UN Human Rights Council: India gets re-elected to UN Human Rights Council for 6th term with overwhelming majority. Besides, the US has also joined more than three years after the Trump administration quit the UNHRC over what it called chronic bias against Israel and a lack of reform. Human Rights Council candidates are elected in […]
Category: Important Organisations
UN Human Rights Council
UN Human Rights Council: India has been re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council (2022-24) for a record 6th term with an overwhelming majority and vowed to continue to work for the promotion and protection of Human Rights through “Samman, Samvad and Sahyog.” India’s current term was set to end on December 31 2021. The […]
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC): The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) unanimously voted for recognising a clean, healthy and sustainable environment as a Universal Human Right. If recognised by all, the right will be the first of its kind in more than 70 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was […]
International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court: The international criminal court’s new prosecutor has asked the court to relaunch an inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity committed by the Taliban and supporters of the Islamic State in Afghanistan since 2003. ICC has notified the Taliban via Afghanistan’s embassy in the Netherlands that it intends to resume an investigation. A […]
SAARC Foreign Minister Meeting 2021
SAARC: A meeting of foreign ministers from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, which was set to be held in New York on Saturday, has been cancelled. Sources report that the member states were unable to agree upon the participation of Afghanistan, with Pakistan and India in particular at loggerheads over the […]
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO): Prime Minister Modi participated virtually in the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), and through video-message in the Joint SCO-CSTO Outreach Session on Afghanistan. The 21st meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of State was held on 17 September 2021 in […]
World Bank Stops ‘Ease Of Doing Business’ Report
World Bank Stops ‘Ease Of Doing Business’ Report: The World Bank would discontinue the practice of issuing ‘Doing Business report’ following an investigation reported “data irregularities” in its 2018 and 2020 editions (released in 2017 and 2019, respectively) and possible “ethical matters” involving bank staff. It will be working on a new approach to assessing […]
What Is Collective Security Treaty Organization?
What Is Collective Security Treaty Organization? The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) is planning to hold large military drills in Tajikistan next month, amid what it described as a deteriorating situation in neighbouring Afghanistan. Tajikistan is the only country out of the six-member bloc led by Russia that shares a border with Afghanistan. Moscow has […]
BRICS Young Scientists Forum
BRICS Young Scientists Forum: Dr Renu Swarup, Secretary Department of Science and Technology highlighted the importance of cooperation, collaboration and connections for science to move forward, at the BRICS Young Scientists Forum. The BRICS-YSF summits were first hosted by India in 2016, followed by China in 2017, South Africa in 2018, Brazil in 2019, and […]
13th BRICS Summit 2021: Important Points
13th BRICS Summit: Prime Minister chaired the annual summit of the BRICS which was held virtually. The theme for the Summit was ‘BRICS@15: Intra-BRICS cooperation for continuity, consolidation and consensus’. PM’s Address: Highlighted the achievement of several new initiatives during India’s Chairship this year (2021), i.e. an Agreement on cooperation in the field of remote-sensing […]
