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On Monday, the United Nations launched an air bridge to bring relief to flood-ravaged Pakistan. On Tuesday, the UN issued a warning that the humanitarian situation was expected to get …

Global outrage has been sparked by a United Nations study that claims China is guilty of “serious human rights breaches” and maybe crimes against humanity in its incarceration and torture …

The UN secretary-general will visit flood-hit areas of Pakistan, meet the survivors and influence the international donors to extend every support to needy people.

The UN chief noted that over 1,000 have been killed so far in what he called a “climate catastrophe.”

“Pakistan is awash in suffering,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a video message for the launch of the appeal in Islamabad and Geneva.

Turkish Foreign Minister said the change would bring to an end the process of “increasing the brand value of our country”, an initiative started by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, …

The change makes veto-holders United States, China, Russia, France and Britain “pay a heavier political price” when they wield the veto to strike down a Security Council resolution

A statement by 14 UN independent human rights experts also accused the US government of making life more difficult for Afghan women by freezing billions of dollars of central bank …

The US-initiated resolution needed a two-thirds majority of the votes cast to succeed, and it easily met that objective – 93-24 — as abstentions do not count.

Russia was the only one to vote against the decision in a 14-1 vote.