GENEVA, Dec 01 (APP):The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has voiced deep concern at the recent arrest of Khurram Parvez, a leading human rights defender …
Tag: OHCHR
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 09 (APP): Pakistan has rejected as "ill-timed, ill-advised and potentially counter-productive" a European Union-sponsored resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council to install a special rapporteur …
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 29 (APP): The United Nations human rights chief has urged countries around the world to take action to root out systemic racism against people of African descent …
UNITED NATIONS, June 03 (APP): The Geneva-based office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has made public a letter from five UN experts to the Indian government …
UNITED NATIONS, May 07 (APP): The UN’s human rights office (OHCHR) Friday called on Israel to immediately halt all forced evictions, including those in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of East …
GENEVA, Apr 16 (APP):A group of UN human rights experts, in a joint letter dispatched to India in February, have expressed grave concerns that the new domicile laws and other …
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28 (APP): The UN human rights office, OHCHR, Sunday strongly condemned the “escalating violence” in Myanmar after police and security forces killed 18 anti-coup protestors, and called …
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 23 (APP):Despite a drop in civilians killed and injured overall in 2020, there was a rise in civilian casualties following the start of peace negotiations in September, …
ISLAMABAD, Jan 03 (APP):Pakistan on Sunday approached the United Nations Secretary General in New York and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva to seek immediate release of …
ISLAMABAD, Dec 10 (APP): As the world observed International Human Rights Day, Pakistan reiterated its call on the international community to hold India accountable for serious crimes against the Kashmiri …