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COVID-19 driving up hunger in vulnerable countries: UN FAO
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Rome/New York, June 10 (ANI): Initial and ongoing assessments by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) provide strong indications that the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts are driving up hunger in countries that were already experiencing high levels of food insecurity prior to th
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World Sindhi Congress urges UN group to inquiry into enforced disappearanc
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 4 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC), a UK-based prominent group of the Sindhi diaspora, has requested the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) to initiate an inquiry into the secret abduction and forced imprisonment by the state of Pakista
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UN Security Council unlikely to lift sanctions over Taliban
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 29 (ANI): Days after the Afghan government released hundreds of Taliban prisoners as part of the peace deal with the United States, the UN Security Council was expected to vote on lifting sanctions over the group. But the matter has been squashed as certain conditions ma
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Keva Bain of Bahamas is new president of World Health Assembly
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 18 (ANI): Bahamas permanent representative to the UN, Keva Bain, has been elected as the president of the 73rd World Health Assembly.
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Pakistan continues to disobey UNSC resolutions on Kashmir, PoK activist in
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK] May 12 (ANI): A political activist from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), Shabir Choudhry has written to British lawmaker and Leader of Opposition, Keir Starmer, informing that Pakistan has disobeyed the UN Security Council's resolutions on Kashmir.
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Two civilian planes hit in rocket strike at Tripoli Airport
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], May 10 (Sputnik/ANI): Two civilian jetliners in Libya were damaged in Saturday shelling of a Tripoli airport by forces loyal to eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar, the UN-backed administration said.
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Trump's decision to suspend funding for WHO comes under criticism
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 15 (ANI): Russia's permanent representative to the UN office in Geneva on Wednesday criticised the US decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying that such steps do "significant damage" to the international organisation that has play
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Regret US President's decision to order halt in funding to WHO: D-G Tedros
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 15 (ANI): The World Health Organisation (WHO) has regretted the decision of US President Donald Trump to order stopping the funding to the UN's global health body.
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UNSC supports efforts concerning potential impact of COVID-19 in conflict-
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 10 (Sputnik/ANI): The UN Security Council (UNSC) expressed its support for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' efforts to mitigate the negative impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on countries already ravaged by war and called for unity and solidarity.
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COVID-19 pandemic reveals how bioterrorist attack may unfold: UN Secretary
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], April 10 (Sputnik/ANI): The lack of preparedness for the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic revealed how non-state actors could access deadly strains to perpetrate a bioterrorist attack, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council.<
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Trump attacks WHO over criticism of US approach to COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], April 9 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday (local time) stepped up attack on World Health Organisation while referring to the January 14 tweet made by the UN Health Body which claimed that there was no human-to-human transmission.
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Seven US Senators oppose position to China in UN Human Rights Council Cons
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], April 8 (ANI): Seven US Senators have written to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opposing the appointment of Jiang Duan, Minister of Chinese Mission in Geneva to the UN Human Rights Council Consultative Group and said that China should not occupy the position of
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