Kazakhstan has formally abolished the death penalty, making permanent a nearly 20-year freeze on capital punishment in the country. The move leaves Belarus and Tajikistan as the only remaining countries in emerging Europe and Central Asia which have...
Tag - UN General Assembly
The secretary general of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has published the international organisation’s first report investigating human rights abuses in...
The Armenian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly has abstained from voting on a resolution regarding the rights of Georgian refugees who have fled the...
This was supposed to have been a decisive year for the Western Balkans region on its journey towards EU accession. The strategy paper launched by the European Commission...
“The adoption of the comprehensive Migration Compact currently under debate is the worst possible step that the UN can take for handling the challenge of migration,”...
Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood...
The fundamental principle of “sovereign equality of member states” will be the focus point of Poland during the second year of its term at the United Nations Security...
