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Sabry to brief UNHRC at 51st Session

Foreign Minister Ali Sabry is to brief the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on the developments in Sri Lanka, at the upcoming 51st Session. The 51st Session of the Human Rights Council is scheduled to be held from 12 September to 07 October 2022 in Geneva. Sabry will lead the Sri Lanka delegation and deliver a statement at the Council during the Interactive Dialogue on Sri Lanka scheduled for Monday, 12 September 2022. The?Minister of?Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reform

29 Aug, 2022

What Does China Want?

By Hal Brands The greatest geopolitical catastrophes occur at the intersection of ambition and desperation. Xi Jinping?s China will soon be driven by plenty of both. In our new book, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, which this article is adapted from, we explain the cause of that desperation: a slowing economy and a creeping sense of encirclement and decline. But first, we need to lay out the grandness of those ambitions?what Xi?s China is trying to achieve. It is difficult to gras

29 Aug, 2022

Hardline Islamic group Hefazat-e-Islam poses challenge for Bangladesh: Research

Brussels [Belgium], August 25 (ANI): Bangladesh is gripped by challenges posed by hardline Islamic group Hefazat-e-Islam as the country continues to witness frequent outbursts of massive violence, increase in religiously motivated illiberalism, and a general shrinking of free, liberal, and secular thinking, a thinktank South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF) reported. The South Asia Democratic Forum (SADF) is a Brussels-based think tank devoted to South Asia and its relationship with the European Un

29 Aug, 2022