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Myanmar spiralling 'from bad to worse, to horrific', says rights expert
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): Since the Myanmar military launched its "disastrous" coup last year, conditions have worsened, said UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews on Wednesday.
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High time for Human Rights Council to address issues in Tibet as CCP regim
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], September 22 (ANI): World has turned its attention towards Tibet once again as the United Nations (UN) has failed to discuss the crisis unfolding in Tibet in its fifty-first regular session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva so far despite the unlawful suppression of Tibet
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At HRC, Baloch group requests UN intervention over rights abuses in Pakist
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): A Baloch rights group has requested UN intervention in the southwestern province of Pakistan to save people suffering from the most severe form of rights violations.
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UK Rights envoy raises concern on 'grave' oppression of Afghan women
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 22 (ANI): As human rights violations continue to take place in Afghanistan, Britain's Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French condemned the suppression of women in Afghanistan and said that the condition for women and girls in the country is deteriorating and the
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Activists hold anti-Pakistan protest outside UN office in Geneva
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 21 (ANI): The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) organised a massive anti-Pakistan protest in front of the United Nations office in Geneva during the ongoing 51st session of the Human Rights Council.
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China-elected Panchen Lama's 'perfectly planned' visits hide human rights
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], September 21 (ANI): In the wake of the ongoing sinicization of Tibetans by China, the regular visits of the China-appointed Panchen Lama Gyaltsen Norbu to Tibet throw light on the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) hidden agenda to spread disinformation about Tibet and hide the r
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Enforced disappearances continue to be a significant political issue in Ce
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 21 (ANI): Enforced disappearances continue to be a significant political issue in Central and South Asia and the recent UN report on China is a great example as it highlights that Beijing has systematically disappeared ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and other h
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UN official calls for genuine investigation into Panjshir crimes by Taliba
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 20 (ANI): UN special rapporteur for Afghan Human Rights, Richard Bennett, called out the Taliban to conduct the investigations amid reports of extra-judicial killings in Panjshir in a genuine manner and as per international standards.
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Activists raise grim human rights situation in Balochistan at Berlin confe
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 20 (ANI): The Baloch human rights activists and those living in exile have raised the issue of the grim human rights situation in Pakistan's poorest but resource-rich province of Balochistan at a day-long conference held in Berlin on September 17.
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Baloch rights group highlights enforced disappearances in Balochistan thro
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 20 (ANI): Baloch Voice Association, an NGO based in Paris, organised a three-day poster manifestation to highlight a three-fold increase in enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
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Political, human right activists call Pakistan-occupied Kashmir a state in
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 19 (ANI): Amid Islamabad's unsuccessful efforts to constitutionally integrate Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan, human rights activists from the region along with journalists, lawyers and thinkers from Pakistan raised the human rights situat
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China represses Tibetans under guise of COVID-19 protocol
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], September 16 (ANI): Amid the increasing cases of COVID-19 in Tibet, the Chinese government is using the guise of COVID protocol to further repress the Tibetan people, curtailing their fundamental freedoms.
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