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Rights activists in Istanbul voice out against women rights violations in
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 30 (ANI): Amid rising atrocities against Afghan women and violation of their fundamental rights, several human rights activists held a gathering in Istanbul recently and urged the international community to address their issues, especially young girls and their ac
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Activists in Turkey calls on world to focus on Afghan human rights
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 30 (ANI): A number of human rights activists in Turkey called on the international community to pay attention to women's rights, particularly girls' access to education, in Afghanistan.
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"Aap satta ke nashe mein doob gaye hain," Anna Hazare writes to CM Kejriwa
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 30 (ANI): Amid the row over Delhi excise policy, social activist Anna Hazare has written to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal slamming him for getting intoxicated with power and forgetting the ideologies and values of the movement that created the Aam Aadmi Pa
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Pakistan: Sindh activists organize event to raise awareness on enforced di
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 30 (ANI): On the international Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Jeay Sindh Freedom Movement (JSFM) has organized an event as part of an "awareness campaign".
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TDP activists being booked in false cases for questioning YSRCP workers, s
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], August 30 (ANI): Former minister and senior TDP leader Peethala Sujatha on Monday alleged that the recent National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report indicated that "there is no security for women, tribals and Dalits" under YSRCP government.
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Strong case made out against Teesta Setalvad for serious offences: Gujarat
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 29 (ANI): The Gujarat government on Monday told the Supreme Court that there is a strong case made out against the social rights activist Teesta Setalvad for some of the most serious offences whereby criminal conspiracy was hatched for and by fabricating false evide
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Pakistan clamps down on Baloch rights activist, 'taken away from Urdu Baza
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], August 28 (ANI): Pakistani authorities, who are notorious for enforced disappearances of Balochs, in the latest crackdown, took away a Baloch rights activist from his book shop in Urdu Bazaar who used to publish books and magazines.
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3 ABVP activists arrested, clash continues at Trivandrum
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], August 28 (ANI): CPM district secretary Anavoor Nagappan's House was attacked by an unknown gang during the early hours of Sunday.
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London-based activist raises concern over atrocities in PoK, says 'every p
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], August 25 (ANI): London-based rights activist Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri raised concern over the rights of the poeple of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and said that every political party needs reform.
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Activists highlight plight of man thrown out of his Muzaffarabad house by
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Muzaffarabad [PoK], August 24 (ANI): Abbas Butt, chairman of the Kashmir National Party, in a virtual interaction with human rights activist Shabir Choudhry highlighted the plight of Malik Waseem whose family was forcibly evicted from his house in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (P
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"Pak military establishment transformed country into prison-like system",
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], August 24 (ANI): Pakistani human rights activist Sanna Ejaz said that the Pakistan Army has transformed the country into a prison-like system controlled by security authorities, with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) playing a particularly central role in entrenc
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'Sexually provocative dress' observation: Govt moves Kerala HC against lo
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], August 23 (ANI): Kerala government has approached the Kerala High Court challenging the anticipatory bail granted to the author and social activist Civic Chandran in the sexual harassment case filed by a Dalit writer.
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