United Nations to hold crucial meet on Hong Kong protests

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WASHINGTON: As protests across Hong Kong against a controversial extradition law enter its third month, the United Nations (UN) has decided to take up the matter in a crucial meeting, sources said.

On Wednesday, Beijing slammed the "terrorist-like" attacks by protestors on its citizens during the chaos at the city's airport.

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The pro-democracy movement achieved early success in June with the suspension of the proposed bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to mainland China. This followed unprecedented peaceful demonstrations that brought up to two million people on the streets.

Since then, the UN has shown concerns over human rights violations, especially the use of unethical measures as pepper spray on protesters.

The organisation also said that the meeting would focus on the role played by China during the protests.

Flights operations resumed at Hong Kong's airport on Wednesday after two days of disruptions in the semi-autonomous Chinese city.

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Some 100 flights were cancelled in the two days after some protesters camped in the airport's arrivals area a day after the demonstrations and frenzied mob violence.

On Tuesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, urged Hong Kong authorities to exercise restraint and investigate evidence of its forces firing tear gas at protesters in ways banned by international law.

"Officials can be seen firing tear gas canisters into crowded, enclosed areas and directly at individual protesters on multiple occasions, creating a considerable risk of death or serious injury," Bachelet said in a statement.

Vaynar on August 15th, 2019 at 15:23 UTC »

Seriously, for all the edgelords in this thread crowing about how ineffective the UN is, do you guys have the slightest clue of what you're talking about? No one is denying that the UN has issues but none of you realize the enormous work that UN and its agencies do every single year to save millions of lives around the world.

It has run almost 80 peacekeeping operations in the last 30 years, including 16 current ones. These aren't perfect, but short of a standing army, the UN peacekeeping troops are often the only reason there aren't a couple more widespread wars going on in Central and Western Africa right now. Except for the US, not a SINGLE other country in the world deploys more military personnel abroad. [Source] (http://www.un.org/un70/en/content/70ways#peace) The UN provides food to 80 million people in 80 countries. [Source] (http://www1.wfp.org/overview) For all you vaccine supporters out there, the UN vaccinates 58% of all children who vaccinated. in the entire fucking planet. [Source] (http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44169/1/9789241563864_eng.pdf) The UN directly helped over 30 million refugees worldwide, including setting up refugee camps in some of the worst conflict zones in the world. [Source] (http://www.un.org/un70/en/content/70ways#humanitarian) The United Nations Food Program provides more than 12 fucking billion meals each year to people starving around the world. This includes providing school meals to 20-25 million children through school meals. When's the last time any of you provided a meal to anyone other than yourself? [Source] (https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000019573/download/?_ga=2.42582949.1663114136.1513890451-436282891.1513890451) The UN Development program works in nearly every country in the world on economic development, including grassroots development. The World Health Organization is the largest health organization anywhere in the world, was largely responsible for the eradication of polio. WHO works in countries across the world, preventing millions of deaths through its work in communicable diseases. UN-brokered treaties have led to widespread disarmament of nuclear weapons, including a massive reduction in the nuclear arsenals of the US and Russia. Treaties brokered under the auspices of the UN resulted in the chemical weapons ban. In the nuclear test ban.

Seriously, try and educate yourself before you spout hot takes on the Internet. You come across as ignorant as the anti-vaxxers. The UN has a lot of issues, mostly because it deals with some of the most complex issues on the planet within a sphere where powerful countries seek to maximize their personal benefit. But to try and pretend as if the UN isn't one of the most powerful forces in the world trying to help people and better their lives is ridiculous

u1ta1 on August 15th, 2019 at 13:45 UTC »

Ok just a rudimentary explanation of what UN is since obviously people need it.

It’s mainly set up as a place countries talk about stuff instead of going to war, and collaborate on issues they all can agree on.

The only body that is capable of major decisions is the UNSC,but since one of the primary purpose of the UN is so that the major powers in the world don’t got to war with each other. the UNSC has 5 permanent members with veto power.

autotldr on August 15th, 2019 at 12:01 UTC »

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 65%. (I'm a bot)

By ANI. WASHINGTON: As protests across Hong Kong against a controversial extradition law enter its third month, the United Nations has decided to take up the matter in a crucial meeting, sources said.

The pro-democracy movement achieved early success in June with the suspension of the proposed bill that would have allowed the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to mainland China.

On Tuesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, urged Hong Kong authorities to exercise restraint and investigate evidence of its forces firing tear gas at protesters in ways banned by international law.

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