China has locked up more than a million members of its Uyghur, Kazakh and other Muslim minorities in what critics describe as a campaign to obliterate their distinct cultural identities.
Assembly spokeswoman Paulina Kubiak said on Thursday that Czech Republic was the only candidate for the seat on the 47-member Human Rights Council.
Jaishankar said while the issue of human rights was not discussed during the current meeting, it has come up in the past.
India has previously rejected criticism by foreign governments and human rights groups on allegations that civil liberties have eroded in the country.
“But I ask, what about Modi in India? How are we promoting a free and open region by supporting Modi? So, I ask you, why has the Biden administration been so reluctant to criticize Modi's government on human rights?” Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar asked.
The UN General Assembly has delivered Russia a crushing diplomatic blow suspending it from the Human Rights Council, but India abstained on the action keeping up its neutral stance. Thursday's was India's eighth abstention on actions at the UN relating to Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities have urged people living in the Donbas to evacuate now, ahead of an impending Russian offensive, while there is still time.
The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine, which the United States and Ukraine have called tantamount to war crimes.
The Human Rights Day 2021 theme is "Equality, Reducing inequalities, advancing human rights." Education is a fundamental human right of every woman, man and child.
UN human rights body expressed deep concern over the arrest of Khurram Parvez and even called for "prompt, thorough, transparent" investigations" into the recent incidents of killings of civilians in J&K.
The 76th UN General Assembly held elections on Thursday for 18 new members of the UN Human Rights Council who will serve for a period of three years, starting in January 2022.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed those who engage in "selective interpretation" of human rights and look at its violation with an eye on political loss and gains, saying such conduct is harmful to these rights as well as democracy. Speaking at the 28th foundation day of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Modi said similar incidents are seen differently by some people as they describe human rights keeping their own interests in mind.
Slamming those who engage in "selective interpretation" of human rights with an eye on political gains and loss, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that such conduct harms human rights as well as democracy.
As per a Prime Minister's office release, NHRC was set up under the Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 on October 12, 1993, for the promotion and protection of human rights.
An activist said that not only the PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan are the victims of Pakistan's atrocities but the Baloch and Sindhis are facing genocide at the hands of the Pakistani establishment.
At the 48th session of the human rights council, India said Pakistan has been globally recognised as a country openly supporting, training, financing and arming terrorists including UN proscribed terrorists as a matter of state policy.
Sandhu said India’s approach to global promotion and protection of human rights is based on "our own experience as a pluralistic and inclusive society and vibrant democracy."
A bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao noted that former apex court judge Justice Arun Mishra has been appointed as chairperson of National Human Rights Commission.
"They should ensure to protect human rights of their citizens and give them a just and honourable govt under the Islamic rules."
According to the UN, Unicef is appealing for about 200 million dollars to help about 10 million Afghan children who are in need of humanitarian aid.
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