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UN top council slams N Korea's rights record
Oped, John J. Metzler, Published on 19/06/2024
» North Korea's ongoing human rights violations were slammed and shamed by most members of the UN Security Council in a meeting last week. In a powerful briefing by both diplomats and a high profile North Korean political defector, the 15-member council underscored the noxious relationship between the regime's massive military buildups at the expense of both its population's human rights and physical well being -- namely access to sufficient food and nutrition.
Tough security law dims Hong Kong's lustre
Oped, John J. Metzler, Published on 28/03/2024
» There was no hint of dissent in Hong Kong's Legislative Council as its 88 members passed Article 23, a piece of draconian domestic Security legislation which "complements" Beijing's own 2020 Security stamp on the Special Administrative Region.
Junta has it wrong
Oped, Postbag, Published on 07/03/2024
» Re: "Thai MPs hold Myanmar seminar over junta's objection", (BP, March 2) & "Myanmar now an 'endless nightmare'", (BP, March 3).
A vision for global cooperation
Oped, Maria Fernanda Espinosa & Danilo Turk, Published on 28/10/2021
» The world faces a range of serious threats -- from exclusionary nationalism to great-power competition to growing inequality -- that are preventing the international community from working together to solve other complex challenges, such as the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and the accelerating pace of climate change. But global crises require global solutions, and with his highly anticipated report, "Our Common Agenda", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has outlined a new vision for multilateral cooperation.