Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents at the regular press briefing in New York, that during the clashes, two rockets landed close to the UN peacekeeping base in Kimoka, about four kilometres northwest of Sake town, in North Kivu. No casualties on the UN side were reported, he said. The UN mission, MONUSCO, “remains deeply concerned by…
The Conference, which was established with the primary goal of fostering cooperation for mutual disarmament, has faced significant challenges in recent times. “Something looks wrong if a disarmament conference leads to no meaningful disarmament, year after year,” Secretary-General António Guterres said. “Humanity needs the Conference on Disarmament to work successfully. The paralysis and deadlock that…
Writing on the social media platform X, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that “aid was supposed to increase not decrease” to meet the huge needs of Gaza’s two million people, who are living in desperate conditions. He listed some of the obstacles to aid delivery, including lack of political will, the regular closing of the two…
More than 7,000 delegates from 182 countries are scheduled to take part in the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) which runs through Friday. Delegates are convening in the Kenyan capital as climate change intensifies, a million species face the risk of extinction, and pollution remains among the world’s leading causes of…
Its new session beginning on Monday is the longest ever, running until April, and promises a packed agenda, with ongoing wars in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, the situation of human rights defenders worldwide and more than 50 national human rights records under scrutiny. But, what does the Human Rights Council do and why does its work…
Islamabad: The High Court ordered that V Lager Asad not to be harassed and directed to conduct an investigation involving the FIA inquiry. Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Aamir Farooq heard the petition filed by V Lager Asad against the FIA notice on the charge of running a propaganda campaign against the Chief Justice…
Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva at the start of its first high-level session of the year, the UN chief insisted that any further extension of Israel’s ground operation in the south of Gaza “would not only be terrifying for more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there; it would put the final nail…
Karachi: Sessions Judge Larlana resigned from his post citing threats of dire consequences and allegations of pressure. According to sources, the Sindh High Court has received the resignation of Sessions Judge Larkana Syed Sharafuddin Shah. It has been alleged in the resignation that Munshi had threatened dire consequences for not giving a job to the…
Islamabad: During the hearing of the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanging case, the Chief Justice has remarked that the client cannot be punished for the lawyer’s conduct. The hearing on the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reference in the Supreme Court was conducted by a 9-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Qazi Faiz Isa, in…
Karachi: Addressing the Second International Palestine Solidarity Conference at the University of Karachi, the speakers demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and said that the problem of Palestine is not the problem of Arabs or Muslims, but the problem of humanity. have failed. The conference was organized by Palestine Academic Forum Palestine Foundation of Pakistan….
