UN chief calls for vaccine equity at UN rights body meeting Xinhua | Updated: 2021-02-23 09:07 Photo taken on Feb 22, 2021 in Brussels, Belgium shows a screen displaying United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivering a video speech at the high-level meeting of the 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held in Geneva, Switzerland. [Photo/Xinhua]
GENEVA - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday stressed that COVID-19 vaccines must be a global public good, accessible and affordable for all. Vaccine equity affirms human rights, vaccine nationalism denies it, he said at the opening of the 46th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council.
India's External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has pointed out how terrorism is a "crime against humanity" at the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling for a "clear realization" in the body that "terrorism can never be justified".
Speaking at the high-level segment of the body, EAM said, "terrorism continues to be one of the gravest threats to humankind. It is a crime against humanity and violates the most fundamental human right - namely ‘the Right to Life’".
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday criticised countries that are using the pandemic to justify cracking down on dissent, reining in the media and suppressing criticism.Speaking at the opening of.
China on Monday urged all countries to embrace a human rights philosophy that centers on the people and uphold both universality and particularity of human rights.
Posted on February 22nd, 2021
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island
UK hindered war crimes investigation – Naseby tells Bachelet
Leader of Sri Lanka Core Group, the UK, has suppressed official documents that could have helped the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to establish the truth pertaining to war crimes allegations, including the number of deaths on the Vanni east front in 2009, Lord Naseby has said in a letter addressed to Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Lord Naseby has raised the issue in his capacity as the President of the All Party British-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Group. The Conservative politician was responding to the controversial ‘Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka’ that recommended punitive measures against Sri Lanka, ahead of the 46th sessions of the UNHRC due to commence today (22).