"Human rights violators in all corners of the world should understand that the United States is committed to support and defend human dignity and justice for those who stand up against oppression,” U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in his recent statement on the State Department 2014 Country Reports on Human Rights.
The annual report released later last month highlights that around the world, the suppression and violation of human rights is often employed by authoritarian regimes.
"As Russia slid deeper into international and economic isolation, the Putin regime intensified its crackdown on human rights defenders, including intolerance of any form of opposition and the silencing of independent media and civil society... In China, the government continued to employ pervasive ethnic discrimination, severe religious repression of Tibetan Buddhists and Uyghur Muslims, and increasing suppression of civil society, in the name of the fight against separatism, religious extremism, and terrorism," he noted.
The government in Azerbaijan, he added, 'continued to repress its critics – harassing and imprisoning dissenters for attempting to express their beliefs.'
“Tragically, 2014 also demonstrated the severity and pervasiveness of anti-Semitism and prejudice in the world today. Intolerance, expressed by anti-Semitic violence, racism, or xenophobia, takes many forms and wears many faces,' he noted.
For Senator Cardin, governments, globally, must work to eliminate this intolerance, and the United States must be ready to support this process in every way possible.
“I applaud the work of our U.S. embassies and Foreign Service officers abroad for the difficult work of chronicling human rights conditions around the world, often in countries where governments are reticent to acknowledge that such abuses take place. Now, we must do our part challenge these governments to uphold fundamental human freedoms, and signal to human rights defenders that their brave efforts are not in vain," he noted. -25D-
Politics
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On November 18, during COP29 in Baku, a press conference was held with European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Hoekstra. Turan Agency asked her: How can the EU assist in the implementation of projects for transporting green energy from Azerbaijan to Europe?
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On November 18, a single-person protest took place in the "Green Zone" at COP29. The protest was held by Ismail Djafarsoy, a technical staff member at the event. Djafarsoy claimed that the rights of over 500 workers were being violated, as they had not been paid their wages. According to him, workers hired for the month of November were promised a daily payment of 20 manats.
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Sevinj Vagifgizi, the chief editor of Abzas Media, who is being held at the Baku Pre-Detention Center-1, injured her hand while protesting the closure of windows in her cell, her lawyer, Agil Laidj, who visited her on November 18, said.
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President Ilham Aliyev received Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Leonid Slutsky on 18 November.
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