the deputy minister of human rights and international affairs said that in the past year , 136 afghan prisoners have been released. they were transferred to afghan prisons during their sentences in 2013, 3015 afghan convicts were handed over to the afghan authorities at the common border. in a meeting with the head of the afghan embassy in tehran, askar jalalian added: agreements on the transfer of convicts, the extradition of criminals and judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters have been signed between the two countries, which is a clear example of the effort and effort to develop legal and judicial relations between iran. in this meeting, the ambassador of the caretaker government expressed his gratitude for the implementation of the agreement on the transfer of afghan convicts and prisoners and called for the continuation and development of legal and judicial cooperation between tehran and kabul. extinct making medicine, food is a thing of the past in afghanistan. the spokesman of the national food and drug administration of the taliban says that since the beginning of

humanity, but benefit. thanks to its dominance in the international economy in the international information space, the united states. and eu countries use human rights as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairsof sovereign and independent states to introduce economic and other restrictions against unwanted countries. it is obvious that such actions of the west directly violate the rights of ordinary people in punished, in quotes, countries. the detrimental nature of such a policy for the general climate of international relations is aggravating. a national assembly with specific powers in strategic areas of our life. lithuania decided to test the citizens of belarus for loyalty to the country's political course. about 20 thousand people will have to complete the questionnaire, refuse it or answer in disagreement with the opinion of vilnius will lead to deprivation of residence permit and deportation. one of the main questions in the test is to express your attitude towards the special operation in ukraine. the lithuanian authorities seem to have seriously decided to get rid of those who have settled in the country. zmagarov. the so-called public opinion leaders were even involved in the proc

and indifference to gross violations of human rights in palestine. kanani said under the pretext of protecting human rights, germany intervenes in the internal affairs of countries and at the same time boosts its economy by building arms factories. the spokesperson of the foreign ministry added that it is a bitter irony that some western governments with a history of equipping the saddam regime with chemical weapons and supporting the genocide in gaza claim to defend human rights. palestine supporters protest against an arms manufacturing company in england. a group of supporters of palestine in england blocked the entrance of one of the largest companies that supply weapons to the zionist regime, albid systems, in the season of palestine action. they did they chanted in solidarity with the palestinians and strongly condemned the military support of the zionist regime. elite systems company provides drones, ammunition, combat vehicles, missiles and other types of weapons to the israeli army. the plastic material production factory in the city of hebron in the west bank of the jordan river suffered a fire. in this fire, a large part of the factory was

with international treaties and interferes in internal affairs and maintains the principle of political neutrality. this corresponds to one of the fundamental tasks of the sco to ensure human rights freedoms, taking into account the requirements of the legislation of each member state of the organization. everything since yesterday. members of the mission have already arrived in minsk, and we have already held the first organizational meeting, defined tasks, a work plan, distributed all members of the mission into groups, assigned them the areas that need to be visited, and i would like to note that we determine the areas ourselves, observer mission, without any influence or pressure from the host authorities countries, uh, there are certain elements of surprise here. individual regions, questions that concern people today were raised during a direct telephone line, communications with the speaker of the upper house of parliament, natalya kachanova. kostyukovichi, zhlobin, kobrin, baranovichi, minsk. calls came in for 2 hours from different regions of the country, and the phone did not stop for a minute. most of the questions received concerned the housing and communal services s

principles, respect for the un charter and non-interference in internal affairs. respect for the political choices of countries, we also oppose the politicization of human rightssanctions, at least if these sanctions act as a means of enslavement and domination, we oppose any neo-colonial approach in our relations. and the russian federation and mali, we oppose the politicization of international institutions, regional institutions, including international judicial institutions. as for bilateral cooperation, i think everything has been going very well in the last year. we have a lot of communication at the ministerial level, at the technical level, we all work to fulfill instructions, adopted by simingoita and vladimir putin in various sectors, these are energy, agriculture, natural resources, mines. we want to push our cooperation even further. therefore, we accept russia’s proposal to hold a meeting in april to expand our cooperation, to deepen this cooperation. in humanitarian terms. i would like to once again express my gratitude to the russian federation for its support, for the constant support that russia provides to africa and mali. i would like to rem

and predominantly muslim groups macons fought to international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity. and that serious human rights violations have been committed in xinjiang. last congress the house foreign affairs committee held a hearing to take heartbreaking testimony about the crimes being committed against the uyghur people in xinjiang. the committee passed a bipartisan resolution led by chairman mccaul and ranking member meeks condemning the p.r.c.'s genocide in xinjiang as well as passed the uyghur forced labor prevention act, which president biden signed into law. however, as long as beijing's genocide continues, congress must continue to act. h.r. 2766 calls for the creation of a special coordinator for uyghur issues to protect the distinct identities of uyghurs and other minority groups in xinjiang. it also provides the state department and our diplomats with tools to enhance our diplomatic efforts and programs in support of those suffering under the p.r. krmpt's repression -- p.r.c.'s repression. i encourage my colleagues to join us in supporting this measure and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from north carolina reserves. the gentlewoman fr

