By Patrick Goodenough | December 17, 2020 | 4:15am EST
Tibetans protest against Chinese policies outside the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Having supported more than a dozen U.N. General Assembly resolutions condemning Israel in the past two weeks, the representatives of some of the world’s most egregious rights-abusing regimes complained on Wednesday about “country-specific” resolutions targeting some among their own ranks – Iran, Russia, North Korea, and the Assad regime – saying they violate the cherished U.N. principles of “objectivity, non-selectivity, and impartiality.”
Among the most outspoken critics during Wednesday’s plenary session in New York were the delegates from China and Cuba, governments whose widely-documented human rights abuses at home have attracted not a single General Assembly resolution this year.
By Published Dec. 18, 2020. Updated Dec. 18 2020 at 9:14 am An activist fixes names of missing people in Crimea during a protest against Russia s repression of Crimean Tatars in front of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv on Feb 25, 2020. Photo by
Volodymyr Petrov
It may be unclear who ordered the recent surge in ‘police raids, visitations and ‘prophylactic chats’ in Russian-occupied Crimea, but there is certainly no doubt as to who is being targeted and why. This is a deliberate offensive against Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians married to Crimean Tatars with a particular focus on Crimean Tatar activists who have taken part in peaceful protests in defense of political prisoners. The scale of the visitations suggests that this is not just some local police department trying to improve its statistics on ‘countering extremism’ before the end of the year but aimed at maximum
By Patrick Goodenough | December 17, 2020 | 4:15am EST
Tibetans protest against Chinese policies outside the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) – Having supported more than a dozen U.N. General Assembly resolutions condemning Israel in the past two weeks, the representatives of some of the world’s most egregious rights-abusing regimes complained on Wednesday about “country-specific” resolutions targeting some among their own ranks – Iran, Russia, North Korea, and the Assad regime – saying they violate the cherished U.N. principles of “objectivity, non-selectivity, and impartiality.”
Among the most outspoken critics during Wednesday’s plenary session in New York were the delegates from China and Cuba, governments whose widely-documented human rights abuses at home have attracted not a single General Assembly resolution this year.
Emine Dzheppar, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine
Crimean Platform is open to all countries of the world that support de-occupation of peninsula 17.12.2020 13:15
For the seventh year in a row, Russian-occupied Crimea remains a painful wound on the body of the Ukrainian state. Among the latest steps, which Ukraine has made to get the issue of occupied Crimea into the international agenda and those global changes taking place on the peninsula after 2014, is the creation of a Crimean Platform, which will be represented at the next year s Summit of Heads of States and International Organizations.
The main driver and active advocate of the idea of ââthe Crimean Platform, First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzheppar told Ukrinform in an interview about those who had already confirmed the participation in this conference, about the process of its development and expected results.
By Published Dec. 15, 2020 at 11:12 am This picture taken on July 23, 2004, shows a visitor looking at vintage bottles displayed at the museum of the Massandra winery, not far from Yalta. Photo by
AFP
The world-renowned Massandra winery in Russian-occupied Crimea was ‘sold’ on Dec. 14 to a subsidiary of the Rossiya Bank owned by billionaire Yury Kovalchuk, a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is the second famous Crimean winery that Kovalchuk has taken part in plundering. Such ‘purchases’ are legally invalid since Russia has no right to steal stolen assets, however, the damage done to essentially priceless Ukrainian wine cellars and vineyards may well be irreparable.