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Paris Keswani founder of New York-based non-profit organisation to assist
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 4 (ANI/GPRC): Paris Keswani, a philanthropist and human rights activist based in the United States, has partnered with the New York-based non-profit organisation Great Giving Charitable Foundation Inc to help impoverished children, displaced orphans, battered mothers,
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Akhil Gogoi demands Article 370-like special status for Assam
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Sivasagar (Assam) [India], May 4 (ANI): Activist and Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi on Wednesday demanded the implementation of the Article 370-like provision in Assam for the "Constitutional safeguard" of the indigenous people of the state.
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Palestine calls on UNSC to stop Israeli activists' planned incursion into
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Ramallah [Palestine], May 4 (ANI/Xinhua): Palestine on Tuesday called on the United Nations Security Council to stop Israel from escalating tensions against Palestinians after Jewish activists reportedly decided to break into a holy mosque in East Jerusalem.
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Anti-abortion activist climbs 60-storey tower in San Francisco, detained
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
San Francisco [US], May 4 (ANI): Amid the ongoing protests in the US after the apparent leak of a US Supreme Court order overturning a ruling on abortion rights, an "anti-abortion" activist on Tuesday (local time) climbed a 60-storey tower in San Francisco, before being rescued and subsequen
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Moradabad activist Arvind Goel distributes 1,000 mud pots to give birds wa
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 2 (ANI/GPRC): May has just started. But the rapid soaring of temperature has already summoned dry hot wind which is singing the mother Earth with scorching heat and evaporating all available sources of clean water making survival a Herculean Task for both humans and an
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CPEC alienates people in Gilgit Baltistan, advances Chinese interests: Rig
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], May 1 (ANI): As China continues to advance its hefty projects in Gilgit-Baltistan, regional experts have contended that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is only advancing Chinese interests in the region and alienated the people of illegal occupied region.
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Former Pak Dy Speaker Suri lodges FIR after being attacked by 'PML-N activ
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 29 (ANI): Pakistan's former Deputy Speaker of National Assembly Qasim Suri has filed an FIR with Islamabad police on Friday after being allegedly attacked by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) activists in Islamabad over derogatory slogans raised against Pakista
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Activists keep focus on Xinjiang access as UN rights chief preps for China
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [US], April 29 (ANI): The planned visit to China by the United Nations high commissioner for human rights should meet minimum standards to be considered credible, several rights groups have said.
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Balochs are sacrificing their lives due to Pakistani oppression: Baloch wo
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], April 29 (ANI): Distressed by a recent incident of a 30-year-old Baloch woman teacher blowing herself and killing four people, including three Chinese at Karachi University, a Baloch woman activist calls it a consequence of Pakistan's oppressive policies and genocide in Bal
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Uyghur internment camp survivors demonstrate outside UN office in Geneva
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 27 (ANI): Uyghur activists, many of whom are survivors of the internment camps set up by China in the Xinjiang region on Monday demonstrated for a week outside the United Nations compound in Geneva demanding a meeting with the UN human rights chief, a media report
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Sedition charges slapped against 87 persons in Pakistan
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 27 (ANI): At least 87 people, including 25 women, were detained in Jamshoro district of Pakistan's Sindh province on sedition charges, according to local media on Wednesday.
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Pakistani dissidents call for diffusing ethnic and religious conflicts
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 27 (ANI): Prominent Pakistani intellectuals, journalists, and activists have called on the Shehbaz Sharif government to focus on diffusing ethnic and religious conflicts in the country.
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