Sri Lanka: ‘Religious Disharmony’ Order Threatens Minorities..! Withdraw Expansion of Notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act..! -HRW
(Lanka-e-News -17.March.2021, 4.15PM) Sri Lanka’s government should immediately withdraw an order that allows two-years of detention without trial for causing “religious, racial, or communal disharmony,” Human Rights Watch said today. The Prevention of Terrorism (De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology) Regulations No. 01 of 2021, issued on March 9, 2021, expands the draconian and abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).
The regulation will allow the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to more easily target religious and racial minorities, in violation of their basic rights. The United Nations Human Rights Council is considering a resolution to strengthen monitoring and promote accountability for human rights violations in Sri Lanka, after the UN high commissioner on human rights identified “clear early
Urdu Bulletin: Farmers protest, rise in COVID-19 cases reported widely ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 12:08 IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): Various Urdu newspapers in their Wednesday edition reported the farmers appeal to United Nations Human Rights Council to interfere in the matter. Most publications also carried the news of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country.
Inquilab: The newspaper reported that agitating farmers have appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Council to interfere in the matter.
It also reported that according to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Sachiz Waze himself driving the Innova car which was found near the Ambani residence in Mumbai.
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Brett D. Schaefer is the Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs at Heritage s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. A delegate from Burkina Faso delivers a speech at the United Nations Human Rights Council on June 19, 2020 in Geneva. FABRICE COFFRINI / POOL / AFP / Getty Images
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Posted on March 17, 2021.
Less than two months after Joe Biden’s administration took office, a key phrase has repeatedly emerged, “America is back.” People have seen that the Biden administration has partially reversed the Trump administration’s resistance to multilateral institutions, and successively announced that the United States had rejoined the Paris Agreement, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations Human Rights Council. The return of the U.S. to multilateralism is welcomed, and the international community also expects the U.S. to assume its due responsibility in responding to the global public health management crisis and global environmental issues, opposing contemporary forms of racism and tackling other issues. Of course, along with America’s return there comes American human rights diplomacy. Recently, the U.S. has repeated its old tricks, utilizing high-density tricks of human rights diplomacy. Currently in the 46th session of the U.N. Human Ri