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Pashtuns hold protest at UNHRC against Pakistan army for abducting and kil
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): Despite COVID-19 restrictions, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) Europe organised a protest in front of UNHRC headquarters in Geneva to condemn gross human rights violations in Pakistan.
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Pakistan wants to make Gilgit Baltistan its province to save CPEC project,
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): A political activist from Gilgit Baltistan has said that Pakistan is forced to make occupied Gilgit Baltistan as its fifth province as the multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project passing through the region is in the doldr
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Pakistan no more a safe place for religious minorities, says Activist
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 21 (ANI): A Pakistani human rights activist based in London has said that Pakistan was no more a safe place for religious minorities to live.
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Illegal dumping in WB's Bamonpokhri area under Kurseong forest division, p
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Siliguri (West Bengal) [India], September 21 (ANI): Wild elephants passing through the Bamonpokhri area under Kurseong forest division have been consuming waste which is illegally dumped in the area.
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Families of 12 detained activists approach Hong Kong police, to push for c
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hong Kong, September 20 (ANI): The family members of 12 Hong Kong human rights activists captured at sea last month by the Chinese authorities reported the case to Hong Kong police on Sunday, urging the force to speak to their mainland counterparts for the release of marine data from that da
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Activist Shabir Choudhry expresses discontent on UK lawmaker's silence ov
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], September 20 (ANI): A political activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) Shabir Choudhry has expressed discontent over UK's Labour MP Debbie Abrahams' 'silence' on the recent attack on peaceful protesters by Pakistani consulate in Bradford officials and human rights abuses
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People in PoK desperate for freedom from Pakistan govt: Activist
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 18 (ANI): Highlighting the atrocities comitted by Pakistan in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), Amjad Ayub Mirza, an activist from PoK, told the United Nations that people in the region are "desperate" for freedom from Pakistan government and want to join the u
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Financial sector confronts deforestation as a key ESG risk: Fitch
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], September 18 (ANI): The environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors could increasingly influence global banks' financing activities relating to commodity producers in forest-risk regions as deforestation is under growing scrutiny from activists and policymakers, Fitch Rat
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US Justice Dept charges 5 Chinese, 2 Malaysians for hacking over 100 targe
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced charges against five Chinese nationals and two Malaysian nationals for hacking more than a hundred targets in the US and elsewhere that include telecommunication companies universities, and pro-democracy
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Social activist Amjad ullah Khan urges Centre for early repatriation of 45
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], September 15 (ANI): Majlis Bachao Tahreek (MBT) spokesperson Amjad Ullah Khan on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the earlier repatriation of 450 Indians stranded in Sumeshi Jail of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
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Activists thank British MPs for raising extrajudicial killings, enforced d
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], September 15 (ANI): A Baloch political activist has thanked British Member of Parliament Jonathan Gullis for raising the issue of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of the Baloch before the British government.
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China declares 12 arrested Hong Kong activists as 'separatists'
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 14 (ANI): After the United States condemned the Hong Kong authorities for denying 12 arrested Hong Kong rights activists access to their lawyers, China has labelled the activists as "separatists".
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