Socialist former president of Chile and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced on Sunday she would no longer campaign to replace Antonio Guterres as secretary-general of the United Nations.
The six candidates vying to become the next Secretary General of the United Nations on Thursday held a town hall-style debate in which they outlined their vision for the international body should they become elected.
Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice President Han Zheng on Wednesday, touring the country amid her campaign to become the next U.N. Secretary General.
The administration of Chilean conservative President José Antonio Kast on Tuesday announced that Chile has withdrawn support for socialist former President Michelle Bachelet’s “unfeasible” bid to become the next U.N. Secretary-General.
Chile’s outgoing far-left President Gabriel Boric on Monday formally presented the candidacy of socialist former President Michelle Bachelet to become the next U.N. Secretary-General — and announced that her bid is also backed by leftists governments of Brazil and Mexico.
The government of Argentine President Javier Milei has created a government office to support the candidates of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi to become the next United Nations secretary-general, the newspaper La Nación reported on Tuesday.
Far-left President of Chile Gabriel Boric claimed during his Tuesday speech at the U.N. General Assembly that he would like to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu face trial at international courts over his role in the “genocide” in Gaza.
The 52nd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened this week — with 70 percent of the membership consisting of autocracies, dictatorships, and other non-democratic nations.
CARACAS, Venezuela – The United Nations Human Rights Council began its 51st session in Geneva on Monday with the Latin American dictatorships of Cuba and Venezuela among its members – despite their lengthy track record of human rights violations.
The United Nations Human Rights Council began its 51st session on Monday with a new high commissioner and under heavy global scrutiny following the recent publication of a report on the Uyghur genocide in China that notably did not use the word “genocide” to describe Beijing’s campaign in East Turkistan.
China’s ambassador to the United Nations, Chen Xu, said on Friday that his government will no longer cooperate with the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) following its release of a report on China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslims of Xinjiang province.
The United Nations human rights office allowed the Chinese Communist Party to peruse a draft of its report on the Party’s genocide of non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan and “watered down” the evidence most clearly fitting the definition of that atrocity, Politico reported on Thursday.
The long-delayed U.N. human rights office report on China’s abuse of the Uyghur Muslims was finally released on Wednesday, the last day in office for outgoing High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.
The United Nations human rights office published its long-awaited report on Chinese Communist Party abuses against Uyghurs and other non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan on Wednesday, effectively confirming the atrocities researchers and journalists have documented for years but refusing to acknowledge the systematic elimination of these groups as genocide.
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which operates under the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), urged America on Tuesday to “develop reparation proposals” for descendants of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, claiming its “lingering legacy” still represses black Americans today.
The United Nations’ top official on slavery declared in a world report made public on Tuesday that the Chinese Communist Party was actively enslaving members of non-Han ethnic groups in East Turkistan, an occupied region west of China, and has likely engaged in similar activities in Tibet.
The brutal Chinese Communist government is still fighting to suppress the publication of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) report on the genocidal oppression of the Uyghur Muslims.
Former prisoners in Chinese concentration camps, members of the oppressed Uyghur community of East Turkistan, and supporters gathered in New York on Tuesday to urge the United Nations to release a report based on human rights chief Michelle Bachelet’s visit to the region in May.
A Chinese drug trafficking syndicate known as the “Bang de Fujian” has been building a high-tech indoor marijuana cultivating empire in Chile since at least 2020, multiple news reports in the country confirmed this week, citing the Investigations Police of Chile (PDI).
The communist government of Cuba hijacked this week’s ongoing U.N. Human Rights Council session to deliver a statement, signed by 69 countries, in support of China’s genocide of Uyghur and other non-Han ethnic groups in occupied East Turkistan.
China has spent much of the past two decades cornering Chile’s lucrative copper and lithium markets, potentially making it impossible for nearly any other country to establish a formidable “green” economy, as both resources are pivotal in the making of electric vehicles.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced at a meeting on Monday that she will not seek to continue in the post after her term expires in August.
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency proclaimed Thursday that China would continue its “counterterrorism and deradicalization” – a euphemism for the genocide of the region’s native people – in occupied East Turkistan.
The Chinese Communist Party’s all-out effort to gaslight the world into forgetting about its human rights abuses continued on Wednesday with a bizarre state media editorial urging the entire world to sue the United States for supporting terrorism.
China’s state-run Global Times on Saturday exploited the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death to push the Communist Party narrative that America does not have the moral standing to criticize China’s horrendous human rights abuses.
Uyghur rights groups are calling on U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet to resign after her long-delayed visit to China turned into a whitewash of the Uyghur genocide.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) co-hosted an event in Liberia on Tuesday with the Communist Party of China on the “right to development” – less than a week after the head of the office, Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, absolved China of years of accusations of genocide at home.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry officially demanded the United Nations investigate “human rights problems” in America on Monday, shortly after U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet absolved China of genocide charges and applauded its “tremendous progress” in human rights this weekend.
China was elected to the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) executive board on Friday, even though the Chinese gave false information to W.H.O. during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, obstructed investigations into the origin of the coronavirus, and persecuted Chinese doctors who tried to raise early warnings about the plague that would ravage the world.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet praised China’s “tremendous achivements” in human rights this weekend and claimed that the Communist Party had “dismantled” all of its concentration camps in the Uyghur region of East Turkistan, concluding a visit to the region.
Chinese state media on Sunday applauded U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet for failing to investigate China’s human rights abuses in the Uyghur region China calls Xinjiang during her visit.
As outrage grows around the world over the leaked Xinjiang Police Files and the irrefutable evidence they provide of China’s atrocities against the Uyghur Muslims, Chinese state media is attacking the leading researcher for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Adrian Zenz.
A huge trove of documents and photographs from police in Xinjiang province, obtained by hackers and released in an extensively vetted report on Tuesday, offers further documentation of the Chinese Communist Party’s horrific human rights abuses. The files include photographic evidence of mass detention and abuse, including very young children from the oppressed Uyghur Muslim minority.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet “expressed admiration for China’s efforts” on “protecting human rights” in conversation with communist dictator Xi Jinping on Wednesday, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday complained that the free world does not understand the genocidal, oppressive, slave-taking Chinese Communist Party’s unique “concept” of human rights – a failure of understanding that might be corrected with more propaganda to “promote mutual learning between China and the West.”
According to a Chinese police officer quoted by Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Wednesday, the Chinese government has issued directives across the Xinjiang region forbidding its captive population, the Uyghur Muslims, from discussing the brainwashing camps in their province.
The Chinese Communist Party’s latest tactic for whitewashing the mass imprisonment, brainwashing, and enslavement of the Uyghur Muslims involves recruiting young foreign travel bloggers to depict the Uyghurs’ home of Xinjiang Province as a happy land of content and productive citizens.
Members of the ruling National Renovation Party in Chile demanded that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet resign on Wednesday after Bachelet endorsed the Communist Party-backed candidate in the nation’s presidential election.
Whistleblower Emma Reilly said on Tuesday the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) terminated her employment less than 24 hours after giving an interview to France’s Le Monde in which she revealed U.N. employees provided the brutal Chinese government with the names of Uyghur dissidents who planned to testify against Beijing’s human rights abuses.
The United Nations announced on Monday it has collected $1 billion in pledges for humanitarian relief in Afghanistan, a sum far greater than the $600 million it originally sought. The United States chipped in $64 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
