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Canada urged to reveal truth over abuses of indigenous people China Daily | Updated: 2021-06-30 07:45 A child's red dress hangs on a stake near the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School after the remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada June 6, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] China's Ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jun has called on the Canadian government to fulfill its responsibility to let the world know the truth about violations of indigenous people's rights in Canada. ...

(Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The head of the World Uyghur Congress was interrupted repeatedly by a Chinese diplomat during a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council yesterday. As Dolkun Isa, the group’s president, addressed a session involving the U.N.’s adviser on genocide, a Chinese representative interrupted him mid sentence to claim that “we always put the well-being of the Chinese people at the heart of our work” and defend Beijing’s policies in the Xinjiang region, where the Chinese Communist Party is carrying out crimes against humanity and genocide. WUC President @Dolkun_Isa spo...

The election of Maldives’ Foreign Minister, Abdulla Shahid, as the 76th President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) could not have come at a better time for the island nation. Shahid commences his year-long term in September, and his elevation, it is hoped, can change the archipelago-nation’s standing in the international community, particularly as the global body is otherwise considered to be a club for rich and powerful nations, of...

It is this kind of support that neighbours expect from India, given their own inherent inadequacies in terms of ‘size’ in every respect.

Maldives had reportedly announced Minister Shahid’s candidacy as early as 2018, not long after President Solih’s election