and punish incitement to genocide. also a tennis ross as a former executive director of human rights watch. he's also a visiting professor at princeton university school of public and international affairs, and he's joining us from new york. good to see you, mr. ross. thank you for your time. what do you think of the court saying that the powerless situation doesn't demand a vision additional provisional measures? but the immediate and effective implementation of the measures it's already ordered . but i think it's, we know south africa brought this emergency application because it fear the consequences of distracting didn't vision of problem. where 1200000 people have complicated. it's the last place in casa, most of them have, you know, gradually moved south from various places. northern, northern, you know, more further north seemed awful. and everybody fears there will be of one dash. they've got can. yeah. who goes forward with the threatened invasion. that's what prompted south africa to bring this case, this emergency application and saw that one of the court to order that this invasion of rob, i not state planks. now the court did you go that far? but it did, as you noted, use v

yesterday, the ministry of foreign affairs of yemen condemned the recent us and british attacks on this country, calling these aggressions a violation of human rights. international and the united nations charter. the foreign ministry of yemen considered the aggressions of the united states and england as an attempt to cover up the genocidal war crimes of the zionist regime in the gaza strip and held these two countries responsible for continuing to threaten shipping and international trade. in more than four months of fighting in the northern front of the occupied territories, lebanon's hezbollah has conducted an average of 8 daily operations against the zionist forces. i will go with my colleague who is stationed at the border of lebanon with occupied palestine. mr. azimzadeh, i greet you . with the introduction that i serve viewers i announced, hizbullah. which positions did the zionist army target and what was the maximum number of hezbollah operations in one day? mrs. mirsaneh, dear viewers, hello , have a good time, hizbollah amario has published the beginning of the battle of storm al-aqsa on the northern front of the occupied territories until the 15th of

was attempting to integrate human rights, due diligence and a number of other important governance aspects into safeguards. china knows this will interfere with internal affairs. in the end, china won. according to my research from a scientist who has studied the bretton woods institutions, china establishing its own competitor to the bretton woods institutions, the beijing-led asian infrastructure bank in 2015. what ensued was very little support from countries like the united states and japan. china won a major diplomatic victory where the g7 split aip membership through the western governors. it was able to gain a major credit rating of aaa. china, india and russia the largest shareholders do not have such a rating. nor does the development bank. in 2018, it issued a response to capital markets to increase to a hundred billion dollars. back to your question. it seems china is clearly testing out an alternative order what we have been discussing. this does impact the government aspect. it is the only way to hold any institution accountable. for it to allow citizen participation. unfortunately, with aib, we are seeing a weakening of standards across the boar

human rights watch. he's also a visiting professor at princeton university school of public and international affairs and he explained why the i c. j rejected south africa's request for additional professional measures. in one way to understand what the court just did go is that it's, it basically, you're saying we already ordered all of this to stop. you know, rather than just repeat ourselves, we basically are saying it's up to the government. so, but we're really un security council and for most us government to stop this, going to prevent up like that. and that's the way to read this, this latest response to the emergency application. yeah. and really interesting timing, because just before we head off the court ruling, we had president joe biden saying that he's spoken to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. yes. again, and he's saying that they must be a temporary cease fire, but other, any indications that the us is now more willing to use the leverage that it has with as well to achieve that you know, sap, we know, in other words, by the has been you know very strong, rhetorically in pushing for an

and international affairs. he served for nearly three decades as the executive director of human rights watch.elcome to democracy now! we just heard this devastating report on the ground from a journalist in rafah in gaza, and then we hear the south african foreign affairs minister talking about the renewed appeal they're making to the international court of justice. can you explain what is happening and what this imminent ground invasion, that is what is about to happen in rafah means, and if you think international law can deal with this? >> i think as everybody knows, the israeli military is gradually moving from northern to southern gaza. the last place left, the supposed safe place -- at this point we have heard 1.2 million palestinians have congregated -- is rafah. there's no place else to go within gaza. not surprisingly, there are hamas people there so netanyahu is saying we want to invade rafah. there's this problem, the review massive bloodshed if that happens. even the biden administration is saying, don't do it until you evacuate the civilian population. yet yahoo! has said, i will

