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Thousands flee to Thailand after Myanmar Army's air strikes on villages: R
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], March 28 (ANI): Nearly 3,000 villagers from Myanmar's southeastern Karen state escaped to Thailand on Sunday after the army conducted air attacks on an area held by an ethnic group, Sky News reported citing the local media reports.
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H&M faces backlash in China for refusing to purchase cotton from Xinji
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], March 25 (ANI): Swedish multinational clothing retailer H&M is facing a backlash within China for refusing to purchase cotton producing in Xinjiang, where the Communist government is carrying out atrocities on Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities; termed as "genocide" by
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Spanish-speaking children face higher obesity rate than english-speaking o
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 21 (ANI): The findings of the annual Endocrine Society's meeting suggests that Spanish as a family's primary language is a predictor of childhood obesity, regardless of ethnicity.
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Ethnic minorities in England less likely to report using e-cigarettes to r
Updated : 5 years ago IST
London [UK], March 19 (ANI): Ethnic minority groups may be missing out on a means of reducing smoking, suggest the findings of a new survey.
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China restricting information from Xinjiang to scrub evidence of genocide
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 19 (ANI): Amid the 'genocide debate' among Western governments over China's crackdown against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China's Xinjiang, Beijing has been restricting information flow from the area to scrub evidence, leading countries to make determination
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Young adults shed light on what matters for mental health of ethnic divers
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 17 (ANI): A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), reports on the young adult assessment of the now 20-year longitudinal Boricua Youth Study (BYS), a large cohort that brings much-needed insight about development and m
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US needs to act more against China for human rights abuses against Uyghurs
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 16 (ANI): Even though the US sanctions on China for numerous human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims are hurting the nation but more action needs to be taken by the Biden administration to further enhance the pressure on Beijing's increasing crackdown on ethnic mino
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Genocide by Pakistan Army in former East Pakistan needs to be globally rec
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 15 (ANI): It is matter of shame that the genocide committed by Pakistan in Bangladesh 50 years ago, which killed more than the holocaust and was aimed at changing ethnicity of a group, is yet to be globally recognised, according to a Paris-based think tank.
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Ethiopia rejects US allegations of ethnic cleansing in Tigray
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], March 14 (ANI/Xinhua): The Ethiopian government on Saturday rejected US allegations of ethnic cleansing in the northern Tigray regional state as "completely unfounded."
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Missing Uyghur entrepreneur's sister urges Biden administration to act on
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 12 (ANI): Uyghur entrepreneur and philanthropist Ekpar Asat disappeared upon returning to China almost five years ago, after participating in a prestigious US State Department programme, believed to be one of the two million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities detained
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Pressure rises on China as hundreds protest in Istanbul against Beijing's
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Istanbul [Turkey], March 11 (ANI): International pressure on China's aggressive crackdown on ethnic minorities has risen, with the latest report of hundreds of women staging a march in Istanbul demanding an end to Beijing's 'genocide' and protection of Uyghur women's rights.
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Newly-uncovered evidence reveals schemes to uproot minorities in China's X
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Amid the growing international criticism of human rights abuses in China, newly-uncovered evidence revealed state-run schemes to forcibly uproot, assimilate and reduce the population density of ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang region through c
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