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UAE submits periodic report to UN Committee on Elimination of Racial Discr
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
The UAE has submitted its consolidated 22nd and 23rd periodic reports on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), in line with the country's human rights commitments.
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Baloch delegation urges UN to investigate human rights violations in Baloc
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Representatives from the Baloch Voice Association (BVA) and Baloch People's Congress (BPC) called for an immediate investigation in human rights violations in Balochistan, during their meeting with Stamatia Stavrinaki, a member of the UN Committee on Racial Discrimination and Torture, at the
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UN-led Doha talks with Taliban excludes women, Afghan rights activist says
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
"We're going to continue learning. We're going to continue going to schools. We're going to continue doing what we believe is best for Afghanistan. When the time is right, I'm pretty sure that the country will accept their daughters."
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UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances chief raises concern over missing
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Olivier de Frouville, Chairman of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances, voiced his apprehensions regarding the escalating number of enforced disappearances in the Balochistan province of Pakistan.
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UN committee demands China's answers on discrimination against Tibetan wom
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
In a recent meeting, CEDAW members focused on China's treatment of Tibetan women and asked for clarity on a number of topics. The majority of the committee's inquiries focused on gender equality, healthcare and educational access, political engagement, and the protection of religious and cul
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Unstable, volatile Afghanistan causes worry to UN
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Worsening human rights, in particular women's and girls' rights, poverty, hunger, terrorism and the spread of drug trafficking are among the issues that the people of Afghanistan have been facing under Taliban rule.
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Experts urge G7 leaders to call on Xi Jinping to stop colonial boarding sc
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Experts while deliberating on the subject "China's Colonial Practices and Threat to the Cultural Identity of Tibet" in an international webinar discussed various human rights issues raised recently by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).
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UN Chief urges world to support Afghan women
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Guterres while speaking at the UN Committee on the Status of Women, said that they have been "supporting schools wherever it is possible, schools with girls in the secondary level."
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India, UK ideally placed to meet challenges of digital world: UK Foreign S
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Hailing Bengaluru as the World's fastest-growing hub, he said that both India and United Kingdom believe in innovation as a force for good and to make Britain even more attractive in Tech Talent, the country is establishing its global tech development network in Bengaluru this year.
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UN committee calls for probe into Xinjiang rights violations
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Acting under its early warning and urgent action procedure, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) also called on China to immediately release all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty in the XUAR, whether in so-called Vocational Education and Trainin
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Afghan envoy demands UN committee to investigate Hazara genocide
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 23 (ANI): Afghanistan's representative to the UN, Naseer Ahmad Faiq demanded a committee to investigate and report the targeted attacks against the Hazaras, which he termed as "acts of genocide".
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Terrorists exploiting pandemic restrictions, recruiting via virtual platfo
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], January 14 (ANI): A UN committee on counter-terrorism said that terrorists and violent extremists have started exploiting pandemic-related socio-cultural restrictions and are now employing virtual platforms for recruiting and radicalizing thus pointing to the new challenges th
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