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NHRC warns Union Education, HRD Secretaries over plight of students from p
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has warned of coercive action while issuing a final reminder to the Secretary, Department of Education and Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India over the hardships, miseries and suff
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Delhi court grants bail to accused in activist Sushil Pandit matter
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): A Delhi court has granted bail to one of the accused of allegedly plotting to kill a human rights activist Sushil Pandit.
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Japan ruling party calls for joining genocide convention with eye on China
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], May 16 (ANI): Ahead of the Group of Seven (G7) summit next month, lawmakers from Japan's ruling party has drafted proposals for the government, to advance the issue of human rights diplomacy amid growing scrutiny of abuses in China's Xinjiang province.
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Nordic-Baltic countries express concern at human rights situation of Uyghu
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 15 (ANI): Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden have issued a joint statement expressing grave concern at the human rights situation of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in China's Xinjiang province.
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NHRC seeks report from West Bengal govt on policies to prevent sex trade a
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Saturday sought a report from the chief secretary of the West Bengal government on the policies framed to prevent sex trade at Asia's largest red-light area, Sonagachi in West Bengal.
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Terror attacks in Afghanistan, Maldives threatening democracy, human right
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], May 15 (ANI): The deadly Kabul school blasts and the attempted 'terrorist attack' on former Maldives President Mohammed Nasheed points to an era of eroding adherence to democratic practices and slackening respect for human rights in South Asia, said a European think
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NHRC directs Odisha CS to look into health, chronic malnutrition issues in
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday directed the Odisha Chief Secretary to look into the matter personally and act on health, chronic malnutrition and other allied issues of the rural areas of the state and take appropriate action in the mat
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Calls grow at UN for unfettered access to China's Xinjiang province
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], May 14 (ANI): Several western countries and human rights organizations have yet again called on China to allow the UN human rights chief unobstructed access to the Xinjiang province to probe the situation of ethnic minorities in the northwest region of the country.
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UN members ask China to give 'unfettered' access to Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], May 13 (ANI): A group of United Nations members has asked China to grant "immediate, meaningful and unfettered access" for the group's human rights chief to Xinjiang to inspect human rights abuses of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.
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NHRC issues notice to Centre, Bihar, UP over bodies found floating in Gang
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday took cognisance of a complaint about several dead bodies found floating in Ganga in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
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Xinjiang birth rate fell nearly half in two years after Chinese crackdown:
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Canberra [Australia], May 13 (ANI): The birth rate across the Xinjiang region fell by nearly half in the two years after China adopted "coercive and intrusive policing of reproduction processes", according to new research.
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Slum-dwellers, homeless people move Delhi HC for direction to provide food
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 13 (ANI): Slum dwellers and homeless people moved the Delhi High Court on Thursday seeking direction to the Central Government, National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC), Delhi government, Delhi police and other authorities to make adequate arrangements for thei
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