GENEVA: The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will hold its 43rd session from today in Switzerland.
The convention will continue for 26 days; from today until 20th March.
Federal Minister for Human Rights Dr. Shireen Mazari will attend the meeting continuously for three days. Pakistan will take up the issue of human rights in Indian occupied Kashmir as the curfew in IoK had entered its 204 consecutive days today, while India, however, had made an ill-fated plan to bring a controversial citizenship law into the occupied valley.
According to Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Abdul Hameed Lone, India is in the process of identifying Kashmiris with a seven-fold identity scheme to show their identity.
Crisis in Libya emitted last April when the LNA launched an assault on the GNA in Tripoli. Since then, at least 287 civilians have been killed and 146,000 Libyans have been dismissed.
A recent UN report concluded that over half of the civilian casualties in 2019 were due to airstrikes—delivered from weapons that the UN believes were received from a foreign state.
The Council, which was created by UN General Assembly in 2006, made up of 47 states that are responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.
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