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Venkaiah Naidu to chair governing council meeting in Nairobi from today
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): India has been unanimously elected as the President of the UN-Habitat, an organ of the United Nations' Organisation (UNO) that promotes socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements across the world, after 10 years. UN-Habitat reports to the
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US to send small team for Bonn Climate talks
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [U.S.], May 6 (ANI): The Trump administration has decided to send a 'much smaller' representative team to the United Nations Climate Change Summit talks to be held in Bonn, Germany, this year.
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UN accuses Saudi Arabia of using terror law for violating free speech
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.N.], May 5 (ANI): United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights Ben Emmerson has accused Saudi Arabia for suppressing free expression and failing to carry out independent inquiries into its Yemen bombing campaign.
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Kashmiris protest Pak move to declare Gilgit-Baltistan fifth province
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], May 4 (ANI): Scores of Kashmiris took part in a protest outside the United Nations office in Srinagar against the Pakistan Government's proposed move to declare Gilgit-Baltistan as that country's fifth province.
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The TransDisciplinary University launches innovative academic programme
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI-BusinessWire India): Do you know who offers a postgraduate programme in India in communicating science? Where can one study issues like conservation psychology, conservation finance, and multilateralism? Is there a course on quality assurance and regulatory aff
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Rohingya Muslims 'abused': Myanmar rejects UN interference
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.] May 3 (ANI): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) decision to investigate allegations of crimes and inhumane treatment by Myanmar's security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.
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BRP urges international community to stop Pak from spreading terrorism
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 2 (ANI): Condemning Pakistan's act of mutilating bodies of two Indian soldiers, Baloch Republican Party (BRP) representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Abdul Nawaz Bugti has said that this was the wake-up call for India and the world abo
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UN Global Compact calls on business to shift from incremental change to br
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 28 (ANI-BusinessWire India): "Time is of the essence," urged Lise Kingo, CEO and Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, to an audience of more than 300 local and global leaders from business, finance, civil society, Government and the UN, at
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Tillerson to chair UN Security Council meeting on North Korea today
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
United Nations, Apr 28 (ANI): The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will today hold a ministerial briefing to address North Korea's nuclear program and missile launches at the request of the US mission to the UN.
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Refugee Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini appointed youngest UNHCR Goodwill Am
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Apr 28 (ANI): First ever Refugee Olympic Team swimmer Yusra Mardini, a Syrian who fled across the Mediterranean, has been appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
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India hopes for peaceful solution to Cyprus problem
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): India hopes that a just and lasting solution to Cyprus problem, where northern part of Cyprus is under Turkish control, will be found in accordance with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution and the European Acquis.
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Poland supports India's bid for NSG membership, UNSC seat: VP Ansari
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Warsaw [Poland], April 27 (ANI): Vice President Hamid Ansari has said that Poland supports India's bid for membership in Nuclear Suppliers Group and also a permanent membership in expanded United Nations Security Council.
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