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LAHORE - United Nations selected Lahore University of Management Sciences as one of its ten partners for Academic Impact project.
In an effort to bolster 'intellectual social responsibility' for such global goals as promoting human rights, protecting the environment and ending wars, the UN had partnered with institutions of higher learning around the world in a new initiative called Academic Impact in which one goal would be associated with each educational institution.
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ISLAMABAD - In its upcoming meeting on Wednesday, the federal cabinet is likely to approve the ratification of the United Nation's Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
The optional protocol, adopted and opened for ratification and accession by the United General Assembly resolution on May 25, 2000, and enforced on January 18, 2002, was designed to achieve the purposes of the Convention on

NEW DELHI - A UN envoy on a human-rights mission this month to India on Friday called for reforms including the repeal of laws giving security forces wide powers of arrest in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK). Margaret Sekaggya, the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders, told a news conference in New Delhi that, during her 11-day tour of five Indian states, including Kashmir, she had been told of many abuses. "I heard numerous testimonies about male and female rights defenders, and

SRINAGAR - United Nations special rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya arrived in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) Wednesday to review the working conditions of human rights defenders in the disputed Himalayan region.
Sekaggya, appointed UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders in 2008, said she would submit a report to the UN Human Rights Council after her two-day fact-finding mission in Kashmir.
She told reporters in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, that she

SEOUL - South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Saturday that North Korea's new enriched uranium program should be dealt with by the United Nations Security Council, his spokeswoman said.
"The issue of North Korea's uranium enrichment program should be referred to the United Nations Security Council," Lee was quoted as saying when he met with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara.
South Korea's foreign minister Kim Sung-Hwan said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency

LAHORE - A 30-memeber delegation led by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes Pakistan's representative, Jeremy Douglas visited the office of Phoenix Foundation for Research and Development (PFRD) and lauded the NGO's work. According to a press release, the PFRD has been providing medical, psychological, detoxification services and also taking precautionary measures for female drug users and narcotic addicts under its project titled "HIV and Aids Prevention, Treatment and Care for

ISLAMABAD - Ex-ambassador and journalist Dr Maleeha Lodhi is likely to be appointed Pakistan's ambassador in the United Nation, a private TV channel reported. Lodhi had served in the UK and USA as Pakistani ambassador and as a member of UN secretary General consultation Board. She was awarded the "Hilal-e- Imtiaz" because of her best services to Pakistan.

KHARTOUM - The United Nations should publish reports on rights abuses and a humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region where violence has flared in recent months, a coalition of rights groups said on Saturday. Violence in Darfur has increased with new clashes forcing thousands more to flee their homes. Government troops have resumed hostilities with the only insurgents who signed a 2006 peace deal and there has been more fighting with other rebels.
"An important first step to

ABIDJAN - At least 210 people have been killed in Ivory Coast since a presidential stand-off escalated in mid-December, the United Nations mission in the crisis-hit west African nation said on Thursday.
At least 31 people have died since the last toll given by the United Nations Mission in Ivory Coast (UNOCI) on December 30, the mission's human rights spokesman Simon Munzu told journalists, bringing the total to 210.
The toll includes those killed during the crisis pitting

PRETORIA - South Africa will push for reform of the United Nations Security Council during a two-year stint as a rotating member of the group, a government minister said on Wednesday. "We will attempt to persuade and convince the permanent five of the need for the early conclusion of the reform process," Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana Mashabane told reporters in Pretoria.
"The power configuration is not in favour of the non-permanent members and

UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned Punjab Governor Salman Taseer's assassination calling it a blow to the country. "The secretary general condemns the assassination today of the governor of Punjab province," said UN spokesman Martin Nesirky.
Ban called the governor 'a prominent leader' whose death is a loss for Pakistan. British Foreign Minister William Hague said on Tuesday he was shocked by the assassination, adding that it was loss to the

ISLAMABAD - Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Chairman Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday urged the United Nations to move its machinery for implementing the resolutions on the Kashmir issue.
Lauding the resolution recently passed by the UN in support of right to self-determination in support of the nations subjected to occupation by other countries, the Maulana asked the world body to ensure implementation of its resolutions on Kashmir also.
In a statement, the Kashmir

KARACHI /LARKANA - President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), on Monday held Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mehsud responsible for the assassination of his wife and party leader Benazir Bhutto, while calling the UN probe into the assassination "incomplete".
Addressing a gathering at the Naudero House near Garhi Khuda Bux on Benazir's third death anniversary, Zardari said, "Baitullah Mehsud is our (leader's)

ISLAMABAD - Owing to serious security concerns, the World Food Programme (WFP) and other UN bodies may reduce their staff in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Tribal Areas in the wake of deadly suicide bombing in Bajaur agency on Thursday.
The WFP closed down its food distribution programme in Bajaur Agency after the suicide attack that killed over 40 people and it will soon go for a security review as far as its other operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other Tribal Areas are

JERUSALEM: Israel has urged the UN Security Council to issue a "clear and resolute" message to Palestinian militants against firing rockets into its territory from Gaza, in a letter made public on Wednesday.
The December 21 letter, released by the foreign ministry, comes amid rising tensions on Israel's border with the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave. On Tuesday, Israel launched a series of air strikes against what it said were tunnels, training sites and weapons facilities in Gaza

ABIDJAN - Defiant Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo dug in his heels on Tuesday under a barrage of international criticism, as the United Nations defended its hard-pressed peacekeepers and threatened sanctions.
Both Gbagbo and his rival Alassane Ouattara claim to have won last month's Ivory Coast presidential election, but UN monitors and almost all of the world community recognised the challenger and has demanded Gbagbo step down.
Furious, the 65-year-old strongman ordered

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday informed the National Assembly that in contrast to India's demand to allocate it a permanent membership in the UN Security Council, Pakistan is not vying for the slot at all.
"Let me say at the outset that Pakistan is not seeking permanent membership of the UN Security Council," said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a written reply to a question raised by Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Member