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US reconsidering UN council membership, urges body to end Israel 'obs
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [USA], Mar. 2 (ANI): President Donald Trump's administration has confirmed it is reviewing the United States' participation in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), warning Wednesday that it wants the body to reform its agenda and end its "obsession with Is
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Pakistan must vacate illegally occupied Kashmir: India at UN
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland] Mar., 1 (ANI): Asserting that Pakistan is a state that regards the use of terrorism as a legitimate instrument of statecraft and provides sanctuary to UN-designated terrorists, India in its reply to Islamabad's statement at the United Nation Human Rights Council (UN
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India urges UNHRC to tell Pak to introspect on terrorist attacks on its ne
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept. 26 (ANI): India on Monday urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to urge Pakistan to engage in honest introspection and focus its energies on acting against perpetrators of terrorist attacks on its neighbours from its own territory.
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Plight of Mohajirs in Pak raised at UNHRC
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept. 26 (ANI): The International Institute for Mohajirs on the sidelines of the 33rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, highlighted the plight of Mohajirs in Pakistan and how the Pakistani government continues to ostracize the community in th
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Pakistan breeding ground of terrorists, promoting 'state terrorism�
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept. 22 (ANI): Speaking at a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) seminar on 'Stop Subjugation of people for strategic designs, say no to colonisation and CPEC', Khan of Kalat H.H. Khan Suleman Khan Ahmedzai on Thursday said Pakistan is a breeding grou
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Pakistani Women protest outside UNHRC against gender-related violence
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept.22 (ANI): Pakistani Women's Human Rights Organisation organized a silent protest outside the UNHRC in Geneva on September 21, against gender-related violence and honour killing in Pakistan.
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Exploitative nature of CPEC raised at 33rd UNHRC session
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept.22 (ANI): Friends of Gilgit Baltistan, an international organization set up by a few Members of the European Parliament, held a seminar last week on the sidelines of the 33rd UNHRC session in Geneva, on the exploitative nature of the China-Pakistan Economic Corrido
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Abdul Nawaz Bugti calls on UN to take notice of custodial killings by Paki
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept. 20 (ANI): Highlighting the issue of enforced disappearances and custodial killings by Pakistani Security Forces in Balochistan, Representative of the Baloch Republican Party at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Abdul Nawaz Bugti said that the worseni
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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 'illegal': Baloch leader Marri
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept. 19 (ANI): Maintaining that Balochistan is an occupied territory by Pakistan, Mehran Marri, Baloch Representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), on Monday said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is an "illegal" project.
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UNHRC intervention in Kashmir 'unacceptable': BJP
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai, Aug. 18 (ANI): While appreciating United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) request to visit Kashmir to examine if there was any human rights violation, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said Kashmir is India's internal matter and not an area of UNHRC interve
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India should intervene in Balochistan like it did in B'desh: Mehran M
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Dubai/ Toronto, Aug. 15 (ANI): Hailing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for highlighting Islamabad's atrocities on Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Balochistan, Mehran Marri, the representative of Balochistan at the UNHRC and European Union, on Monday hoped New Delhi i
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