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Abstained on previous occasions too, position not new, says India on UNHRC
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): India's decision to abstain at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) during the resolution to probe the Gaza conflict is not new and the country has abstained on previous occasions too, External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday.
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UN calls for unhindered access to Xinjiang over China's gross human rights
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 30 (ANI): The United Nations human rights experts have expressed serious concerns over the continuous crackdowns on the Uyghur community residing in Xinjiang, calling for unhindered access to the country to conduct fact-finding missions and urging global and domes
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UNHRC adopts resolution against S Lanka; India abstains from voting
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 23 (ANI): India on Tuesday abstained from voting on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka, while calling on the island country to carry forward the process of reconciliation and address aspirations of its Tamil mino
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UN needs to step up against 'Uyghur genocide' in China: Pro-Uyghur body
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Munich [Germany], March 22 (ANI): Reiterating the need for urgent action to address the Uyghur genocide and China's threat to the United Nations human rights mechanisms, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) asserted that the UN needs to "step up" and act in line with its self-pronounced core valu
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Urdu Bulletin: Farmers' protest, rise in COVID-19 cases reported widely
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): Various Urdu newspapers in their Wednesday edition reported the farmers' appeal to United Nations Human Rights Council to interfere in the matter. Most publications also carried the news of surging cases of COVID-19 in the country.
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UNHRC must pay attention to Pakistan's deplorable human rights record: Ind
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 15 (ANI): India on Monday called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold Pakistan accountable for its state-sponsored and supported grave violation of human rights of its people, saying the UN body must pay urgent attention to Islamabad's deplorable hum
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UN expert calls on UNSC to impose global arms embargo, economic sanctions
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 5 (ANI): United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar Thomas Andrews on Thursday (local time) urged the Security Council to impose a global arms embargo and economic sanctions on the military generals and move the atrocities to the International Criminal
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'We see no contradiction between countering terrorism, protection of human
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 4 (ANI): Underlining that terrorism is an attack against human rights, India on Thursday said it has been at the forefront of global counter-terrorism efforts and does not see any contradiction between countering terrorism and promotion and protection of human rig
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'No locus standi': India at Human Rights Council rejects OIC, Pakistan's s
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 2 (ANI): India on Tuesday rejected the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) statements on the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, as it has no locus standi to comment on matters related to the region, while regretting that the OIC continues to allow it
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China restricting basic freedoms on pretext of national security, says UN
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 27 (ANI): As China continues to impose crackdowns on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and people of Hong Kong under the draconian National Security Law, United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Friday said that Beijing was restricting basic civil and po
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US seeks to regain seat on UN Human Rights Council
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 24 (ANI): President Joe Biden aims to secure a seat for the United States on the United Nations Human Rights Council almost three years after the Trump administration left the world body, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Wednesday.
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Human rights agenda continues to face severe challenges, most of all from
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Noting that terrorism continues to be one of the gravest threats to humankind and India is at the forefront of the fight against it, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that there is a need for clear realisation in bodies dealing wi
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