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Adjust font size: A student from Burkina Faso checks crop growth in the field at an agricultural experimental base in Quzhou county, north Chinas Hebei province, July 23, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] On September 12, we celebrate the United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation, which expresses the solidarity among the peoples and the nations of the Global South.  The groundwork for this southern solidarity was laid during the Bandung Conference, which took place 65 years ago. Attended by 29 newly ...

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The 193-member body adopted the resolution by consensus on Wednesday afternoon when it also considered other human rights issues. — File photo UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly has approved a Pakistan-sponsored resolution that reaffirms the right to self-determination for peoples subjected to colonial, foreign and alien occupation. The 193-member body adopted the resolution by consensus on Wednesday afternoon when it also considered other human rights issues. The resolution ...

UNGA unanimously adopts Pakistan-sponsored resolution on self-determination Pakistan will continue to speak up for people who are suffering under foreign occupation APP December 18, 2020 The United Nations logo is seen on a window in an empty hallway at UN headquarters in New York, US. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly stamped its approval on Wednesday on a Pakistan-sponsored resolution that reaffirms the right to self-determination for people who are subjected to c...

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...

UN passes North Korean human rights resolution for 16th consecutive year Posted : 2020-12-17 12:27 Updated : 2020-12-17 15:05 The chief of North Koreas diplomatic mission to the U.N. Kim Song, right, strongly denounced the U.N committees latest passage of a resolution calling for improvements to human rights conditions in North Korea, calling it a "cooked-up political slander." Korea Times file The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution calling for improvements to ...

UN condemns North Korea’s rights abuses in resolution | The UN General Assembly. (AP-Yonhap) The UN General Assembly on Wednesday strongly condemned North Korea’s “systematic, widespread and gross violations” of human rights in a resolution. The North slammed it as being politicized. In the resolution adopted by consensus, the assembly expressed concern over the “absence of due process and the rule of law, arbitrary executions and detention, torture and sexual and gender-based viole...

Emine Dzheppar, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Crimean Platform is open to all countries of the world that support de-occupation of peninsula 17.12.2020 13:15 For the seventh year in a row, Russian-occupied Crimea remains a painful wound on the body of the Ukrainian state. Among the latest steps, which Ukraine has made to get the issue of occupied Crimea into the international agenda and those global changes taking place on the peninsula after 2014...

Monday, 05 April 2021, 12:40 UN General Assembly adopts updated resolution on human rights situation in occupied Crimea 17.12.2020 10:17 Ukrinform The UN General Assembly adopted an updated Resolution "Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine." The vote took place at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported. The document was supported by 64 UN members. Twenty-three countries, led by the Russian Fe...

UN passes N. Korean human rights resolution for 16th consecutive year December 16, 2020 The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution calling for improvements to human rights conditions in North Korea. The resolution marks the 16th of its kind since 2005. The U.N. again condemned “in the strongest terms, the systematic, widespread and gross violations” of human rights by North Korean authorities. It also expressed “very serious concern” about ...