The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said a foreign UN worker was killed and five others seriously injured Wednesday by an Israeli strike on their headquarters, as the Israeli army denied hitting a UN building. A statement from the health ministry said there was “one death and five severe injuries among foreign staff working for … Read more
Iran has significantly escalated its efforts to enforce mandatory hijab laws on women, leveraging cutting-edge technology to monitor and punish those who defy the strict dress code. A recent United Nations report sheds light on the alarming extent of Iran’s reliance on technology to surveil and control women’s behavior. At the heart of this crackdown … Read more
The World Bank is under fire after its officials racked up a carbon footprint equal to the annual emissions of 350 cars while travelling to a United Nations climate summit in Azerbaijan last November, The New York Post has reported. A leaked attendee list showed 254 World Bank officials took jets to the oil-rich nation … Read more
United Nations: Underlining the need for more transparency in workings of the UN Security Council’s subsidiary bodies, India said details about rejecting or putting on hold requests to blacklist terror entities are not made public and are the exclusive preserve of a select few, calling it a “disguised veto”. India’s Permanent Representative at the UN … Read more
Geneva: At the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of UN Human Rights Council, India said that Pakistan was a failed state surviving on international handouts. Kshitij Tyagi, Permanent Mission of India to the UN in Geneva, further said that it was unsurprising to see their leaders continue the spread of falsehoods handed down by … Read more
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend US overseas funding could result in millions more deaths from AIDS, the head of the UN’s programme for the illness warned Sunday. The United States is the world’s largest provider of official development assistance, with most funds directed through the United States Agency for International Development … Read more
Our gender is identical to our sex, written in our genes, can be clearly assigned and does not change over our lifetime. That’s what many people say. The woman on one side, the man on the other ― you’re either a princess or a knight, with nothing in between. And you certainly have no say … Read more
New York: The Permanent Mission of India in New York announced on Tuesday that India has once again been included in the ‘Honour Roll’ of the United Nations (UN) for paying its regular budget assessments in full within the 30-day period specified in the Financial Regulations of the UN. In a statement, the Mission said, … Read more
Washington DC: US President Donald Trump has ordered an end to America’s engagement with several United Nations (UN) agencies, including the Human Rights Council (UNHRC), while initiating a comprehensive assessment of US financial assistance to the multinational organisation. The White House also extended a halt to funding for the Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA) and ordered … Read more