Judges at the International Court of Justice on Wednesday ruled that the UN body has jurisdiction to hear a claim by Iran to recover $1.75 billion in assets frozen by Washington.
Tag:
united nations
-
-
A United Nations report, on Wednesday, revealed that around 43 per cent of North Korea’s population is “food insecure”, with one out of five children facing “chronic malnutrition”.
-
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the “historic leadership” of Palestine which assumed the chairmanship of G77, the global body’s largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries including India.
-
A third of United Nations employees have reported experiencing sexual harassment at the world body over the last two years, according to the findings of the first-ever survey on such misconduct released.
-
India’s creative goods exports nearly tripled from USD 7.4 billion in 2005 to USD 20.2 billion in 2014, making it one of the world’s leading exporters of such products in the top 10 developing economies, according to a UN report.
-
The United Nations has found that a teenage woman who fled Saudi Arabia is a legitimate refugee and has asked Australia to take her in, officials in Canberra said Wednesday.
-
United Nations: Expressing concern over the deteriorating situation in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State, a senior UN…
-
Raising awareness on the importance of Braille for approximately 1.3 billion people living with some form of distance or near vision impairment, the United Nations observed the first official World Braille Day Friday.
-
United Nations calls on stakeholders to ensure inclusive and transparent Bangladesh polls
by PTIby PTIUnited Nations, Dec 22 (PTI) Ahead of Bangladesh’s general elections next week, the UN has expressed concerns over incidents of electoral violence and arrests of opposition members and called on all stakeholders to ensure inclusive and transparent polls.
-
Katowice: The world is “way off course” in its plan to prevent catastrophic climate change, the…