The United Kingdom has voted against a resolution from the United Nations Human Rights Council to pay reparations from the trans-Atlantic slave trade. On Friday, a resolution titled “From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” was tabled before a 47-strong U.N. Human Rights Council…
UN Votes Down Debate on Uyghurs After CCP Lobbying
October 6, 2022
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The United Nations rejected a move to debate China’s ongoing human rights abuses—a rare move that could signal U.S. influence abroad is waning. Leaders from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada called for a debate on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) suppression of the Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang after a U.N. report…
Joly Pushing for Haiti Plan at Americas Summit as Countries Ponder Venezuela Ties
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is trying to help broker a plan to get Haiti on its feet after a gas shortage that has sparked violence. “We need to be in crisis-management mode,” she said in a Wednesday interview from Peru. “There is no security in Haiti right now; gangs have taken control of all…
What Is Man That Science Art Mindful of Him?
Commentary The past few years have witnessed a reconfiguring of concepts of human rights, of real and unreal, right and wrong, and also the absence of any such distinctions. We have witnessed the wealthiest increase their wealth by rallying against inequity, and democratic governments manipulating their people through fear and intimidation. We have watched as…
Communist China Can’t Run Hong Kong
September 30, 2022
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Commentary Oct. 1 marks the 73rd anniversary of the founding of Communist China. For the Hong Kong government, it will, on the one hand, propagate that Hong Kong is writing a new chapter of history “from chaos to governance, and from governance to greater prosperity” under the National Security Law; on the other hand, the…
Cabinet Unsure If Canada’s $510 Million Investment in Chinese Infrastructure Bank Created Jobs
Cabinet says it’s unclear if any jobs were created after Canada made a $510 million investment in Beijing’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), documents show. “The Government of Canada is aware of five Canadian firms having signed contracts as part of the Bank’s corporate procurement,” cabinet wrote in a report introduced in the Senate at…
Nigeria the Next Afghanistan, Says Governor Who Challenges Abuja’s Gun-control Laws
Unless rule of law returns to Nigeria soon, the nation will subside into a general civil war reminiscent of Afghanistan, Benue state governor Samuel Ortom told The Epoch Times in an interview. “From what happened in Afghanistan, we see that one day the president will run away from that [presidential] villa and hand it over…
UN Report on Human Rights Abuses in Xinjiang Is a Clarion Call to Action
September 12, 2022
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Commentary On Aug. 31, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a highly anticipated report on the ongoing human rights violations and abuses targeting Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang, China. Released within the final minutes of Michelle Bachelet’s term as U.N. High Commissioner for…
Saudi Arabian Woman Gets 45 Years in Prison for Sharing Opinions Online: Human Rights Advocates
A Saudia Arabian woman has been sentenced to almost half a century in prison for sharing her opinions online, a human rights organization has reported. Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani was sentenced to 45 years in prison in August by the Appellate Division of the Specialized Criminal Court in Saudi Arabia, according to Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN),…
China’s Treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity: UN
A number of “serious human rights violations” may have been committed against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, according to a new report by the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR). The 48-page report (pdf) was published on Aug. 31 by outgoing U.N. human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, shortly before the end of her term. Bachelet has…
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