(Source: United Nations General Assembly) Challenges to the international community's human rights mainstay were debated today as the General Assembly took up the reports of the Human Rights Council's sessions this year. Hearing from just over two dozen speakers expressing fellow feeling with citizens of Paris, Beirut and Baghdad in the wake of devastating terrorist attacks in those cities, delegates discussed the way forward for advancing human rights around the world for every individual. Shocked by the terrorist attacks, Joachim Ruecker, President of the Human Rights Council, said that the Council had reaffirmed that the promotion and protection of human rights for all and the rule of law...
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