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Ready to engage with Tamil diaspora for reconciliation talks, says Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa

Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said that he will engage with the Tamil diaspora for reconciliation talks to resolve the country's internal problems and would not hesitate to grant presidential pardon to Tamil youths in jail for LTTE links

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Keep politics out of the Games, says Thomas Bach

The Olympic movement needs to be kept neutral and cannot be expected to solve civil liberties issues that politics had failed to fix, Bach said in a video message to the UN Human Rights Council.

Benjamin Netanyahu terms UN Human Rights Council decision to probe abuses in Palestinian areas as 'shameful'

The UNHRC is set for an open-ended international investigation into violations committed during the latest Gaza violence, and 'systematic' abuse in Palestine

Mike Pompeo says China, Russia, Cuba getting elected to UN Human Rights Council is a 'win for tyrants'

Pompeo, justifying the US' 2018 decision to leave the UNHRC, said that the election of the three countries was an indication of why we were right to leave that body

China, Russia, Cuba get seats on UN Human Rights Council despite opposition over abysmal records; Saudi Arabia misses out

Human Rights Watch and others said Riyadh continues to target rights defenders and has demonstrated little accountability for past abuses, including Jamal Khashoggi's killing

Shah Mahmood Qureshi asks UN to launch probe into situation in Kashmir, says threat of 'genocide' looming over state

Shah Mahmood Qureshi also said that the top UN rights body should not be embarrassed on the world stage by its inaction over the Kashmir issue.

Over 100,000 detained and missing in Syria, says UN; holds Bashar al-Assad-led govt responsible for crisis

Reports suggest more than 100,000 people in Syria have been detained, abducted or gone missing during the eight-year conflict

Pakistan welcomes UN rights office's report on Jammu and Kashmir, says situation in PoK not same as Gilgit-Baltistan

Pakistan on Monday welcomed the UN rights office's report on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir.

Climate apartheid: rich adjust to climate change but poor suffer the consequences

A UN report states that climate change could leave 140 million people from the developing world homeless by 2050.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urges countries to repatriate families of Islamic State fighters

The United Nations rights chief called on countries to repatriate family members, including some 29,000 children, of suspected foreign fighters in Syria.