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MANILA, PHILIPPINES – Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda will begin an official visit to India from 17 October to mark 25 years of development partnership between India and ADB.

New York: Cape Verde is the latest Member State to accede to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) that prosecutes individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

New York: Experts attending a United Nations conference in the Republic of Korea on reversing desertification today focused their attention on the “landcare approach” to sustainable land management, a community-based way designed to improve people’s livelihoods while protecting natural resources.

New York: A United Nations expert today welcomed Mexico’s promulgation of a constitutional reform that recognizes the right to food in the country, and urged authorities to implement measures to give all Mexicans access to this human right.

New Delhi: A comprehensive Social Security Agreement (SSA) was signed by the Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs and Civil Aviation, Vayalar Ravi and the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Germany, Dr. Ursula von der Leyen in Berlin, signalling enhanced cooperation on social security between the two countries.

New York: The Human Rights Council completed its first review of the records of every Member State on Thursday, with Haiti being the last country to be considered in the process, which examined records of each State for the past four years.

New York: An independent United Nations human rights expert today welcomed the decision by Myanmar’s President to grant amnesty and release a significant number of detainees and urged the Government to free the remaining political prisoners.

New York: More than 550,000 children in some of the most vulnerable districts of Iraq will benefit from a United Nations-backed school feeding programme that seeks not only to improve their nutrition but also to encourage poor families to send their children to school in the first place.

New Delhi: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has found child labourers rampant in the Bt cotton fields of Shihori and Khimana in Banaskantha district in Gujarat.

New York: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is helping farmers in eastern Kenya make the necessary investments today to withstand drought and prevent food security crises tomorrow.