Tag: Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein

By Arul Louis, United Nations : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has backed Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein's call for an international investigation into human rights situation in Kashmir saying that it represents the "voice of the UN". He also defended at a news conference on Thursday his own report on children in armed conflict that referred to situations in Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. He denied India's assertions that his report overstepped his mandate and that Zeid's had no mandate and said that they were both covered by...