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UN food agency moves to support families affected by Israeli attacks on Gaza

Posted on May 18, 2021 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, Responding to rising humanitarian needs brought about by the escalation of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, the World Food Programme (WFP), a Rome-based UN agency, Monday began providing emergency assistance to support families, amid fears of low food stocks and rising prices. […]

UN chief ‘deeply disturbed’ by Israeli strike on Gaza building that housed media outlets

Posted on May 16, 2021 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “deeply disturbed” by the Israeli airstrike Saturday that destroyed a 12-storey Gaza City building, his spokesman has said. Spokesman Stephane Dujarric’s comments came in response to reporters’ questions as Israel unleashed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, killing […]

UN rights chief appeals for de-escalation amid alarming situation In Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel

Posted on May 16, 2021 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, Ahead of Sunday’s emergency United Nations Security Council meeting to address the escalating violence between Israel and the Palestinians, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet appealed to all sides to take steps to de-escalate the increasingly alarming situation in the region. […]

Economic recovery under threat amid surging coronavirus, lagging vaccination in poorer countries: UN

Posted on May 12, 2021 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, :While the global growth outlook has improved, led by robust rebound in China and the United States, surging coronavirus infections and inadequate vaccination progress in many countries threaten a broad-based recovery of the world economy, according to the latest United Nations (UN) forecast. […]

KGC urges WHO and UN to ask India to release Kashmiri political prisoners from overcrowded COVID-riddled Indian jails

Posted on May 6, 2021 by News Desk

MIRPUR [AJK]: Kashmir Global Council (KGC), a US based Kashmiri political advocacy group has urged upon the WHO and UN must ask Indian government to release Kashmiri political prisoners from overcrowded Indian jails to prevent the spread of Covid-19, stop the Amarnath religious pilgrimage in […]

UN slams deadly attack at guesthouse in Afghan city of Puli-e-Alam

Posted on May 2, 2021 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, The United Nations strongly condemned Friday’s suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan, in which at least 21 persons were killed and over 100, including women and children, wounded. According to media reports, a vehicle laden with explosives detonated near a guesthouse on Friday evening […]

UN’s women’s status commission to be held digitally

Posted on March 16, 2021 by News Desk

The 65th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which will be organized at the UN headquarters in Belgium’s capital Brussels, will be held mostly online from March 15-26 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Zehra Zumrut Selcuk, Turkey’s family, labor and social services […]

US seeks UN rights council seat after Trump pullout

Posted on February 25, 2021 by News Desk

Geneva – The United States is seeking a return to the UN Human Rights Council, three years after former president Donald Trump’s administration withdrew, the US top diplomat told the rights body Wednesday. “I’m pleased to announce the United States will seek election to the Human Rights Council […]

7,000 flee western Ethiopia fighting: UN

Posted on February 24, 2021 by News Desk

Geneva – Around 7,000 people have fled rapidly-escalating communal violence in western Ethiopia, seeking safety in neighbouring Sudan, the United Nations said Tuesday. The region has long been plagued by competition over land and resources, and the UN said many people arriving in Sudan are […]

Turkey urges India to end curbs in Kashmir

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Sana Hasan

GENEVA: Turkey on Monday raised the Kashmir issue at the United Nations Human Rights Council, with a call for resolving the decades-old dispute on the basis of UN resolutions and the “legitimate” expectations of Kashmiri people who are struggling for their right of self-determination. “We […]

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