THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

Saudi Arabia fails in bid to join United Nations Human Rights council

Saudi Arabia was the only country up for election that failed to be elected, mustering only 90 votes. Human rights groups hailed the snub t...

Western nations rebuke China at UNHRC over human rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong

Speaking during the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday (local time), John Fisher of Human Rights Wat...

Pak’s sole objective is to distract attention from human rights violations: India at UNHRC

Geneva (Switzerland): While exercising India's Right of Reply in response to Pakistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in...

India pulls up Pakistan, Turkey & OIC at UNHRC meet for comments on internal matters

First secretary, Permanent mission of India in Geneva Pawan Badhe who delivered India's right to reply said: "We reject the reference made ...

Chinese Communist Party more assertive, demanding & confrontational: US-Europe report

This report summarizes changing U.S. and European views of, and relations with, China. It is the outgrowth of a symposium convened in Berli...

India, EU open new chapter in strategic partnership strengthening rules-based order

PM Narendra Modi informed the EU leadership about the latest development regarding this incident with China. The EU supported all the effor...

Closely monitoring developments in Hong Kong that houses large community: India

This is part of the 44th session of the Human Rights Council being held between 30 June-21 July in Geneva.

In addition to propaganda, China uses trade to coerce compliance with its dictates: US NSA

The top Trump administration official, in his address to a group of people at Phoenix in Arizona, said that China's efforts to control the ...

India lambasts Pakistan PM Imran Khan at UNHRC over CAA remarks

India on Wednesday lambasted Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan for his "unwarranted and gratuitous comments" on the "impending refugee cri...

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya names elder brother Mahinda as PM

Gotabaya will also need a national budget for 2020 by April with the current government having only approved an interim budget for the firs...

Stay away from other nations' internal affairs: Saudi, India

India & Saudi Arabia have expressed rejection of all terrorist acts and stressed the need to prevent access to weapons including missiles a...

Disappointed over NRC being wrongly linked with issue of minority rights: India at UN

First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Paulomi Tripath said updating the National Registrar of Citizens (NRC) is a statutor...

Balochistan, PoK activists protest Pakistan atrocities

The ‘Stop Baloch Genocide’ poster campaign, organised by the Baloch Human Rights Council at the Broken Chair monument area in Geneva, coinc...

Pakistan fails to prove claim of 58 nations’ support on Jammu & Kashmir

ET has reliably learnt that Pakistan had failed to submit this list of as per deadline in the earlier part of this week.

Afghan civil society groups target Pakistan Army at UNHRC session in Geneva

Addressing the 42nd session of UNHRC, Bilal Sarway called the Afghan insurgent group Haqqani Network as the "veritable arm" of Pakistan's I...

Pakistan fails to get support in UNHRC

Pakistan has failed to secure the support of minimum 16 nations to move a resolution on Kashmir in the 47-member UN Human Rights Council (U...

Pakistan faces heat at UNHRC over religious discrimination; blasphemy laws

Islamabad may face major embarrassment at the UNHRC after an NGO submitted a petition at the session against enforced disappearances, with ...