ISLAMABAD — In special reference to occupied Kashmir, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, has criticized India for expanding the scope of its censorship tools and efforts, at the expense of individual rights to freedom of expression, access to information, ...

The United Nations says that the Myanmar military's violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear the hallmarks of genocide. The UN Special Envoy on Human Rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee told reporters in Seoul today (Thursday) that she couldn't make a definitive declaration about genocide until ...

A fresh round of Syrian peace talks under the UN umbrella begins in Vienna today, as violence continues to rage in the country. Earlier, the UN special envoy, Staffan de Mistura said that the negotiations in Vienna involving full delegations of the opposition and government come at a very critical ...

BRUSSELS - Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has demanded of the European Union to send its fact finding mission to Occupied Kashmir to observe massive human rights violations by Indian troops.He was talking to newsmen after meeting the Special Envoy of United Nations on ...

UNITED NATIONS (APP): Alarmed by escalating airstrikes and ground fighting in Yemen and along the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon once again called on all the parties to the conflict to immediately cease all hostilities and for the Yemeni parties to return to ...

RAWALPINDI: (APP) Japan’s Special Representative of UN Secretary General on Afghanistan Ambassador Tadamichi Yamamoto, on Friday called on Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif at General Headquarters.During the meeting, matters related to security situation inAfghanistan and prospects for ...

UNITED NATIONS (APP): The United Nations envoy mediating a resolution to the five-year crisis in Syria has he aims to convene a new round of intra-Syrian peace talks towards the end of August, and expressed hope that the United States and Russia would make "concrete progress" in order to improve ...

UNITED NATIONS, United States, May  21, (APP):UN special envoy for climate change nominated UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appointed former Irish President Mary Robinson and Kenyan diplomat Macharia Kamau as special envoys for El Nino and climate. The El Nino weather phenomenon, ...