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UN committee calls for global alert on bioterrorism in COVID times
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 3 (ANI): UN bodies, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and Interpol, entrusted with the task of identifying non-state actors involved in bioterrorism, are carefully monitoring the response of terrorists to the effects of the current Covid-19 pandemic amid speculation
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Mexico: Over 95,000 registered as disappeared, says UN committee
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], November 30 (ANI): More than 95,000 people have been officially registered as disappeared in Mexico as of last Friday, according to a report by UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances.
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Afghanistan: UN committees urge Taliban to honour promises to protect wome
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 30 (ANI): Two UN Committees on Monday (local time) called on the Taliban to honour their pledge to protect Afghan women and girls, and to respect their human rights.
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India garners big victory as its candidate secures position to key UN comm
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], November 7 (ANI): In a tightly contested election at the United Nations in New York, Indian diplomat Vidisha Maitra was elected to the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) on Friday.
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China refuses to change stand on Masood Azhar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China] June 20 (ANI): China on Tuesday again made it clear that it will continue to block India on Pakistan -based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar citing disagreements in the UN Committee related to terrorism issues in this particular case.
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UN Committee concerned over enforced disappearances in Pak
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 25 (ANI): The United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) has raised serious concerns over widespread torture, enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings in Pakistan.
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UN supports better welfare for farm animals worldwide
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.18 (ANI-Newsvoir): For the first time ever in the history of the United Nations (UN), farm animals worldwide will be better protected following the adoption of groundbreaking global policy recommendations on animal welfare in farming at the UN Committee on World Food S
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India calls on Pak to extradite 'global terrorist' Dawood based
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 26 (ANI): Calling upon the Pakistan Government to pay heed to the findings of the United Nations' 1267 monitoring committee which established that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim resides and own properties in Pakistan, the India on Friday asked the Asian neighbour t
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India must now raise voice in UNSC: Ujjwal Nikam
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai, Aug. 23 (ANI): With the UN committee accepting six of nine addresses listed by India for underworld don Dawood Ibrahim in Pakistan, Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam today said it is high time for New Delhi to act against Islamabad, which has always been in a denial mode.
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