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Fiji wins presidency of UN rights body after vote unblocks leadership impasse

UN Human Rights Council Feb 2020

Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Fiji, the favourite of Western nations, won the presidency of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, beating Bahrain and Uzbekistan in a secret ballot that resolved a tense deadlock over the selection. The vote was called after an impasse that meant the council, the only intergovernmental global body to promote and protect […]