The human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region were exposed in a report issued by Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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China’s discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a long-awaited report Wednesday, which cited “serious” rights violations and patterns of torture in recent years.
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Laws that ban abortion or severely restrict the procedure have gone into effect in about a dozen states after the US Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to abortion on June 24.
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Ukrainian MFA disappointed by UN Humanitarian Coordinator’s Office’s lack of a clear position on the rocket shelling of Russia at the Chaplyne train station.
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The UN has stated that it is “very concerned” about Russian-backed authorities’ plans to hold trials in Mariupol for Ukrainian soldiers who have been captured. UN ‘very concerned’ over planned trials of captured Ukrainian POWs in Mariupol The UN has stated that it is “very concerned” about Russian-backed authorities’ plans to hold trials in Mariupol for Ukrainian soldiers who have been captured, stating that such a procedure may constitute a war crime in and of itself. According to the UN rights office’s Ravina Shamdasani, pro-Russian officials appear to be putting…
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India abstained on the US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution in February that deplored “in the strongest terms” Russia’s “aggression” against Ukraine, with New Delhi saying dialogue is the only answer to settling differences and disputes. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday that India abstained from voting on the United Nations resolution deploring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the country buys military equipment from Moscow. India abstained on the US-sponsored UN Security Council resolution in February that deplored “in the strongest terms” Russia’s “aggression” against Ukraine, with New…
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