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'Displaced families from Libyan town to return home'
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], Dec 27 (ANI): The Libyan families, who were displaced in 2011 after the toppling of former Prime Minister Muammar Gaddafi, from a plundered town of Tawergha, east of Misrata will be allowed to return home in February, confirmed the UN- backed government.
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China's human rights activist gets eight years of imprisonment
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], Dec 26 (ANI): China's prominent human rights activist Wu Gan, who is also known as Super Vulgar Butcher, was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment for subversion.
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MQM seeks US help to protect Muhajirs in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], December 24 (ANI): Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has sought the intervention of the United States president Donald Trump's administration into alleged human rights violations against the Muhajir community in the country.
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NHRC notice to Odisha Govt. over farmers'suicide
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec.21 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo-motu cognizance of a media report that 12 farmers committed suicide in 50 days in Odisha's Bargarh District.
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Make commission report on Terai violence public: HRW tells Nepal
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [USA], Dec 21 (ANI): Human Rights Watch on Thursday asked the Nepal Government to make the report on Terai violence public.
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UN human rights chief will not seek a second term
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Dec 21 (ANI): United Nations high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, a staunch critic of United States President Donald Trump has stated that he will not seek a second term.
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Free Balochistan campaign launches in New York
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [USA], December 20 (ANI): The World Baloch Organisation (WBO) has launched its #FreeBalochistan human rights awareness campaign in New York, after a successful month of implementing the same campaign in London, UK.
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Bharat Jal launches its Maiden Water ATM's - India's gateway to clean drin
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 19 (ANI-NewsVoir): 'Clean Drinking Water' was declared as a Human Right by the UNO in the year 2010 and yet, the WHO lists it as one of the Top 10 Global Needs. Ironic as it may sound, getting access to clean drinking water in India is a privilege.
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40 Rohingya villages burnt in October and November, says HRW
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [United States], Dec.18 (ANI): Satellite imagery over Myanmar has revealed that at least 40 new Rohingya villages were burnt down in the months of October and November in the country's northern Rakhine State.
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Global civil society groups tell Pakistan to reverse NGO ban
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi[India], Dec.16 (ANI): Condemning the Government of Pakistan's closure of over 20 international aid agencies "without any verifiable cause", a group of international civil society organisations have described the decision as part of a growing and worrying trend of shrinking space fo
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Pak's expulsion of foreign NGOs is rights' violation: Human Rights Watch
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York City [United States], Dec 16 (ANI): Pakistan's decision to shut down at least 10 international organizations, without citing valid reasons, breaches the right to freedom of expression and association, according to the New York- based Human Rights Watch.
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Palestinian Down syndrome sufferer alleges abuse by Israeli troops
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Hebron [Palestine], Dec 15 (ANI): A Palestinian man with Down syndrome has accused the Israeli troops of assaulting him in Hebron city of Palestine.
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