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Whale shark population declined by 63pc in 75 yrs: WTI

International shark meet to be held in Kochi on July 24

6:54 pm July 23, 2019

Kochi: Eminent researchers from across the globe working on shark trade and representatives from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations will meet here this week to discuss the priorities in monitoring shark and ray fisheries, trade and market chain assessment. The four-day international panel discussion is being organised at the Central […]

UN rights chief says troubled by Hong Kong violence

UN rights chief ‘appalled’ by conditions in US for migrants

2:01 pm July 9, 2019

Geneva: The United Nations’ human rights chief said Monday she was “appalled” by the conditions migrants and refugees face in US detention facilities, intensifying a challenge to the Trump administration’s immigration policies. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said children stopped by border agents should never be held in immigration detention facilities […]

Crowded in camps, Rohingya refugees vulnerable to virus

US calls for end to Myanmar internet shutdown

12:43 pm June 30, 2019

Washington: The United States on Saturday called for an end to a mobile internet shutdown in two strife-torn states in Myanmar, saying the cutoff undermines transparency amid clashes between the military and insurgents. Myanmar’s government last week took the unprecedented step of ordering mobile phone operators to shut down all internet data across at least […]

UN chief warns against criminal exploitation of COVID-19 recovery resources

UN to appeal for $1.2 billion to help 5 million Palestinians

2:40 pm June 22, 2019

United Nations: The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday he hopes donors will be as generous this year as they were last year after the United States cut all funding for the USD 1.2 billion programme to help some 5 million Palestinians. Pierre Krahenbuhl said at a news conference that 42 […]

Expert: UN failed before Rohingya crackdown in Myanmar

2:45 pm June 18, 2019

United Nations: An independent review of United Nations operations in the years before hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar’s military concluded that the organisation’s many bodies failed to act together, resulting in “systemic and structural failures.” The 36-page review by Gert Rosenthal, Guatemala’s former foreign minister, released Monday said […]