Pakistan receives heavy - often destructive - rains during its annual monsoon season, which are crucial for agriculture and water supplies. But a downpour as intense as this year's not ...
ZURICH: Switzerland has summoned the Chinese ambassador to express concern about the human rights situation in the western region of Xinjiang, the foreign ministry in Bern said on Thursday (Sep ...
"FORETASTE OF THE FUTURE" At the global scale, there has been a reduction over the past two decades in the total burned area, as a result of decreasing numbers of ...
GENEVA: Sri Lanka must immediately reverse its "drift towards militarisation" and prosecute those responsible for leading the country to its unprecedented economic crisis, the United Nations said on Tuesday (Sep 6). ...
Days after Heyzer's visit dozens of Myanmar civil society groups dismissed her trip as the "latest evidence of the historical ineffectualness" of UN envoys, and criticised her meeting with junta ...
SEOUL: North Korea's foreign ministry criticised a new United Nations human rights expert as "biased", saying the country will not tolerate what it called US-led efforts to topple the isolated ...
Beijing hit back hard against the report - over a year in the making - and maintained its firm opposition to its release, sharing an over-100-page document from the Xinjiang ...
An appeal to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is "well short of needs", the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday (Aug 23), as refugees called on donors not ...
BEIJING: It is "reasonable to conclude" that forced labour of members of minority groups has taken place in China's western Xinjiang region, the UN's top expert on slavery said in ...
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