UNHRC

June 20, 2021

New IT rules 'designed to empower' ordinary users of social media: India to UNHRC

The communication from United Nation Human Rights Council special branch follows a stand-off between the micro-blogging platform Twitter and the government

February 24, 2021
US seeks to return to UN human rights body

Under former President Donald Trump, the United States quit the council in June 2018 but the Biden government returned as an observer earlier this month.
February 22, 2021
Rohingya vessel in Indian waters, UNHCR calls for 'immediate' rescue

Hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingyas have been living in refugee camps in Bangladesh since they were forced out of Myanmar in a brutal military crackdown in 2017.
October 21, 2020
UN rights chief expresses concern over restrictions on NGOs, arrest of activists in India

She appealed to the Indian Government to "safeguard the rights of human rights defenders and NGOs, and their ability to carry out their crucial work on behalf of the many groups they represent.
October 03, 2019
UN refugee agency takes up case of potential stateless in India

The UNHCR is midway through a 10-year campaign to reduce statelessness worldwide, estimated by the agency in 2014 to affect 10 million people.
September 13, 2019
Pak's attempt to polarise, politicise Kashmir issue in UNHRC failed: MEA

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said it was quite 'audacious' on the part of Pakistan, a country which is 'epicentre of terrorism', to pretend to speak on behalf of the global community on human rights at the UNHRC session at Geneva.
September 10, 2019
'Fabricated narrative from epicentre of terrorism,' India slams Pakistan at UNHRC

Pakistan demanded an international investigation by the UN Human Rights Council into the situation in Kashmir.

September 10, 2019
Pakistan Foreign Minister calls Jammu and Kashmir 'Indian state' | Video

Pakistan had so far, in all its official communication, referred to Jammu and Kashmir as 'India Administered Kashmir.'