Politics & Diplomacy
UN General Assembly elects 15 members to the Human Rights Council, including Ukraine, Germany and Japan
The General Assembly filled 15 of the Human Rights Council's 47 seats by secret ballot on 13 October,…
Topic
Human rights
Politics & Diplomacy
France apologises after criticism of US human-rights vote
Paris said its criticism concerned one UN vote and was not a broader judgment of US human-rights commitments,…
Asia-Pacific
“The U.S. should be held accountable for human rights violations” – China to the U.N.
China’s envoy to the United Nations in Geneva stated on Tuesday that the U.S. Army and the forces…