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NHRC directs Odisha DM to act against official flouting Covid norms at wed
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Sunday directed the district magistrate and collector of Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district to act on a petition alleging a state bureaucrat violated Covid-guidelines by participating in a dance procession during he
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Give Afghans living in Pakistan right to vote, says activist
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], June 6 (ANI): Afghanistan nationals living in Pakistan should be givien citizenship and the right to participate in general election in Pakistan, according to human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza.
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Asian, African dissidents hold protests in Paris against China
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Paris [France] June 5 (ANI): Scores of protests were held in Paris on Saturday against the human rights abuse committed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Right activist barred from leaving China to meet seriously ill daughter in
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 5 (ANI): A Chinese human right activist said he has been barred from leaving China to meet his seriously ill daughter, who is admitted in a Japanese hospital.
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NHRC seeks action-taken report from Assam govt in doctor assault case
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Taking cognisance of a complaint about the assault on a doctor by the relatives of a COVID patient who died at a hospital in Hojai district of Assam, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday called for the action taken report from Assam governmen
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China opposes Blinken's remarks on Tiananmen massacre, calls it 'political
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 4 (ANI): China on Friday opposed remarks made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and termed the widespread crackdown as a "political turmoil".
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UK's 'Uyghur Tribunal' begins to investigate atrocities in Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 4 (ANI): A panel of Britain-based lawyers and rights experts examining human rights violations and reports of genocide in China's Xinjiang region began hearing in London on Thursday.
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Amid human rights abuses by China, Australia's Uyghurs in despair over dis
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], June 4 (ANI): As Beijing continues its human rights abuses against ethnic minority communities in Xinjiang, Uyghurs living in Australia are left in despair over the 'disappearance' of their relatives in China.
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Abstained on previous occasions too, position not new, says India on UNHRC
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New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): India's decision to abstain at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) during the resolution to probe the Gaza conflict is not new and the country has abstained on previous occasions too, External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday.
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'Uyghur Martyrs' Road', 'Free Hong Kong Road': Budapest streets renamed in
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Budapest [Hungary], June 3 (ANI): The Budapest authorities have decided to rename the streets in the Hungarian capital near a planned campus of a Chinese university to commemorate human rights abuses by China.
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NHRC seeks case details, compensation over farmer activist rape at Tikri b
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had directed the Superintendent of Police, Jhajjar in Haryana, to submit a factual report on the alleged rape and subsequent death of a woman farmer activist from West Bengal who joined the farmers protest at Delhi-
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Pak rights commission raises concern over media censorship
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed "grave concern" over the growing climate of fear, violence, and censorship that currently underpins freedom of expression in the country.
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