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UN to declare gender apartheid as mental health of Afghan women worsens

The U.N.'s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on women and girls gender apartheid, the head of the U.N. agency promoting gender equality said Tuesday. Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, told the Security Council that more than 50 increasingly dire Taliban edicts are being enforced with more severity including by male family members. That is exacerbating mental health issues and suicidal thoughts especially among young women and is shrinking women's decision-making even in their own homes. They tell us that they are prisoners living in darkness, confined to their homes without hope or future," she said. Under international law, apartheid is defined as a system of legalized racial segregation that originated in South Africa. But a growing consensus among international experts, officials and activists says apartheid can also apply to gender in cases like that of Afghanistan, where .

At UN, North Korea says accuses US of fomenting an Asian NATO: Report

North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of making 2023 an extremely dangerous year, saying its actions are trying to provoke a nuclear war and denouncing both U.S. and South Korean leaders for hysterical remarks of confrontation that it says are raising the temperature in the region. Kim Song, North Korea's U.N. ambassador, also said Washington was trying to create the Asian version of NATO, the military alliance that includes European nations and the United States and Canada. Kim came out swinging in his speech to world leaders with harsher words than he brought to the same U.N. General Assembly meeting last year. Such strong language is always noteworthy from a nation developing its nuclear program but is also hardly uncommon from Pyongyang, a government that sometimes weaponizes hyperbole in its public statements. Owing to the reckless and continued hysteria of nuclear showdown on the part of the U.S. and its following forces, the year 2023 has been recorded as an ...

Days of a few nations setting agenda are over: EAM Jaishankar at UN

Speaking at the 78th annual session of the UNGA, Jaishankar said the international order is diverse and must cater for divergences, if not differences

Indian envoy to UN highlights ongoing situation in Myanmar at HRC session

Pandey on Tuesday highlighted the ongoing situation in Myanmar and said that the displacement of people has led to an influx of Myanmar nationals into India

India is seen as solution provider, one that bridges divide: EAM Jaishankar

Jaishankar who was speaking at the G2O University Connect event stressed that the G2O summit hosted by India this year reflected its commitment to undertaking global skill demography

EAM Jaishankar to address 78th United Nations General Assembly today

The EAM is in New York to lead the Indian delegation at the 78th UNGA

High rice prices, fueled by export ban, bring risk of social unrest: UN

The export ban is bringing back memories of 2008, when a global rice crisis put 100 million people at risk, many in sub-Saharan Africa

EAM meets UN leadership, discusses India's G20 Presidency, UNSC reforms

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed India's G20 Presidency as well as situations in Afghanistan, Myanmar, and other global challenges during their meeting here Monday. Jaishankar posted on X that it was a pleasure to meet Guterres at the UN Headquarters. Discussed how India's G20 Presidency has contributed to strengthening @UN's sustainable development agenda. We have coordinated closely in this regard over the last year, Jaishankar said. He voiced appreciation for the Secretary General's strong commitment to reforming International Financial Institutions. A readout issued by the UN spokesperson's office of the UN Secretary-General's meeting with Jaishankar said that the UN chief expressed appreciation for India's cooperation with the UN and its leadership of the G20. The Secretary-General and the Minister discussed the situations in Afghanistan, Myanmar, and other global challenges. Jaishankar began his day with a meeting wit

17 measures undertaken by NGOs, communities in India contributing to SDGs

Strong belief in Indian approach to achieve sustainable development was underlying tone of high-level meets organised by Reliance Foundation, ORF, UN India office, Permanent Mission of India to UN

India's journey towards SDGs serves as example of determination: Kamboj

The G20 summit under India's Presidency put the Sustainable Development Goals front and centre and underscored the dedication to accelerate their implementation, New Delhi's envoy here has said, emphasising that India's journey towards SDGs serves as an inspiring example of determination and ingenuity. Speaking at the India Roundtable: Delivering Development: Journeys, Directions and Lighthouses', organised on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly here on Friday, India's Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said that India's dedication to accelerate SDG implementation was made clear. India's journey towards the SDGs serves as an inspiring example of determination and ingenuity. As we navigate the challenging path ahead, let us draw strength from the commitment made at the G20 Leaders' Summit in September 2023. It is there that our collective resolve was reaffirmed, and our dedication to accelerating SDG implementation was mad

