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Minority women at risk in Pakistan due to forced conversion, marriages
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 20 (ANI): Pakistan's dilemma of forced conversions and marriages put minority women at risk and the issue of securing rights for minority women has become particularly complex in Pakistan.
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UK report says Pak Muslim men target minority girls for forced
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 23 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim men target minority girls for forced marriage and push them into prostitution forcibly as observed by the UK parliamentary panel report.
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Pakistani Christians are victims of hatred: Report
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 18 (ANI): Pakistan has descended into an abyss of religious intolerance and Christians are increasingly facing persecution in the country, says a report.
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Taliban forcing women to marry terrorists
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): As the Taliban is gaining ground in Afghanistan by capturing many key cities in the country, the terror group is now forcing women to get married to its terrorists, a media report said on Thursday.
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Muslim cleric condemns forced interfaith marriage of Sikh girls in J-K, ur
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Jammu (Jamu and Kashmir) [India], June 28 (ANI): A day after Sikh community leaders alleged that two Sikh girls were abducted on gunpoint, forced to marry elderly men from a different religion and convert their religion in Srinagar, the Imam, Markazi Jamia Masjid, Jammu has called for an
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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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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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Delhi woman lodges FIR against man for rape, forced marriage
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): A FIR was registered at Sarita Vihar Police Station here after a woman lodged a complaint that a man allegedly coerced her for marriage and later raped her, the police said.
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China advertises marriages to Uyghur women to attract Han men into Xinjian
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [USA], Aug 1 (ANI): China has started the forced marriage game by advertising marriages to Uyghur women and girls to attract men into the Xinjiang or East Turkistan region of China, according to a report published in the Daily Citizen - Focus on the Family.
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Pakistan continues to violate Universal Declaration of Human Rights' right
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): Every year a large number of Christian and Hindu girls, mostly minors, across Pakistan are abducted and forcibly converted to Islam to get married to Muslims.
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Religious freedom in Pakistan continues to 'deteriorate': UK-based human r
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], Dec 16 (ANI): Asserting that religious freedom in Pakistan continues to "deteriorate" under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a UK-based human rights organisation, has said that discriminatory legislation by the Pakistan Tehree
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Princess Haya, wife of Dubai ruler, seeks marriage protection order in Bri
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], July 31 (ANI): Princess Haya Bint al-Hussein, the estranged wife of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum, has asked for a forced marriage protection order in a British court.
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