India at UNHRC: backs resolution on Afghanistan; votes for EthiopiaUnder the resolution, UNHRC has appointed a special rapporteur to monitor the situation of human rights in Afghanistan and present a writte...
09 Oct, 2022, 11.33 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 hits out at Pakistan, OIC for raising Kashmir issue at UN Human Rights CouncilExercising India's rights to respond to comments made by Pakistan and the OIC on Kashmir, Badhe said it does not need lessons from a "faile...
15 Sep, 2021, 04.48 PM IST
Lankan president says his govt will not succumb to UNHRC pressureThe UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution against Sri Lanka's rights record on March 23, giving the UN body a mandate to col...
28 Mar, 2021, 10.00 PM IST
Pakistan fails to get support in UNHRCPakistan has failed to secure the support of minimum 16 nations to move a resolution on Kashmir in the 47-member UN Human Rights Council (U...
20 Sep, 2019, 07.23 PM IST
India flays Pakistan at UNHRC, against any foreign interferenceEarlier in the day, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, levelled allegations and made unsubstantiated claims that Jammu and Kas...
10 Sep, 2019, 11.41 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 on diplomatic drive to win over 13 European states of UNHRCEuropean countries seen as make-or-break bloc to defeat Pakistan resolution on Kashmir issue.
07 Sep, 2019, 09.31 AM IST
European envoys informed about Kashmir situationIndia’s move coincides with Pakistan approaching the Genevabased United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for “a resolution against Indi...
03 Sep, 2019, 06.43 AM IST
Pakistan is very scared since Modi's Baloch comments, says Baloch activist"Pakistan's military and establishment have intensified military operations in many Baloch areas in recent weeks," the activist said.
17 Sep, 2016, 11.25 AM IST
India set to say no to UN Human Rights Council's request to visit KashmirIndia has pointed out that domestic human rights panel was already at work while Parliament and the Supreme Court had also discussed the si...
15 Aug, 2016, 06.10 AM 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
DMK president urges PM Modi to move resolution in UN against genocide in Sri LankaDMK president M Karunanidhi today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider moving a resolution in the UNHRC against Sri Lanka over al...
13 Feb, 2015, 04.16 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
- 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