Tag: Geneva

Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya to attend 76th World Health Assembly in Geneva from May 21-30

He will also meet ministers from countries including the USA, Bangladesh, Argentina, Brazil, Qatar, and BMGF

May 19, 2023

Geneva Magnificent Jewels

'The Rock' is the largest white diamond ever seen in auction market history, weighing 228.31 carats.

April 30, 2022

Buoyed by allied summits, Biden ‘ready’ to take on Putin

Biden hoping to find small areas of agreement with the Putin, including potentially returning ambassadors to Washington and Moscow

June 16, 2021

Taiwan seeks India’s support to attend World Health Assembly to fight COVID-19; China opposes

"India will soon take over the Chair of the Executive Board of the WHO after its annual meeting later this month. Taiwan cherishes the valuable relations with the Government of India and its people and hopes the relations will get further strengthened," according to Ambassador Chung-Kwang Tien, Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in India (TECC).

May 16, 2020

‘Alarming Inaction’

The declaration of a global coronavirus pandemic ~ long overdue ~ should put at rest the semantic quibbling over the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic.

March 15, 2020

Activists ask UN to break silence on genocide of Baloch

The campaign launched by BHRC, protesters said, "is a push to garner greater international awareness for the near-extermination of the people of Balochistan."

March 12, 2020

Sri Lanka reneges

Sri Lanka’s minister for Foreign Affairs, Dinesh Gunawardena, reiterated his government’s commitment to achieve sustainable peace through an inclusive “domestically designed and executed” reconciliation and accountability process.

March 1, 2020

Coronavirus: World Health Organisation issues appeal for $675 million to fight novel disease

WHO Chief hailed a $100 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced earlier on Wednesday for virus testing, treatment and vaccine research.

February 6, 2020

Imran Khan to represent Pak at first ever Global refugee forum in Geneva

According to the UNHCR, Pakistan hosts more than 1.4 million registered Afghans who have been forced to flee their homes.

December 6, 2019

Core Worries

Save for fertilizers, which reports a 5.4 per cent increase in output year-on-year, every other sector disappoints with coal representing the worst with a steep 20.5 per cent decline.

November 4, 2019

BJP confident of India’s win at UNHRC on Jammu and Kashmir

The BJP maintains that the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35 (A) from Jammu and Kashmir and its bifurcation, is an internal matter of the country which was done through a Parliamentary process.

September 9, 2019

Pak Foreign Minister to raise Kashmir issue at 42nd UNHRC session

Shah Mahmood Qureshi said he will "shake the global conscience on serious human rights abuses" in Kashmir.

September 9, 2019

North Korean prisoners killed for escape attempts: UN report

The secretary-general said the U.N. human rights office received and analyzed accounts of North Koreans who had experienced detention, the vast majority of them women who escaped initially to China

August 3, 2019

President Maduro rejects UN report on Venezuela’s human rights situation, calls it ‘false accusation’

"The report is unfortunately aligned with the media and political narrative imposed by Washington, which symbolically attacks Venezuela", the President added.

July 13, 2019

Venezuela urges UN to intervene against U.S sanctions

Venezuelan Vice Foreign Minister William Castillo said, "The sanctions met the body's definition of "unilateral coercive measures" and should be lifted, While addressing a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

July 6, 2019

Impasse at WTO

The meeting discussed the impasse in WTO's appellate body, one that could impact the existence of a Dispute Settlement Mechanism, indeed the entity's position as an effective multilateral organisation. The appellate body based in Geneva hears appeals brought by WTO members and consists of seven members. The US has blocked the nomination of new members to the entity. The two-day meeting also provided an opportunity to the developing countries and the Least Developed Countries to forge a consensus on how to move forward on WTO reforms, while preserving the fundamentals of the multilateral trading system.

May 24, 2019

Divisive growth

Ms Bachelet has expressed concern over the fact that the demands of citizens protesting against inequality are being met by “violent and excessive use of force, arbitrary detentions, torture and even alleged summary or extrajudicial killings” as in Venezuela, Sudan, Haiti and France ~ the last fountain-head of democracy.

March 11, 2019