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United Nations reports 31 allegations of sexual abuse in 3 months

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has made fighting sexual abuse by peacekeepers and UN staff a priority of his...

4 Nov 2017 12:35 PM IST

According to sources, some Rohingya families came to UP from Jammu and Kashmir in the past two months after they started facing heat due to protests by different political outfits there.

304 Rohingyas settled in five districts of UP: Report

UNHCR has issues cards to registered refugees to ensure that they are not arbitrarily arrested or prosecuted.

2 Nov 2017 4:57 AM IST

To send back seven of around 40,000 Rohingyas, of whom about 14,000 are registered with UNHCR, seems like tokenism but thats not so.

Rohingyas in city wary of giving details, fear deportation

The police, however, denies using any form of intimidation to make the Rohingyas fill the form.

11 Oct 2018 2:23 AM IST

To send back seven of around 40,000 Rohingyas, of whom about 14,000 are registered with UNHCR, seems like tokenism but thats not so.

Rohingya move ill-advised

There has been too much of an unseemly hurry about this deportation.

5 Oct 2018 1:11 AM IST

Most Rohingya refugees in the Bangladeshi camps also say they will not return to a state where their villages have been torched and where they allege atrocities by the army and ethnic Rakhine locals. (Photo: AFP)

Give aid agencies unhindered access to Rohingya camps: UN to Myanmar

The UNHCR also called on Myanmar 'to create conditions for a genuine and lasting solution'.

24 Jan 2018 5:22 PM IST

President Donald Trump will dispatch his top diplomatic and military advisors to Pakistan in the coming weeks. (Photo: AFP | File)

UN human rights office decries Trump's sh**hole' remark as racist'

Trump questioned why the US would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to some as 'shithole...

12 Jan 2018 5:39 PM IST

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Disappointed over Kashmir human rights report criticism: UNHCR

Indian media outlets' accused report such as 'nefarious conspiracy', 'Pakistan-authored report', 'fallacious', 'mala...

18 July 2018 2:57 PM IST

Sabarimala Temple

The depths of patriarchal depravity

It is by no means only men, though, who construe menstruation as unclean , nor is the phenomenon restricted to Hindu...

10 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

18-year-old Saudi woman Rahaf Mohammed al-Qanun (2nd L) being escorted by a Thai immigration officer (R) and UNHCR officials at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok. (Photo: AFP)

Saudi teen is refugee, UN confirms, asks Australia to resettle

UN has found that a teenage woman who fled Saudi to Thailand is legitimate refugee and has asked Australia to take her...

9 Jan 2019 12:42 PM IST

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said in a statement it was closely monitoring their situation. (Photo:Twitter)

'If we go back, we will be killed': Saudi sisters ask for help

In a Twitter account called @GeorgiaSisters, the women said they were 'trapped in Georgia' after Saudi Arabia cancelled...

18 April 2019 4:45 PM IST

According to the media reports, many Rohingyas are stranded in India and Nepal after moving illegally from Bangladesh. (Photo: ANI)

More than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh get first ID cards:...

The UN refugee agency also said the registration could serve as a tool for law enforcement to help counter human...

18 May 2019 10:53 AM IST

All-Bengal Minority Youth Federation activists raise slogans during a protest against Assams controversial NRC draft in front of Tipu Sultan mosque in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Photo: Asian Age)

Those howling over NRC should read UN definition, says Tathagata Roy

Roy's remarks came in the wake of a statement by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

1 Aug 2018 1:45 AM IST