Iran on Thursday accused the United States of orchestrating its removal from a UN women’s rights body over its response to protests triggered by death of Mahsa Amini. The Islamic republic has seen waves of protests since the September 16 death in custody of Amini, a young Iranian Kurd who had been arrested for allegedly violating […]
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Yemen war has killed or maimed over 11,000 children: UN
More than 11,000 children are known to have been killed or maimed in Yemen’s civil war since it escalated nearly eight years ago, the United Nations said Monday. “The true toll of this conflict is likely to be far higher,” said the children’s agency UNICEF about the casualties of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. “Thousands […]
131 civilians killed in DR Congo by M23 rebels: UN
M23 rebels killed at least 131 civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on November 29-30 according to preliminary findings, the UN mission in the country said. Authorities in Kinshasa had said that some 300 people, almost all civilians, had died in M23 attacks in the village of Kishishe in the eastern North Kivu province. […]
UN to examine India’s HR record as stakeholders blow away its smoke screen
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations is set to examine the human rights record of India on November 10 as the human rights organizations, in their reports, have already exposed its ruse of a secular polity with “serious regression” in human rights and constitutional protections under the BJP-led government. The UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review […]
Europe temperature rise more than twice global average: UN
GENEVA: Temperatures in Europe have increased at more than twice the global average over the past three decades, showing the fastest rise of any continent on earth, the UN said Wednesday. The European region has on average seen temperatures rise 0.5 degrees Celsius each decade since 1991, the UN’s World Meteorological Organization and the European […]
Unpaid wages top Qatar migrant worker complaints: UN
DOHA: Unpaid wages dominate a growing number of complaints by migrant workers in Qatar, the UN labour agency said Tuesday, 19 days from the start of the football World Cup. The International Labour Organization said the number of worker complaints more than doubled in a year to 34,425 with the launch of a new online […]
World Bank estimates floods caused $40B in damages in Pakistan
World Bank estimates floods caused $40B in damages in Pakistan. Pakistan said Wednesday that the World Bank estimates this summer’s record-breaking floods have caused $40 billion in damages in this impoverished South Asian nation. The figure is $10 billion more than an earlier estimate by the Pakistani government. Cash-strapped Pakistan was already facing a serious […]
‘Massive gaps’ seen in countries’ plans to tackle climate change
‘Massive gaps’ seen in countries’ plans to tackle climate change. The latest pledges by countries to tackle global warming under the Paris Agreement are “woefully inadequate” to avert a rise in global temperatures that scientists say will worsen droughts, storms and floods, a report said on Wednesday. The 2015 pact launched at a U.N. global […]
UN Chief lambasted Modi govt on human rights record
UN chief Antonio Guterres chided India during a visit Wednesday over its human rights record, which critics say has regressed under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since Modi came to power in 2014 in the Hindu-majority nation of 1.4 billion, campaigners say persecution and hate speech have accelerated against religious minorities, especially India’s 200-million-strong […]
At UN, Pakistan hits back at India, calling it terrorism’s ‘principal’ perpetrator in South Asia
UNITED NATIONS: A Pakistani diplomat has categorically rejected India’s allegations about Pakistan’s involvement in terrorist acts, citing instances of the Indian sponsorship of terrorism and aggression against all its neighbours that makes New Delhi the “principle perpetrator, sponsor, financier and abettor” of terrorism in South Asia. “The myth of terrorism against Pakistan, created and propagated by […]