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India criticises UNHC for filing intervention application in Supreme Court
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 3 (ANI): The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Tuesday criticised the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) for filing intervention application in the Supreme Court over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that was enacted late last year.
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India asks UN rights body to develop better understanding before jumping t
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Feb 28 (ANI): India on Thursday encouraged the United Nations' human rights body to develop a "better understanding and appreciation" of the freedoms and rights that are guaranteed and protected daily in a vibrant democracy like India before coming to any conclusions
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Israel freezes ties with UN Rights Chief
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], Feb 13 (ANI): Israeli Foreign Ministry on Wednesday (local time) announced that the country is freezing ties with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights after the OHCHR published a blacklist of companies cooperating with Jewish settlements in t
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UN rights expert welcomes ICJ ruling on Myanmar to protect Rohingyas
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [USA], Jan 23 (Sputnik/ANI): UN human rights expert Yanghee Lee has welcomed the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) ruling that Myanmar must protect the Rohingya minority but emphasised that allegations of crimes against the community remain to be addressed, the Office of the Hi
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UN Human Rights Chief expresses concern over situation in Bolivia, says it
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Sucre [Bolivia], Nov 17 (ANI): Head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet on Saturday expressed concern over the crisis in Bolivia saying it could spin out of control.
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India raises Pak-sponsored terrorism in J-K with UNHRC chief
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 12 (ANI): A high-level Indian delegation led by MEA Secretary (East) Vijay Thakur Singh on Thursday met UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and briefed her on the issue of Pakistan's continued efforts to destabilise the situation in Jammu and Ka
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China, Pak only countries to raise Kashmir at UNHRC; Indian delegation mee
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 12 (ANI): As Pakistan and China remain the only two countries to make references on Kashmir at the UNHRC meet, a high-level Indian delegation led by MEA Secretary (East) Vijay Thakur Singh met with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, here on T
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Climate change a global threat to human rights: Bachelet
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday said that climate change is a rapidly growing and a global threat to human rights and underlined that incidents like forest fires raging in the Amazon is "burning up our future"
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Amazon fires: UN rights chief calls on Amazonian countries to implement lo
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 9 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on the South American countries of Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil to ensure the implementation of longstanding environmental policies to prevent future tragedies of the scale of recen
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Deeply concerned over lockdown in Kashmir: UN rights chief Bachelet
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 9 (ANI): United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday said that she was "deeply concerned" over the "impact of recent actions" by the Indian government on the "human rights of Kashmiris" including the detention of political leaders
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Brazil accuses UN human rights chief of meddling in state affairs
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Rio de Janeiro [Brazil], Sept 5 (ANI/Xinhua): Brazil on Wednesday (local time) criticised the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet for her remarks on alleged police violence and erosion of democracy in the South American country.
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Conclusions in 2nd UN report on J-K grossly incorrect, biased and heavily
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], July 13 (ANI): Netherlands-based think tank European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) tore into the Second Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights' (OHCHR) Report on Jammu and Kashmir, labelling its conclusions as "grossly incorrect,
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