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The United Nations Human Rights Council on October 9, 2024, adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, which on September 21 elected a new president, Anura [...]

THE United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has adopted a resolution calling to promote and protect the human rights of 1.9 million seafarers worldwide. The Philippine-initiated resolution, A/HRC/56/L.4, was deliberated [...]

In a seminar held on the sidelines of the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), speakers hailing from various backgrounds expressed grave concerns over the gross [...]

Pakistan has called upon the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) to avoid 'double standards' and address Kashmir dispute Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations MunirAkram in a [...]

Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) released the code of conduct aimed at promoting peace, inter-sect harmony, and tolerance throughout the country during the month of Muharram-ul-Haram. The code was developed in [...]

United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution on religious hatred following the Quran desecration incident in Sweden that promoted widespread protests across the world, especially in the Muslim [...]

THE Philippine delegation to the 51st United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Universal Period Review held in Geneva, Switzerland defended its decision to reject the recommendation of member-states for legalization [...]

President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' R. Marcos, Jr. has made the country more open to 'constructive' engagement with international bodies to address reports of local human rights violations, according to the Department [...]

JUSTICE Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Thursday said the administration of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has taken a 'deeply human approach' in its anti-illegal drug campaign with criminal masterminds [...]

'A CASE FOR INDIA'S EXPULSION FROM THE UNITED NATIONS' World Muslim Congress in collaboration with Kashmir Institute of International Relations organised a webinar titled 'UN Special Rapporteurs Communications and State [...]

The 49th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council will take place from 28 February to 1 April, 2022 in Geneva. During the Session the UN High Commissioner for [...]

Pakistan welcomes the adoption of an Organisation of Islamic Conference led resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council in response to 'grave violations of international law and human rights' [...]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, is in a condition of fear. The foreign minister Qureshi made the comments after the United Nations Human [...]

New York -- Pakistan has been re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) with an overwhelming majority. Pakistan secures 169 votes in the 193-member UN General Assembly. Elections [...]

PRESIDENT Duterte on Wednesday finally lifted the suspension of the country's signing of or negotiations for loans and grants with countries that cosponsored and/or voted in favor of the July [...]

Ambassador of China to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, paid a courtesy call on State Minister of Regional Cooperation Tharaka Balasuriya at the Foreign Ministry. The State Minister of Regional Cooperation [...]

Byline: LBO Oct 14, 2020 (LBO) -- Pakistan has been re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) with an overwhelming majority securing 169 votes in the 193-member UN [...]

THE Department of Finance (DOF) and the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) said it's still business as usual when it comes to official development assistance (ODA). Finance Secretary Carlos [...]

Islamabad -- The Foreign Office on Friday said Islamabad has initiated a number of processes to keep a sustained focus on the human rights situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir. The [...]

The government's unrelenting and unapologetic war on drugs has now taken center stage with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) voting on July 11 to adopt the Iceland-led resolution [...]

DESPITE President Duterte's venting his ire on Iceland and 'seriously considering' severing ties with that country for sponsoring a UN resolution to investigate drug-war related killings, Malacanang said on Tuesday [...]

Mirpur -- A high-level 10 - member Kashmiri delegation is leaving for Geneva on Sunday to participate in scheduled 41st Session of United Nations Human Rights Council being held at [...]

Byline: Altaf Hamid Rao Mirpur -- A side event at United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, attended by a visiting Kashmir delegation concluded that international pressure on India to [...]

Mirpur -- A high-level 7-member Kashmiri delegation, attending the ongoing 40th Session of United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, met with Special Rappoter on the situation of human rights [...]

President Duterte on Tuesday invited the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to establish a satellite office in the Philippines to monitor alleged atrocities of the war on drugs. In [...]

Byline: Altaf Hamid Rao Geneva -- The latest proposal on Kashmir dispute aim at naming UN special representative for Jammu and Kashmir. The move is in its initial stages. Several [...]

Byline: LBO June 21, 2018 (LBO) - Outgoing US Ambassador Atul Keshap has met with senior Sri Lankan officials to convey the assurance of the United States government despite their [...]

Byline: LBO June 20, 2018 (LBO) - The United States on Tuesday stepped out from the United Nations body that protects human rights around the world, saying the council, in [...]

Islamabad -- The Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Kashmir Awais Leghari on Wednesday briefed the international community in Geneva on human rights violations by security forces in India-held Kashmir (IHK). [...]

Srinagar -- All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has welcomed the statement of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) High Commissioner, Zeid Ra'ad Al Husein in which [...]

Byline: LBO Mar 24, 2017 (LBO): Sri Lanka's deputy minister of foreign affairs has expressed his appreciation to members of the Human Rights Council and observer states for the support [...]

Byline: Marvyn N. Benaning THE human-rights watchdog Karapatan has urged United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) President Joachim Rucker to prevent the scheduled execution of an overseas Filipino worker by [...]

Byline: LBO Jan 25, 2016 (LBO) - Human Rights Watch has urged the Sri Lankan government to fulfill its commitments to the UN Human Rights Council by allowing foreign judges [...]

Islamabad -- Pakistan on Thursday said it would raise the issue of US drone strikes inside its territory at the United Nations Human Rights Council. 'We will go to the [...]