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Humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan needs urgent response: HRW
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 5 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said foreign donors should take immediate action to ensure that necessary aid reaches Afghans facing hunger and collapsing health services after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
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UNHCR terms Afghanistan situation as 'humanitarian emergency of internal d
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 5 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Sunday termed the Afghanistan situation a "humanitarian emergency of internal displacement" as more than half a million Afghan civilians have been displaced from the war-ravaged country.
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Iran must halt execution of Kurdish prisoner: UN rights experts
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 4 (ANI): The imminent execution of an Iranian Kurdish prisoner must be halted and his death sentence repealed, UN-appointed independent human rights experts said on Friday.
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UN experts call for urgent protection of Journalists at risk of persecutio
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 4 (ANI): A group of UN human rights experts on Friday called on all countries to provide urgent protection to Afghan journalists and media workers who fear for their lives and face persecution in the war-torn country.
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Taliban committing war crimes, have zero respect for human rights of Afgha
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] September 3 (ANI): Former Afghanistan Vice President Amrullah Saleh on Friday alleged that the Taliban are committing war crimes and "have zero respect for Human Rights of Afghans" in the war-torn country.
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SAD seeks resolution in House to observe National Human Rights Day as Reli
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 3 (ANI): In the ongoing one-day Punjab legislative assembly session on Friday, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) urged the speaker to pass a resolution to observe National Human Rights Day as Religious Tolerance Day in memory of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
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As candidature human rights council for 2022-2024, India has made specific
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [US], September 2 (ANI): As a candidate for membership of the Human Rights Council for the 2022-2024 term, India will maintain independence, autonomy and powers of investigation of national human rights bodies, said the Permanent Mission of India at United Nations, Geneva on Wednesd
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Scenes of barbarity in Afghanistan expose devastating human rights situati
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 1 (ANI): Recent scenes of barbarity in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover have exposed the devastating state of human rights in the war-ravaged country.
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Human rights group holds rally in Pakistan, recalls victims of enforced di
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] September 1 (ANI): Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday organised a peaceful rally from Gora Qabristan to Karachi to honour the victims of the country's 'enforced disappearances.'
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Chinese authorities harass Uyghur woman, her family in Xinjiang after she
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 1 (ANI): A Uyghur woman, Kalbinur Gheni who met a US official in December to discuss the imprisonment of her sister Renagul Gheni by Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang region is being subjected to harassment along with her relatives.
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Human rights group urges world to remember victims of China's enforced dis
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China] September 1 (ANI): Human rights group while marking the 'International Day of the Disappeared' urged the world to remember the people who became the victim of China's 'enforced disappearance'.
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NHRC writes to UP, Delhi Police, seeks report on sexual assault of woman
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission has taken cognizance of a complaint of an alleged sexual assault of a woman and has written to Uttar Pradesh Police and Delhi Police seeking a detailed report within four weeks in the matter, along with the action ini
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