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Women-led protest in Kabul turns violent; Taliban resorts to tear gas
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 4 (ANI): A protest led by women rights activists in Kabul turned violent after Taliban forces prevented them from marching towards the presidential palace.
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North East Delhi violence: Umar Khalid's lawyer terms Delhi Police charges
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 3 (ANI): Student activist Umar Khalid's lawyer on Friday called the charge sheet filed by Delhi Police under the charges of UAPA in a larger conspiracy case as a script of Amazon Prime show 'Family Man', having no evidence to support the allegations.
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Women hold protest in Taliban-controlled Kabul for decision-making roles i
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 3 (ANI): A group of Afghan women activists staged a protest in Kabul on Friday, seeking equal rights and to ensure decision-making roles for them in political life in the country that has been taken over by the Taliban.
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Tibetan activists protest outside China's UK embassy on International Day
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], August 31 (ANI): Tibetan activist groups in the UK observed the International Day of the Disappeared in London on Tuesday by raising slogans outside the Chinese Embassy to 'Release Political Prisoners'.
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Social worker Niket Patel gets Rajiv Gandhi Global Excellence Award
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 31 (ANI/PNN): Rajiv Gandhi Global Foundation has honoured Congress leader, All India Congress Committee member and social activist Niket Sunilbhai Patel with the "Rajiv Gandhi Global Excellence" award for his social service.
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Global campaign launched to combat climate change by overhauling the World
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 31 .(ANI/BusinessWire India): Activists around the world are today calling on governments to put food systems at the forefront of tackling the climate crisis. The campaign for a 'Plant Based Treaty' will create bottom-up pressure for leaders to negotiate
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Taliban hunt for woman scribe who opposed the terrorist group
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 30 (ANI): Saira Saleem, a women's rights activist and journalist who earlier raised her voice against the oppression of the Taliban informed that the terrorist group's members are searching for her.
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Bangladesh Social Activist Forum hit out at Pakistan-Taliban nexus
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Dhaka, [Bangladesh], August 29 (ANI): The Bangladesh Social Activist Forum (BSAF) has hit out at the nexus between Pakistan and Taliban by calling it a threat to regional peace and development at an event in Dhaka on Saturday.
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EU asks member states to offer safe legal pathways out of Afghanistan for
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 26 (ANI/Sputnik): EU member states should come up with safe legal pathways for people who are particularly at risk, such as female judges and human rights activists, to travel from militant-controlled Afghanistan to Europe, Eric Mamer, the chief spokesman for the E
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Activist writes to CJI seeking justice for deceased who self-immolated in
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 26 (ANI): Activist Yogita Bhayana has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana requesting appropriate and expeditious steps to establish justice on the recent horrific incident in which a man and woman allegedly self-immolated
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'Extinction Rebellion' climate change activists block Central London on 2n
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK] August 24 (ANI/Sputnik): Hundreds of people on Tuesday blocked roads around Parliament Street and Whitehall, in central London, on the second day of the Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest to demand urgent actions from governments to tackle climate change, a Sputnik correspondent r
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Delhi HC directs NTCA to decide representation seeking protection of biolo
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) to decide the representation made by the petitioner Gaurav Kumar Bansal, practising lawyer and activist sought the protection of biological diversity at Corbett Nation
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