution on North Korea's human rights to be submitted to a United Nations committee, its delegation to South Korea said Tuesday, amid growing concerns over China's forced repatriation of North Korean defectors. The draft resolution, usually led by the EU, is submitted to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly dealing with human rights and social affairs, a...

Myanmar: UN expert urges Member States to strengthen “growing trend” of coordinated action as human rights and humanitarian crisis deepens NEW YORK (24 October 2023) – A growing trend of coordinated action by Member States, including sanctions targeting ...

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Fifty-one United Nations member countries have issued a joint declaration condemning the Chinese government’s crimes against humanity committed against Uyghurs and other Turkic communities, and calling on Beijing to end its systematic human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.