United Nations

China today put a last-minute block on a joint proposal by India and the United States in the UN to list Pakistan-based terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki as a ‘Global Terrorist’ under the ISIS and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security…
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With the fighting between Russia and Ukraine set to enter the fourth week, the United Nations on Tuesday said one child was becoming a refugee every minute due to the conflict. A spokesperson for the United Nations’ children’s agency –…
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Three in four people worldwide want single-use plastics to be banned as soon as possible, according to a poll released on Tuesday, as United Nations members prepare to begin talks on a global treaty to rein in soaring plastic pollution.…
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The United Nations said Tuesday it needed $5 billion in aid for Afghanistan in 2022 to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and offer the ravaged country a future after 40 years of suffering. In its biggest-ever single-country appeal, the UN…
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Some 2.9 billion people — 37 percent of the world’s population — have still never used the Internet, the United Nations said Tuesday, despite the Covid-19 pandemic driving people online. The UN’s International Telecommunication Union…
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The UN said Friday it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe in Myanmar amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos since a February coup. “We should all be…
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The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan “soon,” a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a secondary education but girls have not. “The…
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Articulating a broad vision of India’s role on the world stage and raising questions on the effectiveness and reliability of the United Nations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday described India as the “mother of democracy”, and said…
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India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations – Ambassador T S Tirumurti – on Wednesday said “discrimination, racial or otherwise, is being used as an excuse to take up terrorism” and called on UN bodies to ensure terrorism is not…
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