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Threat to human rights highest in police stations: CJI NV Ramana
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Sunday said that the threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in police stations, adding that custodial torture and other police atrocities still prevail despite Constitutional guarantees.
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Custodial torture, police atrocities still prevail in our society: CJI Ram
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 8 (ANI): The Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana on Sunday expressed his concerns over the increasing cases of custodial torture and police atrocities in the country and said that the threat to human rights and bodily integrity is the highest at the police statio
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NHRC notice to Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka over plight of workers who cr
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 7 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday has issued notice to the Chief Secretaries and Principal Secretaries of the Department of Labour of Delhi, Maharashtra, and Karnataka on a plea filed to highlight the plight of crematorium or graveyard
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Afghanistan: Forced displacement of people reaches record high of one mill
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 6 (ANI): A Human rights watchdog on Wednesday informed that nearly one million people have been displaced countrywide within the past three months in Afghanistan.
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Rights group expresses concern over women's rights in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], August 5 (ANI): Justice for women's rights offenders in Afghanistan remains elusive and the law that aims to provide legal protection to women is becoming ineffectual as the Taliban makes more territorial gains across the country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.
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Advancing Taliban execute detainees in multiple provinces as fighting rage
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], August 4 (ANI): An independent human rights organisation has said that Taliban forces advancing in Ghazni, Kandahar, and other Afghan provinces have summarily executed detained soldiers, police, and civilians with alleged ties to the Afghan government.
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NHRC takes serious view of suicide by two prisoners in Mumbai, Kolkata ja
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission, (NHRC) India, has taken a serious view of the deaths due to suicide by the two prisoners of Navi Mumbai and Dum Dum Central Correctional Home, Kolkata, and non-submission of requisite reports in the matters by the conc
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Afghan Justice Minister accuses Taliban of war crimes
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 4 (ANI): Afghan Justice Minister Fazel Ahmad Manawi has accused the Taliban of war crimes, says the terror group is not committed to adhering to any international laws or humanitarian norms.
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Afghan Foreign Minister, UN Special Representative discuss human rights vi
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] August 4 (ANI): Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Haneef Atmar and UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons on Tuesday discussed violation of human rights by Taliban in the country.
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Pashtuns organise rally against Pakistan in New York
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], August 2 (ANI): Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) arranged a rally against the illegal detention of Ali Wazir and Pakistan's proxy war in Afghanistan. Ali Wazir is one of the sane voices of human rights and against military oppression in Pakistan.
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Afghan watchdog records 80 pc increase in civilian casualties
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 1 (ANI): As many as 1,677 civilians were killed and 3,644 more were injured in Afghanistan in the first six months of this year, showing an 80 per cent increase of casualties compared to the same period in 2020, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
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Human Rights Watchdogs blame Taliban for misery in Spin-Boldak
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan] July 31 (ANI): Several Human Rights watchdogs have blamed the Taliban for the death of dozens of civilians in Kandahar's Spin-Boldak district.
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