Security Council: Tigray Region, 2 July 2021
Format
SECURITY COUNCIL 8812TH MEETING (PM)
Note: Owing to the liquidity crisis and the current COVID-19 pandemic impacting our Organization, only a partial summary of statements made in today’s meeting of the Security Council is available at this time. The complete summary will be issued later as Press Release SC/14572.
Briefings
ROSEMARY DICARLO, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, said Ethiopia is at a critical juncture. Issues plaguing the country must be addressed in a comprehensive and sustainable way, she said, stressing: “The consequences of not doing so could be disastrous.” Reviewing the latest developments, she pointed to the unilateral ceasefire in Tigray, announced on 28 June by the federal Government, and the withdrawal of the Ethiopian National Defence Force and the Provisional Tigray Administration from Tigray’s capital, Mekelle. The Tigray Defence Force, meanwhile, entered several
Journalist groups and organizations appear before the IACHR to denounce stigmatization by the Mexican state
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador president of Mexico speaks during the daily briefing at Palacio Nacional (Photo by Hector Vivas/Getty Images) National and international organizations and groups demand that the Mexican state recognize the work of the press and of human rights defenders and that it put a stop to stigmatizing narratives and strengthen the protection mechanism.
Twenty national and international organizations took part in the thematic
th Period of Sessions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
The IACHR and OHCHR proposed opportunities for dialogue between the Mexican state and civil society, but no explicit commitment was made on the part of the authorities.
Daily Times FO says propaganda war aimed at deflecting from Lahore blast evidence
July 3, 2021
The Foreign Office on Friday dismissed as patently false allegations by India’s External Affairs Ministry about a drone flying over the Indian High Commission in Islamabad as patently false.
The statement came after the Indian foreign ministry claimed that a drone was sighted over the premises of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad on June 26.
“This has been taken up officially with Pakistan. We expect Pakistan to investigate the incident and prevent recurrence of such breach of security,” NDTV quoted the Indian Ministry of External Affairs as saying in a statement.
Situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/47/55)
Format Agenda item 4
Summary
Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 45/20, in the present report, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights details recent developments in the human rights situation, with a particular focus on civic space and the rule of law, and how they relate to the implementation of previously issued recommendations.
I. Introduction
1. The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 45/20, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a comprehensive written report on the situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela containing a detailed assessment of the implementation of the recommendations made in her previous reports and to present it to the Council at its forty-seventh session.
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