Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy served as UN Under Secretary General and as Special Representative of the Secretary General on Children and Armed Conflict from 2006 until her retirement in 2012. Earlier, from 1994 to 2003, she was the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, an independent expert attached to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, while located in Sri Lanka. In 2017 she was appointed to the UN Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar and also appointed as a member of The Secretary General’s Board of Advisors on Mediation.
Leaders of the United States, Japan, Australia and India are expected to meet in Manila on Tuesday for the first summit of the four-nation Quad grouping in two years, with critical minerals,
Hungarian authorities have recovered nearly $20 million in cash, including banknotes buried in forests and concealed in farm buildings, warehouses and other properties, as part of a bribery investigation involving Miklos Sesztak, a former minister in Viktor Orban’s government. The
The Philippines and Australia have signed a new defence cooperation arrangement aimed at simplifying joint military activities and strengthening security ties, as Manila expands
SpaceX has achieved a landmark in spaceflight by catching its Starship rocket in mid-air after an orbital flight, using two mechanical arms mounted on
Following is the keynote address delivered at the launch of the Junior Bar Journal on the theme ‘Law in context: Current trends and future projections’ held on 16 December We live in
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