Katherine Gallagher, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, and other human rights activists from around the world took part in a webinar panel on Thursday. “What we saw (Wednesday) in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva is the US expressing its intention to rejoin,” said Dr. Michael Kearney, a legal researcher for Al-Haq, the Palestinian human rights agency based in Ramallah. “But it is doing so on the condition that Palestine is removed from the agenda of the Human Rights Council. Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday the US would seek re-election to the council in 2022. “The Human Rights Council must support those fighting against injustice and tyranny,” Blinken said.

Source: Ethiopian News February 25, 2021 19:01 UTC