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UNWomen launches HeForShe Campaign in India

New Delhi, India: A press release by UN Women, dated: 17th October 2014 says that the UN body for women is launching the HeForShe campaign in India during the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Delhi ) Rendezvous Festival in which this year’s theme is SHE, a social awareness campaign.

Nawaz Sharif raises Kashmir Issue in UN General Assembly; UN chief offers help to find solution

New York, USA: After a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif the UN chief Ban Key Moon said that the world body was willing to play a role-if so asked-in resolving the Kashmir issue

Indian films high on pervasive stereotyping, sexualisation of women, says UN Women study

New Delhi, India: The first-ever global study on female characters in popular films, launched today, reveals deep-seated discrimination and pervasive stereotyping of women and girls by the international film industry. The study was commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, with support from UN Women and The Rockefeller Foundation and conducted by Stacy L. Smith (PhD) and her research team at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Global film industry perpetuates discrimination against women: UN Women report

New York: The first-ever global study on female characters in popular films, launched today, reveals deep-seated discrimination and pervasive stereotyping of women and girls by the international film industry. The study was commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, with support from UN Women and The Rockefeller Foundation and conducted by Stacy L. Smith (PhD) and her research team at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

New global data expose acute prevalence of violence against children: UNICEF

“These are uncomfortable facts — no government or parent will want to see them,” said UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake. “But unless we confront the reality each infuriating statistic represents — the life of a child whose right to a safe, protected childhood has been violated — we will never change the mind-set that violence against children is normal and permissible. It is neither”.

Denial of Justice : 1984 genocide victims to carry “Torch Of Justice” from Delhi to New York based UN Headquarters

Amritsar , Punjab (August 15, 2014): While India’s 67 Independence day was celebrated with fervor, November 1984 Sikh Genocide victims and human rights activists have decided to go international with their quest for justice. Being constantly denied justice, the victims of 1984 violence launched the "Torch of Justice" after paying obeisance at Sri Akal Takht Sahib, the highest temporal seat of Sikhism.

United Nations (UN) Human Rights Chief to speak out on caste-based rape and violence

According to a press release sent to the Sikh Siyasat News by International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN), [o]n Tuesday 17th June the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Navi Pillay, will give the opening statement at a side-event on caste-based violence against women, at the UN Human Rights Council. The event comes following a series of brutal rape cases against Dalit women and the rape and hanging of two teenage cousins in India.

Sikh bodies urge United Nations (UN) to set up probe tribunal for crimes committed by Indian forces in June 1984

New York, United States (June 11, 2014): It is learnt that six Sikh organizations have submitted a complaint to United Nations' human rights body seeking a tribunal to investigate crimes committed by the Indian government during June 1984 army attack on Darbar Sahib and other Sikh Gurdwaras. They have also urged the UN to condemn the army attack.

Sikh Federation UK establishes links with Secretary General at Amnesty International

London, United Kingdom (May 22, 2014): Salil Shetty, the current Secretary General at Amnesty International last week released a report ‘Thirty years of broken promises’ to mark the United Nations adoption of the Convention Against Torture in 1984.

Dal Khalsa condemns Indian government for not supporting UN resolution against Sri Lanka

Hoshiarpur, Punjab (March 29, 2014): Sikh body, Dal Khalsa, on Friday criticized the Indian government for not supporting the US backed UN resolution seeking credible, independent and international probe into war crimes and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka.

To seek UN attention in pursuit for justice, Dal Khalsa HR secretary met UN Human Rights Officer in Geneva

Amritsar, Punjab (March 26, 2014): Adding the Sikh perspective to the US sponsored UN resolution calling for credible independent investigation against war crimes committed in Sri Lanka, the Dal Khalsa said the blood of innocent Sikhs spilt in the precincts of Darbar Sahib Amritsar in June and the streets of Delhi in Nov 1984 beside extra-judicial killings in Punjab too cries for justice and demands attention of the international community.

Special Report: UN Human Rights Expert Slams Denial of Self-Determination

Geneva (March 26, 2014): At a sideline event at the UN in Geneva, the UN’s Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Professor Alfred de Zsyas expressed his personal support for the revitalization of the role of self determination as a principal means of settling international disputes.

“Impunity represents a challenge in India” – UN Special Rapporteur 2013 Report; SFJ supports US prosecution of Devyani

New York, United States (December 29, 2013): “Sikhs For Justice”, a US based human rights group while supporting the prosecution of Indian deputy counsel general Devyani Khobragade, welcomed the 2013 report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, which highlights that impunity represents a major challenge in India.

Complaint on Sikh detainees reaches U.N. working group

New Delhi, India (December 22, 2013): According to a news reported by The Hindu: [a] complaint by the Sikh rights group, Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), on release of Sikh political prisoners from Indian Jails after expiry of their term has been forwarded by the U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions.

UK Sikh body want UN to launch independent investigation into the Sikh Genocide 1984

London, United Kingdom (November 11, 2013): As per information on 1 November 2013 the Sikh Federation (UK) arranged a meeting at 11am in advance of the Justice Rally for a delegation of Sikhs to meet for one hour with staff at the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner in Palais Wilson.

A Sikh global movement for justice: Filing of petition before the UNHRC in Geneva a historicevent gives Sikhs a sense of hope

GENEVA, Switzerland: More than 10,000 Sikhs from all over the world gathered in front of the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland,to stand in solidarity on the issue of human rights violations of Sikhs in November 1984. The Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), the All India Sikh Students Federation (AISSF) and the Movement against Atrocities and Repression (MAR) organized the rally which was a resounding success.

Official Certified Copy of complaint lodged with UN Human Rights Council regarding Sikh Genocide 1984

An Official Certified Copy of complaint lodged with UN Human Rights Council regarding Sikh Genocide 1984.

1984 Sikh Killings – Thousands protest against “Genocide” of Sikhs in India; Rights Group files complaint with UN – Demands Probe into “Genocide”

Geneva, Switzerland (November 02, 2013): On the 29th year of violence against Sikhs, thousands of Sikhs who joined “Justice Rally” against Government of India for gross human rights violations committed during November 1984 and impunity to those who orchestrated genocidal attacks on Sikhs.

UN should probe the November 1984 killings as it did in the case of Benazir Bhutto’s murder

Jalandhar, Punjab (November 1, 2013): Losing all faith in the political as well as justice system of the India, the Dal Khalsa and Akali Dal Panch Pardhani (ADPP) have demanded a UN probe into the killings of Sikhs in November 1984 in various parts of India, on the pattern of the UN probe done in the case of the killing of former Pakistani President Ms. Benazir Bhutto.

Dal Khalsa writes to UN Women focusing on plight and pain of Sikh women victim of Nov 1984 massacre

Amritsar, Punjab (October 30, 2013): According to information available with the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN) Sikh organization “Dal Khalsa” has approached the ‘UN Women’ focusing on the plight, pain and agony of the Sikh women victim of November 1984 massacre in Delhi and elsewhere in India.

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