state bodies , that is, the international court of the un, for example, this is the ministry of foreign affairs, european. human rights court, this is the ministry of justice and course, there are always procedures absolutely within the framework of the current legislation, procurements, and with regard to the procurement of legal services, that is, and this is done by absolutely all, all states that are primarily represented by state bodies in international relevant courts, and have such procurement procedures in order to hire the services of international lawyers, which actually help a lot. preparation of documents and this is an absolutely general practice, this is what other state bodies of ukraine do, in particular the ones i just mentioned, the russian federation itself, which also has international lawyers in its composition, now mostly, of course, from iran, china, and france , with african, shall we say, origins, but everyone has these international teams anyway, so it's a common practice, so there's nothing here. extraordinary, everyone acts like that. and maybe the last question, but it is important, if you can just take a minute, it is not so littl

and international affairs, the university of mary washington. we welcome you, melissa. whose research focus is on relations and comparative politics. a particular focus on human rights, nonviolent and violent non-state actors in latin america. she's the author or coauthor of articles in the journals international studies quarterly political science quarterly, peace, political science and politics and social science quarterly. dr. teaches courses in us latin relations. latin american and drug politics in latin america. it's great to have you with us. dr. daniel preston, an award winning historian, began his professional career as undergraduate intern right here at the national archives from 1978 to 1979. he founded the papers of james monroe in historical documents publication project in 1990 and served as its editor in chief for 30 years, retiring in 2020. he is currently coeditor of the papers of daniel chester french, the american sculptor who two of the great icons of united states, the minuteman statue in concord, mass. and statue of abraham lincoln. and the lincoln in washington, dc. welcome. dr. has written nancy kindler, chair of constitutional democracy, pro

sema, the first minister of women's affairs, also for 17 years handling the human rights issues for afghanistan, looking at it internally andeporting on afghanistan human rights. during the 17 years of looking from karzai forward. she wrote a book recently called "outspoken. she has been asked the question outright and didn't hesitate for one minute. she said the answer is no. if i thought we could actually do something here, of course, i would look at any opportunity, anyway. but the answer is no. there is nothing that this kind of normalization will produce in terms of really a normalization of women's lives there. merissa: the government of qatar has officially been asked by the u.s. government to be the interlocutor. we have also seen those efforts unfortunately have not gone anywhere because they ended up, as you mentioned, did what they wanted to do. it seems that is the number one issue on their agenda. ambassador, you mentioned the american university of afghanistan. you are one of the key individuals that was also there for the opening, when the first stone was basically put there. as you mentioned, we met both mal

the first minister of women's affairs, she also was for 17 years handling the human rights issues for afghanistan, looking at it internally and reporting on afghanistan human rights. during the 17 years of looking from karzai forward. she wrote a book recently called "outspoken." she has been asked the question outright. she did not hesitate for one minute. she said the answer is no. she said, i am very pragmatic. if i thought we could actually do something here, of course, i would look at any opportunity, any way. but the answer is no. there is nothing that this kind of normalization will produce if normalization of women's lives there. >> the government has been asked by the u.s. government to be the interlock. we have seen those efforts going nowhere. they ended up as you mentioned doing what they wanted to do. it seems that is the number one issue on their agenda. what is the future of the university? we have a number of students from qatar. we have some that are unable to go. what is the future for this university and how can we also help keep that coke -- -- hope alive. >> one afghan young lady was asked the question, w

first minister of women's affairs and also was for 17 years handling theaf human righs issue for afghanistan looking at it internally and reporting on afghanistan human rightse 17 years of looking at from ghaani forward, excuse me, karzai forward. so she actually wrote a book recently, and it's called "outspoken." she's been asked this question outright. she didn't hesitate for one minute, and she said, no. the answer is no. he said i'm very pragmatic. if i saw that we could actually do something here, of course i would look at any if opportunity any way. but the answer's no. there's, there's nothing that this kind of normalization is going to produce in terms of really a normalization of women's lives there. >> and the government of qatar has been officially asked by the u.s. government to, of course, be the interlocutor, and we've seen also those efforts, unfortunately, have not gone anywhere because they ended up, as you mentioned, doing what they wanted to do. and.at seems that that is the number one issue on their agenda. ambassador, you mentioned the american university of afghanistan. you were one of key individuals that also was there, i think, for

the us and eu countries use human rights as a pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereignendent states. the day before in geneva. the session of the un human rights council opened. the belarusian side also presented its position on this issue at a high forum. unfortunately, contrary to the original idea, the anniversary year of the universal declaration, 2023, has witnessed a record number of regional armed conflicts in the world over the past 30 years. this deplorable result also conceals a significant negative role for the concept of human rights. it's an accusation. in the arsenal of western countries. thanks to its dominance in the international economy and international information space , the united states and european union countries use human rights as a pretext for interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign and independent states, for introducing against undesirable countries to obviously, such actions of the west directly violate the rights of ordinary people, in punished, in quotes , countries. the detrimental nature of such a policy for the general climat