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On February 22, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave a speech at the 46th session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. It was the first time a Chinese government official had addressed the U.N.’s top human rights body – and the speech contained important clues about Beijing’s attempt to remake the very concept of human rights to better suit the Chinese Communist Party.
The CCP has been accused of large-scale human rights abuses since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. From the targeting of businesspeople and intellectuals in the early days of the PRC to the crackdown in Tibet in 1959 to the bloodshed of the Cultural Revolution, political persecution has been a hallmark of the CCP regime – with the 1989 military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square as perhaps the most famous example. Today, the biggest blot on Beijing’s human rights record is the ongoing campaign against Turkic Muslim groups, notably the native Uyghurs, in Chin
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An overview of the session (Photo: Vietnam Environment Administration)
Hanoi (VNA) – A Vietnamese delegation led
by Director General of the
Vietnam Environment Administration Nguyen Van Tai
attended the fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) held
virtually on February 22-23.
The overall theme of UNEA-5 is “Strengthening Actions
for Nature to Achieve the
The theme calls for strengthened action to protect and
restore nature and nature-based solutions to achieve the SDGs in its three
complementary dimensions (social, economic and environmental).
The delegates discussed the implementation of the UN
General Assembly’s Resolution 73/333 on strengthening global environmental law
and governance, and considered the organisation of a special session
Việt Nam continues to “put emphasis on the protection and promotion of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of our people, even in this most difficult of times" in the context of the global pandemic