India, Brazil abstains from UNHRC vote on Russian rights recordThe UNHRC passed the resolution presented last week by all European Union member countries except Hungary, on a 17-6 vote, with 24 abstenti...
08 Oct, 2022, 08.35 PM IST
MEA defends decision to abstain from 'Xinjiang rights abuses' voteIndia along with Ukraine, Armenia, Brazil and others had abstained during the UNHRC vote. Sources recalled China didn't take a strident ant...
08 Oct, 2022, 01.25 AM IST
India along with Brazil abstain on UNHRC vote on XinjiangThe United States and its allies last month presented the first-ever draft decision to the UHRC targeting China on Xinjiang. The draft deci...
06 Oct, 2022, 09.40 PM IST
UN begins monitoring Sri Lanka after adverse resolution at rights body, says new reportThe resolution titled 'Promotion of Reconciliation Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka' was adopted by the 47-member Human Rights ...
24 Mar, 2021, 05.24 PM IST
Chidambaram attacks Centre for abstaining from voting on UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka"India abstained from voting on the Resolution on Sri Lanka in the UN Human Rights Council. This is a gross betrayal of the Tamil people an...
24 Mar, 2021, 11.59 AM IST
India abstains during vote on resolution at UNHRC; urges Sri Lanka to fulfill its commitmentsThe resolution titled 'Promotion of Reconciliation Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka' was adopted by the UNHRC after 22 members ...
23 Mar, 2021, 09.26 PM IST
India talking to members to avoid abstentions at UNHRCIndia wants to avoid a situation where member-countries abstain en masse during the vote on Kashmir.
08 Sep, 2019, 11.31 PM IST
India's stand at UNHRC a qualitative leap in ties: IsraelThe consolations were led by Secretary (East) at Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Anil Wadhwa, and his Israeli counterpart, Director Gen...
08 Jul, 2015, 08.30 PM IST
India's abstention against vote on Israel significant shift: ExpertsThey said the move indicated a major "take off" in ties indicated also by an announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Israel.
05 Jul, 2015, 02.22 PM IST
India's abstention on UNHRC vote against Israel significant: OfficialsOfficials here said Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu had reached out to his Indian counterpart PM Modi and urged him to abstain during the UNH...
04 Jul, 2015, 11.15 PM IST
G K Vasan expresses reservation on India not voting at UNHRC against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violationsG K Vasan joined P Chidambaram in expressing reservations over India not voting in favour of a resolution at UNHRC against Sri Lanka.
30 Mar, 2014, 03.44 PM IST
India's abstention from voting against Sri Lanka was for good of Tamils: Sujatha Singh, Foreign SecretaryIndia today justified its abstention from voting on the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC, saying the decision was dri...
28 Mar, 2014, 06.46 PM IST
Voting on UNHRC resolution beginsThe voting on US-sponsored draft resolution before UN Human Rights Council in (UNHRC) has begun.
21 Mar, 2013, 03.44 PM IST
The Sri Lanka Question: India will have to balance human rights with strategic and political compulsionsMatching imperatives of human rights with strategic and domestic political compulsions is at the heart of the great game being played out i...
20 Mar, 2013, 11.50 AM IST
- Sushma Swaraj led parliamentary delegation to visit Sri Lanka
The visit, which had earlier been planned for late last year, had to be put off because of assembly elections in five states.
30 Mar, 2012, 06.47 AM IST
- Support to UNHRC resolution will not affect ties with Lanka: Vayalar Ravi
Ravi said India supported the UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka keeping in mind Tamil sentiments, but assured that it would not affect rel...
25 Mar, 2012, 10.14 PM IST
'Sri Lanka should re-think economic ties with India'A coalition partner in the Sri Lankan government said that Colombo should stop according any preferential trade treatment to New Delhi.
24 Mar, 2012, 10.29 PM IST