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Germany urges China to allow UN officials to Xinjiang
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], Nov 25 (ANI): Germany on Monday called on China to provide access to the UN human rights commissioner and international experts to Xinjiang province amid surfacing of evidence proving Chinese authorities inflicting atrocities on minorities Muslims community in the region.
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UN official 'disappointed' with Guterres for not demanding criminal inquir
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [USA], Oct 28 (ANI): Asserting that international scrutiny of the murder of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was "absolutely required", a UN official on Sunday expressed disappointment that the world body's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres did not demand a criminal investigatio
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Khashoggi killing: UN official expected to visit Turkey for international
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 25 (ANI): The UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, is expected to visit Turkey on January 28 for an international probe into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October last year.
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Amid possible Kim-Putin meet, N Korean officials leave for Russia
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], Oct 22 (ANI): A group of North Korean officials left for Russia, amid mounting speculations that the leaders of the two countries will hold a bilateral summit, the North's state media said on Monday.
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Rodrigo Duterte needs a psychiatric assessment: UN
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein stated that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte needed a psychiatric evaluation after his government included a UN official in a list of 600 people they want labelled as terrorists.
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UN official expresses 'deep disappointment' in Aung San Suu Kyi
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], October 27 (ANI): Given the state of affairs in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state, the United Nations investigator of human rights abuses in the country expressed deep disappointment in Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi over her 'indifferent' response to the violence agai
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South Sudanese refugees take 13 UN staff hostage in DRC
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
United Nations [U.S.A.], Apr 19 (ANI): A group of 100 unarmed South Sudanese refugees have taken 13 United Nations mission staff hostage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, demanding to be moved to another country, a UN official said on Tuesday.
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UN official quits after row over her critical Israel report
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Mar. 18 (ANI): United Nations under-secretary general and the executive secretary of the commission, Rima Khalaf, resigned following row over a report on Israel which she authored.
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UN officials condemn Syria's 'barbaric' Aleppo bombardment
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C., Sept. 26 (ANI): Officials at the United Nations have branded the Syrian regime's brutal airstrikes against areas of the besieged city of rebel-held Aleppo as "barbaric."
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