Pakistan and Nepal were re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday, as China managed to scrape their place in by the skin of the teeth, and Saudi Arabia was left in the cold entirely. Fifteen positions were up for grabs on the 47-seat body that has been criticised by rights organisations and the […]
Nigeria has dissolved a special police unit after public protests alleging brutality and will launch an investigation into its activities, the presidency announced Sunday. The scrapping of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) will take effect immediately, the office said in a tweet. For its part, the Nigerian Police Force announced in a tweet an investigation […]
China, on Thursday, released a State Council white paper claiming that its far western Xinjiang region – that is currently under international fire and scrutiny – has provided ‘vocational training’ to nearly 1.3 million workers every year, between 2014 to 2019. The ‘Xinjiang backlash’ has mounted over the weeks, with several Western countries imposing product […]
