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Human Rights Day: Bloch activists across world protest against Pakistan, C
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva/ London/Berlin, Dec. 10 (ANI): To mark International Human Rights Day, Baloch political activists across world - including the U.K., Canada, Australia, South Korea, Germany and many other European nations - held protests against atrocities committed by the Pakistani establishment on t
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US, EU call on China to release political prisoners
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Dec 10 (ANI): As the world observes Human Rights Day today, the United States and the European Union said that political prisoners in China should be freed.
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Human Rights Day being celebrated today
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New Delhi [India], Dec. 10 (ANI): Human Rights Day is being celebrated today to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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SWASTI calls for joint action to protect women's right, sexual minori
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 9 (ANI): On the occasion of the Human Rights Day, Swasti, a health resource centre, is rallying people to end all discrimination against women, sexual minorities and people living with HIV (PLHIV) at the workplace - by developing a progressive employment policy and p
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Create society which respects, protects human rights: Dattu
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 9 (ANI): On the eve of Human Rights Day, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairperson Justice H.L. Dattu called on the people of the nation to join hands to create a society in which human rights of every individual are respected and protected in our quest for
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Arrest, deportation of Baloch and human rights activists by Thailand invit
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], Nov.30 (ANI): The detention and deportation of two Baloch political activists and a human rights campaigner by authorities in Thailand has invited global condemnation.
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ACHR welcomes NHRC recommendation in Bara massacre case
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.29 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to commute the death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir K
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Trump must pressure UN to drop war crime charges against Lanka, says Presi
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov.27 (ANI); Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has asked U.S. president elect Donald Trump to put pressure on the UN Human Rights Council to drop war crimes allegations against his country's troops.
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HRC issues notice to TN Govt. over hospital diagnosing false pregnancy
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Tamil Nadu [India], Nov. 26 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government after a government hospital wrongly diagnosing a woman with tumor as pregnant.
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Pakistan's Balochistan province facing devastating human rights crisi
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Quetta [Pakistan]/Brussels[Belgium], Nov.23 (ANI): Balochistan, the largest and resource-rich province of Pakistan, has been facing the worst human rights crisis where the Baloch are being suppressed.
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Human Rights Watch asks Afghan Govt for plan protecting Shia minority
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Nov. 22 (ANI): Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that the Afghan government should develop a security plan to better protect minority Shia during high-profile public events.
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In Nepal, 'scant progress on justice' as govts fail to deliver o
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York (United States), Nov. 19 (ANI): Even 10 years after signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA), which brought an end to the civil war started by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in 1996, successive Nepali governments have failed to deliver on its central human rights promi
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