... a new normal.
A joint statement by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov opposed politicization and double standards on human rights issues. How can China and Russia join hands to counter the West, e.g. via the UN Human Rights Council?
Russia and China have a good and solid experience of cooperation at the UN Security Council. However, more domains should be explored and UNHRC is one of them. Human rights is an important global issue and both countries should ...
... parliamentary elections, held every four years in Iran, resulted in the formation of a parliamentary body with
only 17 female
parliamentarians, that is nearly 6% of the total number of representatives – the former parliament had the same figure. The 2019
UN Women annual report
ranks Iran 180
th
out of 193 countries in terms of gender equality in parliament; globally, there are only
27 states in which wo¬¬¬men account for less than 10 percent of parliamentarians
.
According to the
2011 UN General ...
... Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, who cancelled his visit, was scheduled to visit Meghalaya for an event. After the US, now the United Nations has condemned this draconian Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 and asked for its review immediately. The United Nations Human Rights (UNHR) office has termed India's Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 as "fundamentally discriminatory in nature" for leaving out Muslims and called for an immediate review. "We are concerned that India's new Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 is ...
