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UK Foreign Secretary to visit China today, will raise human rights issues
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Foreign Secretary will state that China’s global significance comes with a responsibility for international security
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Pakistan: HRCP raise questions about attacks on minorities, weakening of p
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) during a conference on Monday raised concerns over the condition and incidents of attacks on minorities as well as the “hybrid plus state” model” weakening the political parties in Pakistan.
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NHRC sends notice to UP government over Muzaffarnagar student ill-treatmen
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a teacher of a private school referring to the faith of one of her students in an absurd manner ordered his classmates to beat him.
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Pak: Human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari remanded into police custody in terr
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
After a day of arrest of human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari, Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Islamabad granted her three-day physical remand to the Islamabad police in a terror case registered against her in the federal capital's Barakahu Police Station, reported The News International.
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Afghanistan: National and international organizations react to Taliban ban
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The national and international organizations rasied concerns following the ban on Afghan women from visiting Band-e-Amir National Park in Bamiyan province of Afghanistan, reported TOLO News on Monday.
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Pakistan: Shortly after release, Islamabad police rearrests human rights l
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir was arrested in a case lodged in Barakahu police station in Islamabad. In a statement, Mazari’s lawyer said the police did not inform them about the case in which Mazari had been arrested.
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Pakistan: Court grants bail to human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari in seditio
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Islamabad granted bail to the human rights lawyer and daughter of former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shireen Mazari, Iman Mazari in a sedition case
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China’s long arm: Rights lawyer tries to flee to US, held in Laos; faces r
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Lu Siwei, who belonged to a rare and increasingly besieged group that took sensitive cases to defend rights activists and political pariahs, is now facing the threat of deportation in Laotian custody.
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Pakistan uses blasphemy laws to target minorities: Report
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
As an angry mob, motivated by blasphemy claims, set fire to churches and wreaked havoc on Christian homes in Jaranwala tehsil of Faisalabad recently, this incident in particular reminds everyone of another distressing chapter in Pakistan's history.
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Christian community stages protest outside European Parliament against vio
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
In the protest, the protesters expressed grave concerns over the religious freedom violations and stifling state of freedom of expression in Pakistan and called upon the European Union to assess Pakistan’s compliance with its human rights obligations.
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Amnesty International slams Pakistan for cases of enforced disappearances
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Amnesty International slammed Pakistan over the multiple cases of enforced disappearance, and secret and arbitrary detentions and called out the authorities to take action and work towards ending this practice.
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NHRC issues notice to Jharkhand Govt over poor upkeep, management of Jamsh
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Commission has observed that a Government institution cannot be allowed to remain in complete apathy and neglect due to the negligence of the officers, causing human rights violations of the children in conflict with the law, some of whom have been staying in JJH for years together.
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