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  India abstains from voting on UNHRC resolution against Israel's Gaza operation

  World | July 04, 2015 14:31 IST

  New Delhi: India for the first time on Friday abstained from voting on a resolution on Palestine adopted at the UN rights body that calls for accountability by parties involved in last year's conflict in

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  India to seek re-election to UNHRC next month

  World | September 23, 2014 11:42 IST

  United Nations: India will seek re-election to the United Nation's main human rights body for a second consecutive term in a vote to be held next month.India is currently a member of the 47-nation UN

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  Syrian families in Lebanon suffer food insecurity, says UNHCR

  World | August 17, 2014 9:49 IST

  Beirut: About 74 per cent of the Syrian displaced families suffer a certain amount of food insecurity, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lebanon said on Saturday.In a report titled ‘Evaluation of vulnerability

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  UN Human Rights Council appoints panel for Palestine inquiry

  World | August 13, 2014 9:52 IST

  Geneva: The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) chief Baudelaire Ndong Ella announced a three-member panel to investigate the human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly in the conflict-torn Gaza Strip.Ella appointed Canadian William

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  New Delhi should have supported resolution against Sri Lanka: FM

  Politics | March 28, 2014 14:14 IST

  Chennai: Differing with his government's stand of abstaining from voting in UNHRC on the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today said New Delhi should have supported it.  “It is my personal

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  US responsible for Lanka's successive UNHRC defeat: Peiris

  World | December 07, 2013 21:34 IST

  Colombo: Some countries had to support the UN resolutions against Sri Lanka over its human rights records due to factors which affected their bilateral relationship with the US, External affairs minister GL Peiris said today.Answering

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  U.N. resolution on Sri Lanka: India to decide after studying final draft

  India | March 18, 2013 19:36 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 18: Amidst stepped up pressure by southern parties to vote against Sri Lanka at the U.N., the government on Monday said the “call” will be taken after studying the final draft of

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  Sri Lanka hopeful of Indian backing at UNHRC

  World | March 13, 2013 17:32 IST

  Colombo, Mar 13: Sri Lanka Wednesday said it remained hopeful of India's backing against a US sponsored resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.Sri Lanka's Foreign Secretary Karunatillaka Amunugama told Xinhua that

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  Centre "closely monitoring"situation in Sri Lanka: Narayanasamy

  India | March 02, 2013 16:31 IST

  Chennai, Mar 2: The Centre was “closely monitoring” the situation in Sri Lanka and was taking all steps for the safety of Tamils living there, Union Minister V. Narayanasamy said on Saturday.“India was closely monitoring