The UK delivers statement on Micronesia at the 37th Session of Universal Periodic Review (UPR), sharing recommendations to improve their human rights record.
Thank you, Madam President,
The United Kingdom appreciates the Federated States of Micronesia’s continued participation in the UPR process. We commend [the Federated States of] Micronesia’s efforts to implement the recommendations from its last review, despite capacity and resource constraints, and we welcome the ongoing consultation with civil society in this process.
The United Kingdom commends [the Federated States of] Micronesia on the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. We further welcome the Government’s preparation of a report into the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and encourage further action in this regard.
The new EU-China agreement underscores a fundamental question of the post-pandemic world order: How should strategic and economic relations between major powers with very different institutional and political arrangements be managed? Can democracies remain true to their values while engaging in trade and investment with China?
EU prepares to betray itself with China trade deal Print this article
Article 22 of the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights asserts that the Union shall respect cultural, religious and linguistic diversity.
Or perhaps not.
The EU is expected imminently to announce a major trade deal with communist China, a regime that has about as much respect for those diverse rights as oceanic whitetip sharks have respect for shipwrecked sailors. China, after all, has thrown 2 million of its Uighur citizens into reeducation gulags, sterilized many thousands, and used the rest for slavelike labor. Hong Kongers are marginally luckier: They ve simply seen Beijing shred its treaty commitments under the Sino-British joint declaration and crush the city s democratic rule of law.
Monks and BGF force villagers to build Papun bridge
Villagers taken from 30 villages were ordered to work on the construction of the HteeLah Eh Hta Bridge that crosses the Yunzanlin River, near Papun Township.
The Karen Human Right Group’s report released on June 13, described how villagers from Meh Mwe, Day Wah, Kyaw Pah, Htee Th’Daw Hta and Meh Pree village were forced to construct the bridge. KHRG said the construction project was led by U Thuzana, the head monk at Myaing Gyi Ngu Monastery.
The government’s militia, the Border Guard Force 1014th was responsible for the security of the construction. The KHRG report claimed that the “villagers reported that they were ordered to provide both labor and money for two local projects. Villagers reported that they were ordered to provide both labor and money for two local