Posted on 12/09/2020 9:10:08 AM PST by Olog-hai
The U.N human rights chief says she expects the U.S. administration of President-elect Joe Biden will be “much, much better” when it comes to human rights, and warned of shrinking “democratic space” in Hong Kong — saying her office will be monitoring the rights situation there.
Michelle Bachelet spoke to reporters in Geneva in a catch-all news conference to recap the year and look ahead to 2021. She cited concerns about the inequalities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism like that highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement.
Bachelet hailed “a series of promising pledges” by Biden, on issues like increasing the number of refugees resettled in the United States, an end to construction of the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and “an overhaul of the asylum system.”
She said she hoped the U.S. would return to the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council, from which the Trump administration pulled out amid allegations of anti-Israel bias and an excessive acceptance of governments with dismal human rights records. …
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I forgot I posted about her five years ago.
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