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Opening
UNHRC: “Never seen a threat of this scope to human
rights”. On Monday, September 9, UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
opened the 42ndregular session of the Human Rights
Council in Geneva with an update on the situation
of human rights worldwide. During the session,
scheduled until September 27, the 47 Member States
of the Council will examine over 90 reports on a
wide range of issues presented by 25 human rights
experts, groups and mechanisms. The human rights
situations in Myanmar, Yemen, Libya, Somalia,
Sudan, Central African Republic and Georgia will
also be on the agenda during the session. One year
after her appointment, High Commissioner Bachelet
stated: “The world has never seen a threat to
human rights of this scope. This is not a
situation where any country, any institution, any
policymaker can stand on the sidelines. The
economies of all nations; the institutional,
political, social and cultural fabric of every
State, and the rights of all your people – and
future generations – will be
impacted.”
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Scourge
of slavery still claims 40 million victims
worldwide. Incidents of modern-day slavery are
“only likely to increase” as a result of some of
biggest challenges facing the world today, a UN
expert outlined in a report for the Human Rights
Council in Geneva on Monday. The Special
Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery,
Urmila Bhoola, explained that over 40 million
people are enslaved around the world, a quarter of
them children. Due to problems of environmental
degradation, migration and shifting demographics,
the scourge of modern-day slavery is expected to
grow.
Over 60 percent of those in forced labour
work in the private sector, Ms. Bhoola said, with
women and girls disproportionately affected. Of
the female victims involved in forced labour, 98
percent have experienced sexual
violence.
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Political
solutions 'Prerequisite to sustainable peace'.
While peacekeeping is an “essential tool” for
preventing conflict and reducing the risk of
relapse, “political solutions are a prerequisite
to sustainable peace”, the United Nations
peacekeeping chief told the Security Council on
Monday.
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Us
Senate passes Bipartisan Uighur Human Rights Act
against China.
The U.S. Senate late Wednesday
passed a bipartisan act which aims to direct
various U.S. government bodies to prepare reports
on China's treatment of the Uighurs, a
predominantly Muslim Turkic ethnic
group.
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BREXIT:
operation Yellowhammer no-deal document
published.
Riots on the streets, food price
rises and reduced medical supplies are real risks
of the UK leaving the EU without a deal, a
government document has said. Ministers have
published details of their Yellowhammer
contingency plan, after MPs voted to force its
release. It outlines a series of "reasonable worst
case assumptions" for the impact of a no-deal
Brexit on 31 October.
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UNGA
– Nuclear testing has disastrous consequences for
people and planet.
On Monday the UN General
Assembly hosted a high-level plenary meeting to
commemorate and promote the International Day
Against Nuclear Tests, with keynote speeches by UN
Secretary General Guterres and Lassina Zerbo,
Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Organization.
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ECFR
SURVEY: Give the people what they want – popular
demand for strong european foreign policy.
On
September 10, the European Council on Foreign
Relations published a Policy Brief on the outcome
of its pan-European survey on the vision and
preferences of European citizens on foreign policy
and the role they wish to attribute to the
European Union in this field. The results show a
clear popular willingness to confer more powers to
Brussels in this field, to allow the European bloc
to build a strong and cohesive foreign policy,
independent and capable of setting out its own
course in what is considered an increasingly
complicated and dangerous geopolitical framework.
However, citizens stress, European institutions
must demonstrate they are up to the task if they
do not wish to see their popular mandate in this
regard revoked, and must pay close attention to
the policy issues and preferences indicated by the
electorate. Among the absolute priorities is the
migration issue and the answers citizens expect
from Brussels.
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