53rd Plenary Meeting of General Assembly 70th Session

Considering Human Rights Council reports, General Assembly discusses way forward for promoting fundamental legal protections, combatting terrorism worldwide.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 02:59:17
• Production Date: 16 November 2015
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - UNHRC
• Subject Topical: TERRORISM
• MAMS Id: 1510165
• Parent Id: 1508309

Description

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.