Still a world of double standards: External Affairs Minister Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that it is still a world of double standards and those countries which are occupying positions of influence are resisting the pressure to change and those with historical influence have weaponised a lot of those capabilities. Jaishankar was speaking at a Ministerial Session titled South Rising: Partnerships, Institutions and Ideas' hosted by the Observer Research Foundation, in collaboration with the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations, United Nations India and the Reliance Foundation. I think more than political will, there is political pressure for change," he said here on Saturday. There is a growing sentiment in the world and the global South in a way embodies it. But there's also political resistance, he said. Those who are occupying positions of influence, we see this in the UN Security Council most of all, are resisting the pressure to change. "Those who are economically dominant today are leveraging their product

Jaishankar holds bilateral with Mexico's Foreign Minister on UNGA sidelines

India-Mexico relations have consistently been friendly, warm and cordial, characterised by mutual understanding and growing bilateral trade and all-round cooperation

India partners with UN to share development experiences with Global South

Initiative was announced at event titled "India-UN for the Global South--Delivering for Development" in New York on 23 September 2023 in the presence of the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar

Key for Global south to be active participants in shaping decisions: Kamboj

Kamboj recalled that India during the Covid-19 pandemic extended a helping hand by providing made-in-India vaccines to nearly 100 countries and supplying medicines to 150 nations

India to be partner, collaborator in addressing development challenges: EAM

He emphasised that geopolitical calculations and geopolitical contests today are affecting the basic requirements of many nations, including their affordable access to food, fertilizers and energy

Nearly 2 million people in Afghanistan face acute food insecurity: UN

The organisation said that 41 million people in Afghanistan face severe food insecurity at an alarming level

Yemen's southern leader renews calls for separate state at United Nations

The head of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council, an umbrella group of heavily armed and well-financed militias, has said that he will prioritise the creation of a separate country in negotiations with their rivals, the Houthi rebels. Aidarous al-Zubaidi's comments, in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday, come days after the conclusion of landmark talks in Riyadh between the Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, which leads a coalition fighting them in the country's civil war. The remarks signal that his group might not get on board for a solution without inclusion of a separate state's creation. Al-Zubaidi has a dual role in Yemeni politics he is vice president of the country but also the leader of a separatist group that has joined the internationally recognised coalition government seated in the southern city of Aden. His trip to the high-level leaders meeting of the UN General Assembly was aimed at amplifying the call for southern separatism, which has taken a backseat

India calls Pakistan patron to largest no of proscribed terrorist at UNGA

India has strongly hit out at Pakistan after its caretaker leader raked up Kashmir in his address to the UN General Assembly, with Delhi saying the home and patron to the largest number of proscribed terrorist entities in the world should take credible action against perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks instead of engaging in technical sophistry. First Secretary in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Petal Gahlot exercised India's Right of Reply in the UNGA after Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar raised the Kashmir issue in his address at the General Debate during the high-level 78th session of UNGA on Friday. Pakistan has been the home and patron to the largest number of internationally proscribed terrorist entities and individuals in the world. Instead of engaging in technical sophistry, we call upon Pakistan to take credible and verifiable action against the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks, whose victims await justice even after 15 years, Gahlot

Britain uses UN speech to show want to be a leader on how world handles AI

Britain has pitched itself to the world as a ready leader in shaping an international response to the rise of artificial intelligence, with Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden telling the UN General Assembly his country was "determined to be in the vanguard". Touting the United Kingdom's tech companies, its universities and even Industrial Revolution-era innovations, he said Friday that the nation has "the grounding to make AI a success and make it safe". He went on to suggest that a British AI task force, which is working on methods for assessing AI systems' vulnerability, could develop expertise to offer internationally. His remarks at the assembly's annual meeting of world leaders previewed an AI safety summit that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is convening in November. Dowden's speech also came as other countries and multinational groups including the European Union, the bloc that Britain left in 2020 are making moves on artificial intelligence. The EU this year passed ..

78th UN General Assembly: EAM S Jaishankar begins nine-day US visit

To meet with counterparts from US and other nations, American biz leaders, host India-UN event on global south