Note: A complete summary of today’s Second Committee meetings will be available on Monday, 10 October. ALASSANE CONTE (Guinea), associating himself with the “Group of 77” and China and the African Group, shared that his country’s population saw an improvement in its conditions in the past decade, with average life expectancy extending by 2-3 years. […]
Continue ReadingThe East African bloc IGAD, aid groups, and development partners have called for greater coordination to fight growing hunger in the region. An estimated 51 million people across East Africa are in dire need of food, water and medicine. Ministers from the eight nations of IGAD — the Intergovernmental Authority on Development — met in […]
Continue ReadingBeijing highlighted the failure of a push by the United States and some Western countries to debate China’s human rights record in Xinjiang at next year’s U.N. Human Rights Council. Uyghur rights groups voiced strong disappointment. In a statement Friday by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a spokesperson accused the U.S. and the West of […]
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