"What is ironic is that if Bradley Manning, Mr Snowden and Julian Assange were pursued by other governments, such as China and Russia, the White House and Foggy Bottom would be applauding them and calling them not just whistleblowers, but heroes and fighters for human rights," comments Chen Weihua, deputy editor of China Daily USA.
UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 8 - Secretary General Kofi Annan on Thursday vigorously defended Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, after comments she made about detention and torture came under criticism from John R. Bolton, the United States ambassador.
A6 Annan Criticizes U.S. Envoy Secretary General Kofi Annan defended Louise Arbour, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, after comments she made about detention and torture came under criticism from John R. Bolton, the United States ambassador.
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As one human rights activist commented: "This is something that is very similar to what Israel does to the Palestinians and to what happened in South Africa".
"This initiative is intended to restrict the rights of Russian citizens, which we consider completely unjust and baseless," said Konstantin Dolgov, the Russian foreign ministry's human rights envoy, in comments to the Interfax news agency in Brussels.
Madyar Samienejad, an Oslo-based human rights defender, said comments by the Iranian judicial authorities over abolishing the death penalty for drug-related offences appeared to be serious, showing there was a will to tackle the issue.
President Jimmy Carter, the first U.S. president to call himself a born-again Christian, has said that Trump violated "basic human rights" with his comments about Mexican immigrants and his call to ban Muslims from entering the country. .
He will discuss global trends against human rights with specific comment on the plight of the Rohingya (he is newly returned from Coxs Bazar), the situation in Yemen, and the treatment of the Yazidis by ISIS in northern Iraq.
(Go to Article) A news analysis article on Tuesday about the death of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, misstated the name of the organization of a human rights expert who commented that it was unclear how General Pinochet's death would affect prosecutions of his subordinates.
He talks about his history as a human rights activist while commenting on the irony that he is being accused as a violator of human rights.
