Council Holds its General Segment 1 March 2017 The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its high-level segment after hearing statements from 19 States and four organizations, and then heard statements from States and civil society organizations in its general segment. Srdjan Darmanović, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Montenegro, said terrorism, escalation of hostilities and instability around the globe continued to be one of the major threats to human rights, and called for greater accountability for gross and systematic human rights violations, including attacks on civilians, discrimination against women, and the high level of sexual and gender-based violence used as a tactic of...
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