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UN refugee agency seeks reversal of ban on women aid workers in Afghanista
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
More than 500 women staff work with UNHCR's 19 NGO partners in Afghanistan, serving nearly a million women and girls. The most recent restrictions will force the UN Refugee Agency to temporarily stop critical activities in support of Afghan people, especially women and children.
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Corporal punishment: Delhi govt directs schools to comply with child right
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Delhi government on Thursday directed all government-aided and unaided recognized private schools to comply with National Commission for Protection of Child Rights' (NCPCR) guidelines over 'Eliminating Corporal Punishment in schools'.
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G7 calls on Taliban to 'urgently reverse' women aid workers ban
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The G7 foreign ministers said Afghan women are central to humanitarian and basic needs operations. "Unless they participate in aid delivery in Afghanistan, NGOs will be unable to reach the country's most vulnerable people to provide food, medicine, winterization, and other materials and serv
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Time-critical programmes' in Afghanistan suffer due to ban on women staff:
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
The UN agencies in a joint statement urged the Taliban to reverse the decision banning women from working in NGOs and barring them from attending schools and universities.
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PM Modi's mother's health condition is recovering, likely to be discharged
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi's health condition is recovering, said the hospital authorities on Thursday.
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Blinken calls on Taliban to reverse ban on women working in NGOs
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Antony Blinken urged Taliban to reverse their decision of barring women from working in NGOs.
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"Work in the UN will go on...we will continue to lend our voice," Kamboj o
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Work in the UN will go on even as we exit the Security Council as we have several important bodies which deal with critical issues where we will continue to lend our voice, Ruchira Kamboj said on Wednesday on how India will shape its roadmap in the year ahead at the United Nations.
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India has noted reports of suspension of access to universities for Afghan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
India has noted reports of suspension of access to universities for Afghan women, and girls, as well as a ban on female employees of NGOs and international organizations from going to work with utmost "concern", India's Permanent Ambassador to UN, Ruchira Kamboj, said on Wednesday, adding
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India was voice of entire Global South, reinforced commitment to multilate
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Highlighting India's two-year tenure at the United Nations Security, which is coming to an end on December 31, India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ruchira Kamboj on Wednesday said New Delhi was the voice of the entire Global South, and reinforced commitment to multilateralism and
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India raised profile of UNSC counter-terrorism committee: Kamboj
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
India raised the profile of the UN Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) as the chair of this committee, said Permanent Ambassador to United Nations Ruchira Kamboj on Wednesday, as she summed up New Delhi's tenure at the UN high table.
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CAQM in NCR, adjoining areas to take stringent action against use of heavi
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Taking a tough stand against pollution arising out of emissions from heavily polluting fuels like coal from various industrial, commercial and other miscellaneous applications, the Commission for Air Quality Management in NCR & adjoining areas (CAQM) on Wednesday reminded all sectors inc
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PM Modi reaches hospital in Ahmedabad to check on mother Heeraben's health
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday arrived at the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre in Ahmedabad where his mother Heeraben Modi is admitted.
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