New York  - The UN General Assembly marked Wednesday as the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, noting that its goals remained unfulfilled while fresh global problems have aggravated living conditions for millions of people.

The short, low-key session of the 192-nation assembly at UN headquarters in New York was in contrast with the year-long activities around the world to debate whether norms included in the declaration had been carried out truthfully.

United Nations, Dec. 10: The political wing of the banned militant organization Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, could also be banned on the request of the United Nations Security Council, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, has said.

Talking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Ambassador Haroon confirmed that India has approached to UN Security Council to get Jamaat-ud-Dawa banned.

He said that Pakistan is ready to ban the suspected outfit if the UN requests Islamabad to do so, adding that the Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s bank accounts could also be freezed.

New York  - All its goals have not been achieved, but the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) remains even more relevant today than when it was adopted 60 years ago.

The United Nations will mark the mark the 60th anniversary on Wednesday of the UDHR, which came into force on December 10, 1948, in Paris, and represents the first comprehensive agreement among nations that outlined the specific rights and freedoms of all human beings.

The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said in a statement that the principles of the UDHR have been reflected in the constitutions and laws of more than 90 countries.

New York  - A public opinion poll conducted in 25 countries showed "remarkable" support for the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years after it entered into effect, WorldPublicOpinion. org said Tuesday.

A majority of residents in all the countries polled, including those ruled by authoritarian regimes, endorsed the human rights of their citizens to have freedom opinion, including the right to criticize governments, to demonstrate peacefully and to have a media free of government control.

New York  - The United States said Tuesday it was ready to strengthen the United Nations' capability to play a "central role" in fighting terrorism around the world.

The position taken by Washington's envoy to the UN, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, come days after the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India's financial centre, that killed close to 200 people.

New York  - The United Nations celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Wednesday, knowing that its provisions have remained largely unfulfilled even by the governments that promote them to their own citizens.

Human rights, along with development and security, are the three main pillars upon which the world organization has built its activities since its birth in 1945. UN founders included human rights in the organization's charter in response to atrocities committed during World War II.