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Covid-19 pandemic presents India with 'rare' opportunity to question China
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Amsterdam [The Netherlands], May 2 (ANI): The coronavirus pandemic has presented India with a "rare and welcome" opportunity to question China over its scant regard for basic human rights, which has displayed by the country's irresponsible and callous attitude towards the outbreak that has k
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Four killed, 23 injured in blast in Syria's Aleppo
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], May 2 (ANI): At least four people were killed while 23 others were injured in an explosion that took place in storehouse of cooking gas cylinders in a town in Syria's Aleppo province on Friday (local time).
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Organised sex racket run by terror groups in PoK needs world's attention,
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Zurich [Switzerland], April 30 (ANI): Political activists and human rights organisations have raised concerns over organised sex racket being run by banned terror groups who are targeting local women in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
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Activist approaches NHRC to make screening of arrested persons mandatory
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 29 (ANI): A complaint was moved in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday seeking directions to the Centre, States and Union Territories for mandating "medical screening" of all arrested persons before sending them to jail in a bid to prevent the sp
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Second blast rocks Syria's northern city of Afrin
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Damascus [Syria], April 29 (ANI): A second blast took place in Syria's northern city of Afrin on Tuesday (local time) when an explosive device tore through a vehicle, hours after a first explosion killed 40 people.
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UN urges Bangladesh to take in 500 Rohingyas stranded at sea
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 28 (ANI): The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has urged Bangladesh to "immediately allow" two boats with 500 Rohingya refugees onboard "to come ashore and receive necessary food, water and health care."
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Pak cleric blames women's 'wrongdoing' for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 27 (ANI): Pakistan's well-known cleric has passed an inflammatory remark against women in the presence of Prime Minister Imran Khan on live television, claiming that COVID-19 has been unleashed on humanity because of the 'wrongdoing of women.'
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NHRC notice to Maharashtra DGP over Palghar lynching
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued a notice to Maharashtra Director General of Police (DGP) over the Palghar lynching case, observing that the "incident is apparently indicative of negligence by public servants".
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Why is China silent over disappearances of Covid-19 whistleblowers?
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 20 (ANI): Human rights advocates fear that the Chinese authorities have been secretly terrorising lawyers and activists speaking up about the coronavirus outbreak and are being branded as enemies of the state in the process.
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Man forced to carry ailing father on foot in Kerala after police stops aut
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Kollam (Kerala) [India], April 16 (ANI): The Kerala State Human Rights Commission has registered a suo moto case in connection with an incident where a man was allegedly forced to carry his 65-year-old ailing father on foot after the police stopped the autorickshaw in which they were travell
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NHRC asks Centre about arrangements made for mentally ill people on roads
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 10 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Central government about the arrangements made for the mentally ill people roaming on the streets across the country amid the coronavirus lockdown.
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Seven US Senators oppose position to China in UN Human Rights Council Cons
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], April 8 (ANI): Seven US Senators have written to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opposing the appointment of Jiang Duan, Minister of Chinese Mission in Geneva to the UN Human Rights Council Consultative Group and said that China should not occupy the position of
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