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Stephen Biko’s death became a symbol for the debate at the United Nations on expanding the global fight against torture. His stature as a well-known civil society activist, the brutality of the murder and the apartheid regime’s attempted cover-up meant that Biko came to symbolise countless...

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - South Africa and the European Union (EU) have agreed to collaborate in organizing events and expert level exchanges on a number of specific issues, including gender equality, business and human rights and the right to development. The agreement was reached at the 7th EU-South Africa Structured Dialogue Forum on Human Rights which

The report on human rights conditions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, released by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights last week, is nothing but an "illegal document" and "a perverse product of the United States and some other Western forces' coercive diplomacy", as the spokesperson for the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations said.

Former Nigerian ambassador to Sierra Leone, Ambassador Gladys Modupe Quist-Adebiyi served four Nigerian Presidents as Chief of Protocols in the Federal

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has recently delivered a speech at Asia Society outlining the US administrations approach to China. With carefully calibrated language, he sought to promote the "China threat" narrative, interfere in Chinas internal affairs, and smear Chinas domestic and foreign policy, all in an attempt at full-blown containment and suppression of China.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Iranian journalist and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi’s violent arrest during an event near Tehran on 16 November to commemorate the more than 1,000 victims of a bloody crackdown on protests in November 2019.

The Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries is preparing a draft law on phytosanitation and the protection of plants in order to strengthen biosecurity measures on imported agricultural products and increase confidence of Cambodia’s trading partners.

The Rohingya and Afghan refugee issues are also currently important international issues. More than 1.1 million Rohingyas have taken refuge in Bangladesh since August 2017 due to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. About 50,000 newborn Rohingya children are added to it every year. Earlier, the Rohingya had been subjected to systematic discrimination, deprivation of the right to vote, and regular targeting of violence in Myanmar for decades.

The United States government is "upgrading and reshaping" its production line of rumors about the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, in its latest effort to create the pretext for a new round of sanctions and pressure on China.

The Rohingya and Afghan refugee issues are also currently important international issues. More than 1.1 million Rohingyas have taken refuge in Bangladesh