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Issue of illegal arrest, torture of activist who removed Pakistani flag in
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): Exiled political leaders from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have raised the issue of abduction, torture, and harassment of activists and journalists by Pakistani agencies at the illegally occupied region during the ongoing 45th Session of UN Human
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International organizations term Pak as killing field for minorities: Indi
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): Underscoring that Pakistan is known as the "killing field" for the minorities, India on Monday slammed Islamabad which has "institutionalised" enforced disappearance as a tool of "subjugation against dissent and criticism", adding that the country re
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Western nations rebuke China at UNHRC over human rights violations in Xinj
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 27 (ANI): Amid the growing concerns over ongoing human rights violation in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, the Western countries together slammed China and called for the restoration of the basic legal rights in the two regions.
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Allow 'meaningful access' to Xinjiang for independent observers: EU calls
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 26 (ANI): European Union has called on China to allow meaningful access to Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region for independent observers, including for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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Pak responsible for miseries, genocide of Afghan-Pashtuns: PTM leader at U
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 26 (ANI): Drawing the international community's attention towards the plight of 40 million Afghan-Pashtuns living in Pakistan, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader said that the recent brutal attack on Zeba Safi (also known as Malala) in Momand district of Pa
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Balochistan suffering a severe humanitarian crisis, activist told UN
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): A Baloch political activist has told the United Nations that Balochistan is suffering a severe humanitarian crisis, having been in the throes of a ruthless genocidal conflict for the past two decades.
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Baloch and Sindhis protest outside UN against Pakistan's human rights viol
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) and the World Sindhi Congress (WSC) held a joint protest outside the UN building at the Broken Chair in Geneva during the 45th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) against the institutional
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Don't need lessons from Pakistan which is known as "nursery and epicenter
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): India on Friday gave a befitting reply to Pakistan at the 45th Session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations saying that the world doesn’t need lessons on human rights from a country which has been known as "nursery and epicenter
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UN must intervene to protect minorities from persecution in Pakistan, asks
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): A rights activist from Pakistan, Anila Gulzar has requested the United Nations to intervene and protect the rights of minorities in Pakistan as they have been facing persecution for the past seven decades.
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Pakistan exploits Kashmiri youth as pawns in its proxy war, says EFSAS dir
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): Since the late 1980s, Pakistan's military establishment has used youth from Jammu & Kashmir to join its various terrorist proxies like Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Taibah and Jaish-e-Mohammed, said the director of Amsterdam based think-tank, the
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IATA, UNOCT to cooperate on countering terrorist travel
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation with the United Nations Countering Terrorist Travel Programme (CT Travel
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Enforced disappearances of Sindhi people by govt agencies continue unabate
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): Enforced disappearances of Sindhi people by Pakistan agencies continue unabated in the country and abduction is used as a tool to spread terror among the minority communities, said Secretary-General of World Sindhi Congress, Lakhu Luhana on Thursday
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