India rejects UN rapporteur's 'India-based' label for Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company
Raghoo Puri said this presents member states with a fait accompli, an unfortunate situation for an organisation already facing challenges to its legitimacy
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Raghoo Puri said this presents member states with a fait accompli, an unfortunate situation for an organisation already facing challenges to its legitimacy
Deputy Secretary Barkha Tamrakar told the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee that India opposes turning “unverified allegations” into a negative characterisation, amid concerns raised by UN experts over Delhi’s youth-led protests
The UN experts said in a statement that “this crackdown reflects a broader, troubling pattern”, adding that they alerted the Indian authorities on the “undue restrictions on peaceful assembly, excessive use of force, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, and the targeting of student activists, amongst others”
The U.S. is the single largest financial contributor to the UN, paying 22% of the regular budget and 27% of the peacekeeping budget
Anuj Swarup voiced an objection to the report asserting that young people in India face retaliation or stigmatisation for discussing mental health or gender justice.
The statements had also called for detained leaders of the Joint Awami Action Committee to have access to legal representation and their families, and had called for due process and fair trial
OHCHR issues statement over police handling of protests, says restrictions must meet “necessity and proportionality” test; urges government to respect right to peaceful protest
MP Mahima Kumari Mewar, exercising India’s Right of Reply at the Fourth Committee, accused Pakistan of abusing the UN platform and said it should refrain from “preaching homilies”