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SAARC foreign ministers to meet at UNGA
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 19 (ANI): The foreign ministers of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries will meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), as per sources.
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European experts corner Pakistan for sponsoring terror
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 19 (ANI): European academics and experts on Wednesday targeted Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism while highlighting the factual and analytical errors in the report on Jammu and Kashmir by the United Nations' (UN) Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCH
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Make guns fall silent: UN envoy to South Sudan warlords
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States of America], Sept 19 (NAN/ANI): Warring parties in South Sudan must demonstrate their willingness to a peaceful end to their conflict by "making their guns fall silent, immediately and everywhere",
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Pakistan violating UN resolutions on J-K, say Kashmiri activists at UNHRC
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 19 (ANI): Kashmiri activists have strongly criticised Pakistan for violating the United Nations resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir by plundering natural resources and carrying out human rights violations in the erstwhile princely state.
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`UN must act tough against Pak to protect rights of Baloch people`
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 19 (ANI): Human rights activists from Balochistan have asked the United Nations to act tough against Pakistan to protect the rights and lives of the Baloch people.
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Protect rights of Sindhi people, says activist to UN
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 19 (ANI): A Sindhi political activist has asked the United Nations Human Rights Office to take notice of rampant violations of human rights perpetrated by Pakistani state agencies against Sindhi people.
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Safe havens in Afghan neighbourhood harbour terror: Akbaruddin
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sep 18 (ANI): In a veiled attack on Pakistan, India's Ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin on Monday said that terror offences in Afghanistan are perpetrated by those harboured in safe havens in the country's 'neigbourhood'.
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World Sindhi Congress highlights enforced disappearances in Pak at UN meet
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 16 (ANI): A delegation of the World Sindhi Congress (WSC) held a detailed meeting with the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) in Geneva and flagged the issue of enforced disappearances in Pakistan's Sindh province.
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India raises concern over CPEC project at UN
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 15 (ANI): India on Friday raised concern over China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) at the 39th Session of the Human Rights Council here and underlined that the 'China-Pakistan Economic Corridor' (CPEC) project ignores New Delhi's core concerns on sovereignty an
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HDI report: India moves one spot higher to 130
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 14 (ANI): India has climbed one spot to 130 out of 189 countries in the latest human development rankings released on Friday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
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Tech Mahindra, GCAS launch AI challenge to combat climate change
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
San Francisco [USA]/ New Delhi [India], Sep 14 (NewsVoir): Tech Mahindra, a digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services and solutions provider, announced its partnership with the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) to launch AI4Action, the first global Artificial
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Baloch leader urges UN to address human rights violations in Balochistan
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 14 (ANI): The Chairman of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO) Sohrab Baloch urged the newly appointed United Nations (UN) High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet to address the human rights violations taking place in Balochistan.
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