واشنطن تدعو خبراء من الأمم المتحدة إلى التحقيق في العنصرية في الولايات المتحدة
طباعة واشنطن - أ ف ب دعت إدارة الرئيس جو بايدن خبراء من الأمم المتحدة إلى دراسة سجل الولايات المتحدة في مجال العنصرية ضد الأميركيين من أصل إفريقي، معتمدة بذلك موقفا مخالفا للرئيس السابق دونالد ترامب.
ورحب وزير الخارجية الأميركي أنتوني بلينكن بتشكيل مجلس حقوق الإنسان التابع للأمم المتحدة مجموعة خبراء مكلفة النظر في أعمال العنف التي ترتكبها الشرطة ضد أشخاص أصولهم إفريقية في العالم.
وقال بلينكن في بيان يجب على الأمم المسؤ
Meeting examines protection of women s rights By LI HONGYANG | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-07-15 08:36 Share LIANG LUWEN/FOR CHINA DAILY
Scholars from universities and representatives from international women s organizations shared details of women s rights protection cases on Wednesday.
Speaking at a side meeting of the ongoing 47th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, they appealed for the protection of women s rights and the promotion of high-quality development.
Nada Al-Nashif, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: Women and girls continue to have unequal access to economic and educational opportunities. They are denied access to the decision-making within the family and community.
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Representatives of the Action Alliance to Redress 1219 present former U.S. Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, co-chair of the IRF Summit 2021, with two books about human rights, justice, and religious freedom. (Action Alliance to Redress 1219)
The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit is being held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington D.C. on July 13–15, and over 1,000 representatives from government agencies and civil society organizations are attending the event in person while over ten thousand people are participating virtually, being the largest and most important religious freedom event of the year. As a Summit partner, the Action Alliance to Redress 1219 hosted a workshop titled A Question of Justice: The Tai Ji Men Case and launched two new books about safeguarding human rights, justice, and religious freedom, documenting the Tai Ji Men case, a case of violation of religious freedom and human rights in Taiwan, and ove
Choking back her tears, Llore Pasco still wonders if she did enough to protect her sons, Crisanto, a father of four and a security guard, and Juan Carlos, a bachelor and part-time electric bill collector and former janitor.
It has been more than four years since the brothers went missing from their village in Metro Manila on May 11, 2017. That morning, Crisanto had left early to apply for a security guard’s licence, never to return. By noon, Llore’s family started to grow anxious when they realised Juan Carlos was not to be found either.
Their worry turned to shock and grief after learning on television the following day that the brothers had died. Reports said they were killed in a police operation following an alleged robbery not far from where they lived in Quezon City, part of the Philippines’ sprawling capital.