UN Human Rights Council

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi addressed Israel’s offensive on Gaza through video conferencing during a high-level segment of the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. He underscored…

An international human rights organisation warned, on Thursday, of a “sharp increase” in violence by Israeli settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories “under the political cover of the government Israel”,…

Following recurring incidents of Holy Quran burning in Nordic countries, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Monday expressed grave concern over the rise in Islamophobia. Notorious people, with their governments’…

Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran and dishonouring of the Pakistani flag in Copenhagen and said it had lodged a strong protest with the Denmark…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq welcomed the adoption of the resolution “Combating religious hatred that leads to discrimination, enmity and violence” by the United Nations Human Rights Council.…

The UN human rights office said on Thursday at least 87 people including ethnic Masalits were buried in what it described as a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur, saying…

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday approved a disputed resolution on religious hatred in the wake of the burning of a Quran in Sweden, prompting concern by Western…

The UN Human Rights Council is heading towards a divisive vote on Wednesday on religious hatred following recent Quran burnings, with some Western nations reluctantly feeling the draft resolution encroaches…

Islamabad on Tuesday termed a statement by Israel that was critical of the human rights situation in Pakistan during a United Nations (UN) session “politically motivated” and “fundamentally at variance…

The UN Human Rights Council will hold an urgent session to address the burning of the Quran following an incident in Stockholm that sparked global outrage, a spokesman said Tuesday.…

Shafaqna Pakistan: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday called Pakistan’s re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Council an “important diplomatic achievement”, Radio Pakistan reported. In a statement, he…

Shafaqna Pakistan: Pakistan was on Tuesday re-elected to the United Nations’ top human rights body for a period of three years beginning January 1, 2021, with a big vote of…

Belarus and several allies tried on Friday to block a video message from opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya at the UN Human Rights Cou­ncil, where she urged “the strongest” international response…

ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia has already executed 134 people so far this year, six of whom were children when they were arrested, a new report has revealed. The figures, given at…