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Overseas Pakistani Christian group holds demonstration against kidnapping,
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
The Hague [Netherlands], June 13 (ANI): Overseas Pakistani Christian alliance organised a demonstration jointly with Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) against kidnapping, forced conversion, forced marriages of Pakistani minor Christian's girls before Dutch Parliament on Saturday.
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Lucknow man arrested under UP's anti-conversion law
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 31 (ANI): Lucknow Police has arrested a resident of Azamgarh and charged him under the anti-conversion law for allegedly concealing his identity and coercing a woman from a different community to marry him.
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Pakistan witnessed substantial human rights violations in 2020: Report
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): As in preceding years, Pakistan witnessed substantial human rights violations in 2020, from forced conversions of religious minorities and crimes against women to enforced disappearances and curbs on freedom of expression, the Human Rights Commission of Pakist
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US Congressman expresses solidarity with Sindhi community as Pak crackdown
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 9 (ANI): Amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Pakistan against the Sindhis, US Congressman Adam Schiff has condemned the human rights abuses in Sindh province, including disappearances, torture, forced conversions and extrajudicial killings.
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UK urged to pressure Pakistan to hold those responsible for forced convers
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 23 (ANI): Underlining that Pakistan government narrative and policies have consistently been anti-Hindu, the World Sindhi Congress, an NGO, urged the United Kingdom to pressure Islamabad to hold all parties and community members accountable for forced conversions an
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UK must take tough stance on Pakistan's persecution of minorities, says sc
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], January 22 (ANI): As incidents of persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan -- particularly abduction and forced conversions of minor girls to Islam -- continue to rise at an alarming rate, London must 'take a stand' and hold Islamabad accountable for the crimes against mi
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Sindhi Foundation to protest over human rights violations outside Pak Emba
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 6 (ANI): Munawar Sufi Laghari, Executive Director of Sindhi Foundation and a well-known political activist in Pakistan urged the people of Sindh, Balochistan, Pakhtunkhwa to join a protest against the worst form of human rights violations and abuses in Pakistan, outs
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Shivraj Chauhan: MP cabinet approves anti-conversion bill
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Sehore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], December 26 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said on Saturday that the state cabinet has approved the Dharma Swatantrya (Religious Freedom) Bill 2020, which bars forced conversions.
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South Asian human rights body slams Pak over forced conversion of Hindu gi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 24 (ANI): In light of a 17-year old Hindu girl who died by suicide in October this year after she was allegedly raped last year, in Pakistan's Tharparkar district, a body of South Asian human rights groups has slammed Islamabad for unchecked forced conversion o
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Human rights group condemns abduction of Farah Shaheen, a Christian minor
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan], November 13 (ANI): Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) has condemned the abduction of another minor Christian girl by a middle-aged Muslim man in Faisalabad city of Punjab province in Pakistan.
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Pak presence in rights council 'intolerable': UN-accredited NGO
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 8 (ANI): Pakistan's presence in the United Nations Human Rights Council is "intolerable" given its rights record, said Geneva-based NGO UN Watch, adding that religious minorities in the south Asian country suffer from discrimination, sectarian violence and forced co
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Sindh govt to approach courts to review forced conversion, marriage of Chr
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 30 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday said that the Sindh government will approach relevant courts to seek a review in the case of Arzoo, a teenage Christian girl who was allegedly abducted from her residence in Kar
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