Modi should pay more attention to women's issues: IMF chief

United Nations calls for empowering women and girls with autism. The theme of this year's World Autism Awareness Day is "Empowering Women and Girls with Autism."

Christian women activists raised the issue of persecution of minority community by the hands of Islamic fundamentalists and the misuse of blasphemy law in Pakistan during the 37th session of human rights council session in Geneva. Speaking at a side event at ...

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that it is important to change the unequal power dynamics that underpin discrimination and violence against women."Progress for women and girls means changing the unequal power dynamics that ...

Paris, March 3 (IANS/WAM) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) aims to increase the visibility of women in the digital space by organising a global call for contributions, the "Edit-a-thon", on International Womens Day ...

[South Korea], Feb 6 (ANI): United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) President Miroslav Lajcak will visit South Korea on Wednesday to attend the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that will be held on February 9, South Korean foreign ministry ...

Thousands of students across the United States (US) walked out of their schools on Wednesday to call for action against gun violence precisely one month post the Florida shooting which claimed 17 lives.Students from more than 3,000 schools took to the streets ...

India has lambasted Pakistan for harbouring the United Nations-designated terrorists like Hafiz Saeed.Speaking at the 37th session of UN human rights council, Mini Devi Kumam, second secretary, India's Permanent Mission, said, "In gross violation of UN Security Council resolution 1267, the UN designated terrorists like Hafiz Mohammed Saeed are freely operating with State support, and the UN designated entities are being politically mainstreamed in Pakistan.""They are raising funds in flagrant ...

According to the trafficking protocol by the United Nations, human trafficking is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula after he met North Korean ceremonial leader Kim Yong-nam during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Games on Friday. Guterres met the ...