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Pak has no right to speak on Kashmir at UN: Sindh, Baloch activists
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): Political activists of Sindh and Balochistan on Tuesday called it ironic on part of Pakistan to peddle its false narrative on the Kashmir issue at the UNHRC session in Geneva when minorities in the country have been facing worsening human rights situation
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WSC holds protests outside UN while Qureshi peddles Pak's false narrative
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): At a time when Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi was presenting a false narrative on Kashmir at the UNHRC session, a protest was held outside the UN headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday against the dire human rights situation in the Sindh provin
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J-K turned into a 'caged prison': Pak minister Qureshi
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): Pakistan on Tuesday claimed that India has transformed Jammu and Kashmir into a largest "caged prison in this planet" after the abrogation of Article 370 and that the human rights were being "trampled with impunity" there.
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Geneva: Pakistan Foreign Minister mentions Jammu and Kashmir as 'Indian st
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Tuesday referred to Jammu and Kashmir as an "Indian state" following his speech at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session here.
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India-Pak set to fight it out over Kashmir at UNHRC session
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): India and Pakistan are set to battle it out over Kashmir during the ongoing 42nd UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session here on Tuesday.
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UNHRC 'disturbed' about violent protests in HK, calls for restraint and di
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 10 (ANI): UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said she was "disturbed" by incidents of increasing violence associated with the anti-government protests in Hong Kong and urged authorities to respond to any acts of violence with restraint.
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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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Geneva: Posters highlighting human rights violations in Balochistan, KP ap
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 9 (ANI): Posters and banners highlighting human rights violations in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have appeared in front of the United Nations office here during the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council.
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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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India, Pak to make statements on J-K at UNHRC session tomorrow
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 9 (ANI): India and Pakistan are slated to make statements on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir during the ongoing 42nd UN Human Rights Session on September 10.
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Indian delegation in Geneva to counter Pak's claims of human rights violat
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 9 (ANI): A high-level Indian delegation is in Geneva to hold meetings with groups and representatives of various countries to counter Pakistan's allegations of human rights violations in Kashmir.
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