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Pakistan Army targeting civilians in an operation in Balochistan: BRP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb. 26 (ANI): Central Spokesman for Baloch Republican Party Mohammad Bugti, has said that the Pakistani Army's continuous military operation throughout the past week has set a new example of brutality in history.
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Baloch leaders to meet President Donald Trump
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb.4 (ANI): Exiled Baloch political leaders and activists have confirmed that they will soon be meeting United States President Donald Trump to seek termination of American military and Economic aid to Pakistan in view of Islamabad's widespread abuse of the Baloc
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IOM to launch displacement tracking system in Afghanistan as humanitarian
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan. 28 (ANI): The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is launching a new displacement tracking system in Afghanistan to better understand population movements and needs amid concerns of a severe humanitarian crisis induced by sudden return home of hundreds o
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UN yet to confirm on postponement of Syrian conflict talks
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], Jan. 27(ANI): The United Nations on Friday said that there has been no confirmation that talks on the Syrian conflict planned for February 8 in Geneva have been postponed as earlier announced by Russia.
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UN rights expert warns about possible reprisals in Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan. 25 (ANI): The United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, has warned about possible reprisals against the people she met during her recent visit to Myanmar from January 9 to 21.
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UN calls on Pakistan locate and return four disappeared social media campa
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan.13 (ANI): The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of expression, David Kaye, has called on authorities in Pakistan to locate, protect and return home four disappeared human rights and social media campaigners on priority.
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World's jobless to rise amid economic uncertainty, growing inequality
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan. 13 (ANI): The United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO), which released its 2017 World Employment and Social Outlook on Thursday, finds economic growth trends lagging behind employment needs and predicts both rising unemployment and worsening social in
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Final trial results confirm Ebola vaccine provides high protection against
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Dec. 24 (ANI): An experimental Ebola vaccine was highly protective against the deadly virus in a major trial in Guinea, according to results published today in The Lancet.
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WHO steps up response in Aleppo, demands protection for health personnel
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Dec. 14 (ANI): With conditions in Aleppo continuing to deteriorate as thousands of people are fleeing from the violence-hit area, the World Health Organization (WHO) alongside United Nations and other partners is working to provide care in the midst of conflict and to a
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Malaria remains acute public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa: WHO rep
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Dec. 14 (ANI): Despite major progress in the fight against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains an acute public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 90 per cent of the world's malaria cases, according to an annual flagship report by th
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Human Rights Day: Bloch activists across world protest against Pakistan, C
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva/ London/Berlin, Dec. 10 (ANI): To mark International Human Rights Day, Baloch political activists across world - including the U.K., Canada, Australia, South Korea, Germany and many other European nations - held protests against atrocities committed by the Pakistani establishment on t
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Europe faces threats of 2008 Mumbai-style terror attacks
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland] Nov. 25 (ANI): European nations are vulnerable to the 2008 Mumbai-style terror attacks by Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), whose tentacles were found spread in the continent by security agencies, especially after last year's deadly Paris
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