GENEVA, March 7 — The UN human rights chief Volker Turk today criticised governments, including China and Russia, for restrictions on civil society in a speech that also took...
GENEVA, March 7 — The UN human rights chief Volker Turk today criticised governments, including China and Russia, for restrictions on civil society in a speech that also took some Western states to task for their records on poverty and police violence.
“Harsh restriction of the civic space is the Achilles heel - the fatal weakness - of governance,” he said, mentioning incidents such as Beijing’s “arbitrary detention” of human rights defenders and lawyers and Russia’s closure of newspapers. In rarer criticism of Western democracies, Turk raised the issue of U.S. police violence against Blacks and a possible record drop in living standards in Britain, urging London to talk with striking workers.
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