GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. Context: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is at the Xinjiang region, where Beijing is alleged to have repressed Muslim minorities. China said it’s hoping the visit can “clarify misinformation.” …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: India and neighbourhood relations. Context: The US State Department report, based on accounts by news outlets and NGOs as well as research by diplomats, has singled out China for abuses against ethnic minorities, including Uygurs in Xinjiang. The report said the Chinese government continues to commit genocide and crimes …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Context: The United Nations General Assembly suspended Russia from the Human Rights Council during a meeting recently. Ninety-four members voted in favour while 24 voted against, and 58 abstained. India also abstained in the UNGA vote moved by the United …
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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Context: India has abstained on a vote at the UNHRC resolution which “strongly condemned” aggression by Russia on Ukraine. What was the resolution about? It asked the council to set up an international commission of enquiry into Russia’s actions …
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GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. Context: For its opening ceremony, China picked a final torchbearer from Xinjiang as a rebuttal to the many countries that have criticized its human rights record in the region. Xinjiang is a region where …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. Context: China has announced sanctions on four members of the U.S. government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom in retaliation for penalties imposed on Chinese officials over complaints of abuses in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang …
GS Paper 2: Topics Covered: Effect of policies and politics of developed and developing countries on India’s interests, Indian diaspora. Context: Forty-three countries have called on China to “ensure full respect for the rule of law” for the Muslim Uighur community in Xinjiang. The declaration accused China of a litany of human rights violations …
GS Paper 2 Topics Covered: Important International institutions, agencies and fora, their structure, mandate. Context: India gets re-elected to UN Human Rights Council for 6th term with overwhelming majority. Besides, the US has also joined more than three years after the Trump administration quit the UNHRC over what it called chronic bias against Israel and …
GS Paper 3 Topics Covered: Conservation related issues. Context: The United Nations Human Rights Council has unanimously voted for recognising a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a universal right in Geneva, Switzerland. Significance: If recognised by all, the right would the first of its kind in more than 70 years since the Universal …
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Topics Covered: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections. Universal Basic Income Context: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has informed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that …
