Ottawa: The discovery of an unmarked burial site at a Kamloops, B.C. residential school has sent shock waves across the world, which experts say will have a lasting negative impact on Canada's reputation as a leading human rights defender. William Schabas, a professor at Middlesex University

Dhaka: Raouf Mazou and Gillian Triggs, assistant high commissioners at the UN refugee agency, spoke to the media in Dhaka after a meeting with Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen following their trips to Bhasan Char and refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. Mozou, the UNHCR assistant high

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday said Pakistan attached huge importance to its trilateral mechanism with China and Afghanistan for enhancing cooperation and coordination in the areas of shared interest. In his virtual address at the 4th China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue, the foreign

New York: Amid a perceptible shift in India’s Middle East policy, Palestine has expressed concern at India’s abstention during a vote at the UN Human Rights Council that resulted in the setting up of an inquiry into rights violations during the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza. Palestine’s

New York: The UN General Assembly has dismissed the India’s reaction over UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir’s remarks on Kashmir wherein he had said that “Pakistan’s duty to bring the issue of Jammu and Kashmir more strongly to the UN” saying that his remarks

Cairo: The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned of "staggering health needs" in the Palestinian after Israel bombarded the Gaza strip last month. "WHO is scaling up its response to provide health aid for almost 200,000 people in need across

Geneva: The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed more than 100 million more workers into poverty, the UN said after working hours plummeted and access to good-quality jobs evaporated. And the labour market crisis created by the pandemic was far from over, the UN’s International Labour Organisation warned

New Delhi: India announced on Thursday 134,154 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, while deaths from the coronavirus rose by 2,887. The country's total COVID-19 caseload now stands at 28.4 million, while total fatalities are at 337,989, according to data from the health ministry. Due

Tehran: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that a breakthrough in talks in Vienna to revive a nuclear deal before he leaves office in August required a "will" beyond his power. Rouhani is Iran s main architect of the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, which was