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India urged to improve its human rights record at the UN

UN member states ask India to protect minority rights and freedom of speech, but New Delhi defends its rights record.

Al Jazeera

Bid for UNHRC seat needs care

In late September 2022, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai announced Thailand's bid to be a member of the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the 2025 cycle. While this is a bold, welcome move, self-reflection is much needed.

Bangkok Post

How to invigorate multilateralism

Multilateralism, embodied in the United Nations (UN) as the world’s primary body for fostering international relations and international law among all countries, has been the mainstay of global history since the World War II.

Bangkok Post

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Green activists urge U.N. rights body to reject Vietnam's bid to join

More than 50 winners of a prominent global environmental prize have called on the U.N. human rights council (UNHRC) to reject Vietnam's effort to join it, citing a crackdown on climate activists in the Southeast Asian nation.

Reuters

Leading environmentalists decry crackdown on Vietnam climate activists

Letter from Goldman prize winners aims to block country’s bid to join UN’s human rights council over its jailing of campaigners

The Guardian - US

In Masafer Yatta, Palestinian families whose homes were destroyed by Israel's military are living in caves

Palestinian families are living in caves after their homes were being demolished by the Israeli army in what human rights groups have called a humanitarian disaster.

ABC News

Parliament proceedings | India called upon Russian, Ukrainian sides to return to path of diplomacy, dialogue: Govt.

Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, India has consistently called for immediate cessation of hostilities and an end to the violence, Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan said

The Hindu

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Last-ditch bid to block Rwanda deportation flight rejected by Court of Appeal

Three senior judges dismissed the appeal, saying there was no error in the earlier decision of Mr Justice Swift.

The Independent UK

Rwanda deportation plan gets go-ahead by appeals court

Church of England says plan is ‘immoral’ and ‘shames Britain’

The Independent UK

Act or dissolve, Zelensky challenges UN, but Ukraine atrocities already pile pressure on Russia

In his first address to the UN Security Council since the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week called on the 15-member body to reform itself or face dissolution. That may be easier said than done. But the response to reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha, near Kyiv, highlights…

France 24

Angkhana to join UNHRC disappearances panel

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has appointed activist Angkhana Neelaphaijit as a member of its Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), according to the UN.

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