“If we want a healthy world, then it needs to be a kind and welcoming one too,” said Benedict Phillips, the UNAIDS Director of Communications and Global Advocacy. That means ensuring all communities are included, especially marginalized groups, he said. However, in many countries, stigma, discrimination, and criminalization tend to make transgender people invisible, with extreme…
Security Council members reiterated strong support for the full withdrawal of the decade-old UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), and the transfer of security responsibilities to the country’s transitional Government, which has been in power since a coup in 2021. Commending the peacekeeping operation and its staff, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for the…
Speaking to the Council’s annual meeting in Geneva on protecting the rights of women and girls, the UN High Commissioner said it was an urgent task, and there needed to be zero-tolerance of gender-based violence. He highlighted the alarming reality that female human rights defenders, women journalists, and those in public office and political decision-making…
Speaking from Kinshasa, Dr. Jorge Castilla, WHO’s Senior Emergency Officer, told journalists at the regular briefing in Geneva there had been a major increase in displacement due to ongoing violence fuelled by armed groups, leaving around 7.4 million in need of health assistance. Disease and displacement Since March 2022, almost three million people have been…
In a statement released in Geneva on Friday, OHCHR Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani expressed concern over the death of 17-year-old Nahel M on Tuesday, after he was shot dead driving away from a traffic stop in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. According to news reports, at least 875 people were arrested in major cities around the…
The chief of OHCHR’s Myanmar team, James Rodehaver, explained that since their February 2021 coup, the country’s military rulers have been instilling a “climate of fear” to subjugate the civilian population, restricting aid access and using “all means” at their disposal to clamp down on civil society. Brutal tactics He said the military’s tactics had…
Violent protests that started in France last days after the death of a young man of Algerian origin as a result of police shooting continue. According to foreign media, the French government has not been able to control the violent protests that started in France after the death of a young man of Algerian origin…
There was a difference in the salaries of FC and Rangers compared to the Pakistan Army, which the Prime Minister announced to end (Photo: File). Islamabad: The Prime Minister made the salaries of FC and Rangers equal to that of Pakistan Army. According to Express News, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif gave great news to the…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that nations do not develop with loans, we are forced to take loans, people should pray that this is the last IMF program. The Prime Minister assured the people in the important press conference after the signing of the agreement between the Government of Pakistan and the International Monetary…
Karachi: Nabibakhsh police arrested 2 suspects including a police official while solving the mystery of the death of a man named Ilyas in Ramswamy shooting incident on Wednesday night. According to Express News, while solving the mystery of the death of a man named Ilyas in the shooting incident in Ram Swami Bismillah pan shop…
