The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said in his 2021 Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World, dated 8 April and obtained by EUROPE, that the year 2021 had posed “unprecedented challenges for human rights and international humanitarian law, democracy and multilateralism”.
In his report, Mr Borrell cites the consequences of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the continuing repression in Belarus, the violence of the...