3 March 2021
Special Rapporteur on the Environment Draws Attention to the Worsening Water Crisis
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, and started an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment. It also concluded its interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the enjoyment of human rights of persons with albinism.
Karima Bennoune, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, warned that the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a global “cultural catastrophe” with severe, long-lasting consequences for human rights if effective action was not taken immediately to guarantee cultural rights. Culture sectors had been among those hardest hit. The economic crisis accompanying the pandemic had had disproportionate effects on cultural sectors and those who worked in them. There had been gendered repercussions of
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin s Regular Press Conference on March 3, 2021
2021/03/03
Bloomberg: According to Gallup poll results, favorable views of China in the United States hit a new low. Does the foreign ministry have any comment on the negative views of China?
Wang Wenbin: I ve noticed that lately there have been many polls on China-US relations. Some results suggest that a considerable number of respondents in the United States believe people-to-people and cultural exchanges with China should be maintained and 72 percent support active U.S. cooperation with China on climate governance.
I d like to stress that the Chinese and American people always have friendly sentiments towards each other. This underpinning friendship brings vitality to bilateral relations. However, the previous U.S. administration and anti-China forces in the United States, driven by ideological bias and selfish political gains, flagrantly smeared and maligned China, provoked confrontation an
Chinese and US legislators exchanged views on promoting bilateral friendship and mutual trust and expressed hopes for a stable and healthy China-US relationship to jointly cope with global challenges in a forum held via video link on Tuesday.
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