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World marks World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

The United Nations has said the blockade could spark the largest famine the world has seen in decades

The rights group interviewed 52 Rohingya women and girls, including 29 rape survivors, three of them girls under 18

Russia vetoed bid by US, Britain, France to impose sanctions over chlorine attacks

Khawaja Asif presents Pakistan’s national report on Universal Periodic Review before Human Rights Council in Geneva

Government troops targeted civilians on ethnic grounds and displaced more than 100,000

104 cases of illegal detention and torture in Rwandan military detention centres between 2010 and 2016 were reported

State Department official open to diplomatic talks for solving North Korean crisis

Afghanistan, Myanmar and India are also seen as failing to reach the target by varying degrees

Experts urge government to expedite implementation of necessary laws

According to report, coalition was responsible for 683 of total 1,340 child casualties last year in Yemen

Report for UPR to be submitted by Nov 15

'Benazir was brutally murdered by people who actively rejected the values that we at the United Nations stand for'

Yemen conflict has killed more than 8,500 people, wounding nearly 49,000

Cabinet discusses steps to eradicate load-shedding by November this year

Emmy-nominated animated TV series has won global accolades since its 2013 launch

Says Islamabad open to dialogue so long as Delhi desists from subversion

Minister urges UN to take notice of India's 'barbaric actions' in wake of civilian casualties in ceasefire...

Nobel Laureate also met other world leaders to discuss promotion of female education globally

Trump used the words 'sovereign' or 'sovereignty' 21 times

Faltering progress imperils efforts to end child labour by 2025

Vice President of GE calls on PM Abbasi

Trump notes personal history with the New York-based institution

Trump's "America First" agenda has alarmed both allies and foes

In his debut address before world leaders, PM Abbasi will outline Pakistan’s positions on key issues

Trump decided in June to withdraw United States from Paris accord

7,123 Pakistani soldiers are deployed for seven UN peacekeeping missions

ICJ sets September 13 and December 13 for filing of memorial by India and counter-memorial by Pakistan respectively

UN agency warned situation was so dire that Gaza Strip could become uninhabitable by 2020 without efforts to rebuild

Multiple organisations took to streets to protest against genocide in Myanmar

We should not ask a child forced to flee her home to also give up her education and her dreams for the future: Malala

UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein says Myanmar is waging a "systematic attack" on Rohingya Muslims

Venezuela's crisis has caused food and medicine shortages, unrest and calls for President Nicolas Maduro to quit

UN mulls additional sanctions as isolated state plans additional missile tests

Yemen has been wracked by violence since Arab Spring protests in 2011 led to war in 2014

More than 26,500 civilians have died and nearly 49,000 injured as a result of armed conflict since January 2009

Pakistan will have to answer for its use of the death penalty and the manner in which it executes

The terror outfit was banned by Islamabad last year

Move comes despite strong opposition from global nuclear powers including Pakistan

Maleeha Lodhi stresses on addressing growing imbalance between core and non-core financing of UN Development System

World body is to organise a function on Sept 21 for promoting peace

UN High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein is concerned by the demand that Qatar close down the Al Jazeera network

Suu Kyi has been criticized for failing to stand up for the more than 1 million stateless Rohingya Muslims

Guterres extended his condolences to families of victims and wished injured speedy recovery

PML-N Legislator Hina Pervez Butt demanding the federal government to resolve the Kashmir issue

'Higher incomes do not automatically lead to improved outcomes for all children and may indeed deepen inequalities'

It is not yet clear whether the ICAO council would agree to intervene

Pakistan third largest contributor of military and police personnel to UN peacekeeping

UN organises photo exhibition with KMC to bring out human stories

Hunger-strike by the prisoners was into its 38th day