Search For "united nations"
British envoy launches project with Loomba Foundation to empower 2600 wido
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug 9: The Loomba Foundation, a global NGO accredited with the United Nations under DPI and ECOSOC, has announced a partnership project with the Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) and Lions Clubs International British Isles and Ireland to provide dignified livelihoods to
Read More
Swaraj to address UNGA in New York on Sept. 26
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 8 (ANI): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will address the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 26 in New York.
Read More
ISIS captures about 3,000 people fleeing violence in Iraq: UN report
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York, Aug. 6 (ANI): The United Nations has said the ISIS militants have captured up to 3,000 people displaced from their homes trying to flee conflict zones in northern Iraq, reportedly killing 12 of them.
Read More
U.N. statement on Kashmir 'serious', India must expedite diploma
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, Aug. 5 (ANI): Even as the United Nations quickly retracted from its statement that it will continue to monitor the situation in Kashmir Valley, Janata Dal (United) leader K.C. Tyagi on Friday said due to weakness of the Indian Government, Pakistan has successfully internationalise
Read More
Ex-President Rajapaksa's supporters protest against Lankan war crimes
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo, Aug. 2 (ANI): Tens of thousands of supporters of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa held a protest march accusing the ruling government of betraying the nation by agreeing with the United Nations to investigate allegations of war crimes during the civil war.
Read More
Kashmir has been 'unfinished business' for last 69 years and wil
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 29 (ANI): With Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif describing Kashmir as 'unfinished agenda' of the United Nations, Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's former envoy to the United States, on Friday said Kashmir has been an 'unfinished business' for last 69 yea
Read More
India's 'unfinished agenda' is to retrieve illegally occupi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 28 (ANI): Taking on Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for describing Kashmir as 'unfinished agenda' of the United Nations, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Jitendra Singh today said India's only unfinished agenda with Islamabad is to r
Read More
Suicide car bomb kills 10 at Somalia's UN Mine Offices
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mogadishu (Somalia), July 26 (ANI): At least 10 people were killed after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car outside the United Nations Mine Action Service offices in Mogadishu on Tuesday, a a Somali police official said.
Read More
UN report reveals horrors of war in Afghanistan, 1,601 civilian deaths in
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul, July 25 (ANI): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Monday released a report revealing that at least 5,166 civilians were killed or maimed in just the first six months of this year, of whom almost one-third were children.
Read More
UN not doing well in fighting causes of extremism, says frontrunner Helen
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington, July 21 (ANI): One of the frontrunners for United Nations Secretary General and former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has said the UN must do a better job at combating the root causes of violent extremism and global insecurity.
Read More
Charlize Theron urges youngsters to help quell AIDS by 2030
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C., July 19 (ANI): United Nations Messenger of Peace, Charlize Theron, has called upon the young generation to find solution to curb AIDS by 2030 while pointing out that young people have always 'been the drivers of social change'.
Read More
UN criticises Britain, Germany for undermining Paris climate deal
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London, June 19 (ANI) United Nations Climate Change envoy Mary Robinson has strongly voiced her concern over the United Kingdom and Germany not abiding by the Paris Climate deal.
Read More