By Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Aug 29 2023Sri Lanka will have a low profile approach to the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) scheduled to start next month, Daily Mirror learns. The UNHRC adopted the resolution 51/1 on Sri Lanka last year. The resolution calls for the Office of the High Commissioner to enhance its monitoring and reporting on the situation of human rights in Sri Lanka, including on progress…
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REPORT IN THE EXPRESS Tribune, AUG 18, 2023WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch on Thursday said Pakistan was fully determined to protect and promote the constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms of the individuals belonging to religious minorities. In a statement, she said as a country of law and constitution, Pakistan could not accept the intolerant and violent acts in yesterday’s incident in Faisalabad. The statement came as the United States on Wednesday had…
REPORT IN THE EXPRESS Tribune, AUG 18, 2023WASHINGTON/ ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch on Thursday said Pakistan was fully determined to protect and promote the constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms of the individuals belonging to religious minorities. In a statement, she said as a country of law and constitution, Pakistan could not accept the intolerant and violent acts in yesterday’s incident in Faisalabad. The statement came as the United States on Wednesday had…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, June 19, 2023A UN expert said on Monday that the Taliban’s treatment of Afghan women and girls may amount to gender apartheid, given how severely the de facto authorities of the country continue to violate their rights. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed similar concerns on the opening day of the Council’s summer session, adding that the de facto authorities had “dismantled the most…
By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews, June 02, 2023 at 9:42 PMIranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in an interview with an Iranian news agency said that Iran has water rights on the agenda and is pursuing the issue legally and politically. He added that Hassan Kazimi Qomi, Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan, had discussed the issue with Islamic Emirate officials. The Iranian foreign minister, speaking about the recent border conflict, said “these conflicts did not have…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, June 1, 2023The head of the women’s rights division at Human Rights Watch said, on the one hand, the Taliban are persistently pleading for recognition and inflow of international aid, and on the other hand, they continue to intensify repressing Afghan women and girls. Heather Barr, interim co-director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch on Wednesday said on Twitter that the Taliban are reluctant for meaningful…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, May 24, 2023Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US special envoy for Afghanistan reconciliation, said on Wednesday that Iranian leaders must not threaten Afghanistan over water rights. Khalilzad said on Twitter, “Taliban authorities are being surprisingly restrained and statesmanlike over the issue. They acknowledged the treaty while arguing that the lower amount of water is due to drought and climate change.” He also said that the Taliban authorities had…
by Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, May 24, 2023A syndicate has been smuggling people from Bangladesh to nations such as Italy, France, and America under the pretense that they are employees of a non-governmental organisation. As employees of the non-governmental organisation known as the “Protection for Legal and Human Rights Foundation,” they used to request authorisation from the UN headquarters to attend conferences. The syndicate member would apply for a visa at the…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press Online, May 16, 2023International media has reported the United Nations agencies including UNICEF, World Health Organization and WFP have failed to protect the rights of their female Afghan employees under the Taliban administration in Afghanistan. The London-based news agency Tortoise Media has recently highlighted in one of its reports titled “UN betrays women in Afghanistan” that the organization does not protect its Afghan female employees against gender apartheid…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, May 16, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said on Monday that Nepal will pursue an independent foreign policy based on the principles of sovereign equality, non-interference, mutual respect and benefit. Briefing the Kathmandu-based diplomatic community for the first time after assuming the office on December 25, the prime minister stated that “friendship, mutual respect, and cooperation continue to guide Nepal’s external engagements.” “Protection and promotion of national interest is our…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, May 16, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said on Monday that Nepal will pursue an independent foreign policy based on the principles of sovereign equality, non-interference, mutual respect and benefit. Briefing the Kathmandu-based diplomatic community for the first time after assuming the office on December 25, the prime minister stated that “friendship, mutual respect, and cooperation continue to guide Nepal’s external engagements.” “Protection and promotion of national interest is our…