China was trying to neutralise human rights criticisms, not carbon during climate summit: Report ANI | Updated: Apr 23, 2021 06:01 IST
Beijing [China], April 22 (ANI): As leaders from around the world from US President Joe Biden to French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for global cooperation to tackle the climate crisis, China used the Leaders Summit on Climate to neutralise the widespread condemnation of its human rights violations.
In an opinion article for The Hill dated Thursday, Jianli Yang, a former political prisoner in China and Aaron Rhodes, who is president of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe, said that by providing China with its own public relations opportunity , the event may well be judged by history as emblematic of the process by which China neutralised not its carbon emissions, but opposition to its human rights atrocities and aggression.
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There are new calls for the resurrection of the Office of Religious Freedoms, with advocates and opposition politicians saying its closure by the Trudeau Liberals has left Canada without a strong response against targeted abductions, rapes and forced conversions of young Christian and Hindu girls in Pakistan.
Opposition MPs say that the Office of Religious Freedoms created under the previous Conservative government monitored and addressed religious persecution and protected the freedom of religion around the world.
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