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China Steps Up Intimidation Campaign Ahead of UN Event A Chinese police officer guards the road near a “reeducation” camp in Yining, Xinjiang, September 4, 2018.  © 2018 Thomas Peter/Reuters (New York) – United Nations members should press China’s government to end its crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims at a high-level event on human rights abuses in Xinjiang, Human Rights Watch said today. Delegations should urge senio...

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Why is Japan cautious about taking stance on alleged Uyghur human rights abuse by China? March 17, 2021 (Mainichi Japan) Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi is seen at the prime ministers office on Dec. 21, 2020. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi) TOKYO -- While the U.S. government has officially deemed Chinas oppression of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region a "genocide," the Japanese government has taken a cautious stance toward making such a declaration. The question of whether the Chinese g...

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbins Regular Press Conference on February 3, 2021 2021/02/03 China has officially joined COVAX and is in close communication with the WHO and other sponsors of the plan, working together to make vaccines a global public good and make them more accessible and affordable to developing countries. We attach great importance to Director-General Tedros call to vaccinate priority populations in all nations within the first 100 days of this year. We also attach gre...

Marcia Ross, Girl Rising CEO Christina Lowery, feminist activist Azadeh (Azi) Khalili, and two young human rights activists who are inspired by NASRIN’s story. NASRIN, an award-winning documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Olivia Coleman and with music by Tony Award-winning composers Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo, tells the story of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the Iranian human rights lawyer who has bravely led ongoing battles for the righ...

The United Nations logo is displayed on a door at U.N. headquarters in New York February 26, 2011. | (Photo: Reuters/Joshua Lott) Countries that have engaged in religious freedom violations, such as China, Russia, Pakistan and Cuba, have been elected by the United Nations General Assembly to the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council, drawing criticism from human rights groups.  On Tuesday, the 193-member General Assembly elected 15 countries to serve on its premier body for protecting human righ...

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12/31/2020 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/31/2020 19:02 Approving $3.21 Billion Budget, General Assembly Adopts 25 Resolutions, Decisions from its Main Committees, Concluding Main Part of Seventy-Fifth Session Concluding the main part of its seventy-fifth session, the General Assembly approved $3.21 billion for 2021 and adopted 22 resolutions and 3 decisions recommended by its Main Committees. Adopting a range of drafts recommended by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and...

December 28, 2020 Share In November, the General Assembly’s Third Committee, which deals with social, humanitarian and cultural issues, had recommended the text of the resolution On December 16, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution reaffirming the right to self-determination for peoples subjected to colonial, foreign and alien occupation. The 193-member body adopted the resolution by consensus and also considered other human rights issues. The resolution – “Uni...

By Patrick Goodenough | December 17, 2020 | 4:15am EST Tibetans protest against Chinese policies outside the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images) (CNSNews.com) – Having supported more than a dozen U.N. General Assembly resolutions condemning Israel in the past two weeks, the representatives of some of the world’s most egregious rights-abusing regimes complained on Wednesday about “country-specific” reso...