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Civil society urge EU states to support resolutions on Palestine in upcoming Human Rights Council session
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On 8 February 2021, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), together with Al-Haq, Al Mezan, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), 11.11.11, and CNCD.11.11.11, sent a joint letter to EU Member States ahead of the upcoming 46
th Human Rights Council (HRC) session, urging states to support the HRC resolutions on Palestine particularly on accountability and Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise.
The joint call comes in light of Israel’s continued widespread and systematic violations against Palestinians, some of which amount to international crimes, and the international community’s continued inaction, including to address Israel’s pervasive impunity. The international law-based resolutions concerning Israel’s illegal settlement enterprise and ensuring accountability for all violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), including East Jerusalem, in particular, are receiving dwindling support from EU
Southern Mongolia: UNPO, SMHRIC File Letter of Allegation with the UN Special Procedures
On 5 February 2021, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, together with its member the Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center, filed a letter of allegation with the United Nations Special Procedures regarding the People s Republic of China s (PRC) moves to remove Mongolian language as a primary language of instruction in schools in the so-called, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. For many years, the ethnic Mongolian population have suffered from repeated efforts to eradicate their culture and identity, including population transfers, central government erosion of autonomy and minority rights guaranteed under the Constitution and laws of the PRC, and efforts to undermine the use of Mongolian language in employment and regular life. A new policy enacted in August 2020, forcibly implemented amid significant repression of the Mongolian population, effectively eradicated