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17 March 2021
MORNING
The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of Bulgaria, Marshall Islands, United States and Croatia.
Speaking on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of Bulgaria were China, Cuba, Ethiopia, India, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Russian Federation, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Nations Children s Fund, and Venezuela.
The following civil society organizations took the floor on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of Bulgaria: World Jewish Congress, International Lesbian and Gay Association, Advocates for Human Rights, and International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Speaking on the Universal Periodic Review outcome of the Marshall Islands were Morocco, Nepal, New Zealand, South Africa, Tunisia, United Nations Population Fund, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, India, Israel and Libya.
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Jacinda Ardern and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison walk to a press conference in Sydney in 2020. Ardern told media his policies were having a “corrosive” impact on the bilateral relationship. Community Law Centres Aotearoa, led by former Labour MP Sue Moroney and Filipa Payne, an advocate for returnees, took a petition to Parliament last year urging the Government to raise the issue during the UN’s Universal Periodic Review of Australia. Parliament’s foreign affairs, defence and trade select committee forwarded the petition to then-Foreign Minister Winston Peters. In response, Peters said New Zealand preferred to raise concerns directly with the Australian Government.
Vietnam has announced its
candidacy to join the UN Human Rights Council, basing its case mostly on the country’s
successful containment of COVID-19. However, when it comes to Vietnam’s own human rights
record, the government has done everything to curtail people’s fundamental
civil and political rights.
Vietnam has announced its bid to join the
UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the body’s 2023-2025 term.
The country’s foreign minister, Pham
Binh Minh, justified the application by saying that people’s freedom can only be
safeguarded if a country defends itself against pandemics like that of COVID-19.