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Israel blocking rights workers access to Gaza: HRW
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Israel [Jerusalem], April 3 (ANI): The New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that Israeli military authorities are blocking access to and from the Gaza Strip for human rights workers, who document abuses and advocate to end them.
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US should not interfere in India's internal matter: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), [India], Apr. 3 (ANI): With the US human rights report denouncing New Delhi over alleged violations including the Vyapam scam and encounter killing of eight suspected SIMI activists in Madhya Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said America should not
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U.S. Govt. report condemns India for 'Human Right Violation'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [U.S.A.] Apr. 3 (ANI): U.S. State Department in its report released on Sunday, has criticised India over alleged human rights violations, while referring to the police case against activist Teesta Setalvad and encounter of eight suspected Students Islamic Movement of India (
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'Commonwealth must address human rights abuses in Cameroon': CHR
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 1 (ANI): Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has been urged to address the spiralling human rights violations in Cameroon, press President Biya to restore fundamental freedoms and refer the matter to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG).
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Women rights proponents demand effective police response to rape survivors
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India],Mar.29 (ANI): Seeking to bridge gaps in police response to victims of rape and sexual assault, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) convened a National Conference on 'First Response, Good Policing and Rape Survivors' in collaboration with the British Hi
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Attacks on schools have devastated education in Pakistan: HRW
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [United States], Mar. 27 (ANI): Attacks by the Taliban and other militant groups are having a devastating impact on education in Pakistan, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released a day before the Second International Conference on Safe Schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Rohingya issue: UN to send fact-finding mission to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 24 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send an independent international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country, against the ethnic Rohingya Muslims in particular.
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Pak sidelined by international community after it interrupts BRP from spea
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 23 (ANI): After the Pakistani delegation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) interrupted the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) representatives to speak on the issue of gross human rights violation with the Balochi people due to the construction of the C
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CPEC will reduce Baloch into minority in their own homeland: Noordin Menga
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 17 (ANI): Asserting that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will convert the Baloch people into minorities in their own homeland, Human rights campaigner from Balochistan Noordin Mengal stated that with an influx of outsiders due to the project, the identi
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NGOs raise concern at UNHRC over human rights violation in PoK, Gilgit-Bal
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 15 (ANI): Raising their concerns over gross human rights violation in Pakistan administered Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, several NGOs at the 34th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have brought to light the utter violence and brutality taking place in the
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Pak human rights violation: JKIPA calls on UN to send 'fact finding&#
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 14 (ANI): United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) chairman Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has said that Jammu and Kashmir International People's Alliance (JKIPA) is seriously concerned about the massive human rights violations committed against minorities i
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CPEC is a military project by China: Mehran Marri
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 14 (ANI): Representative of Balochistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Mehran Marri dubbed the multi-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a military project by Beijing which it would later use against the United States and gulf nat
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