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Pak: Former PM Imran Khan's legal team appeals to UN on human rights viola
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The international legal team representing former Pakistan PM Imran Khan has filed an appeal with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, after citing severe human rights violations taking place during his ongoing detention, Geo TV reported.
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Journalist Siddique Kappan, 10 others booked for obstructing pedestrian mo
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The event was organised on Saturday evening at Vanchi Square near the Kerala High Court junction by human rights organisations to condemn the arrest of Kerala-based journalist Rejaz M Sheeba Sydeek.
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Baloch families mark two months of protest in Islamabad
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Sammi Deen Baloch, a prominent human rights activist, condemned the delayed justice for Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders. According to Sammi Deen Baloch, the sit-in by Baloch families demanding the safe recovery of their forcibly disappeared family members has entered its second month
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Assam: NHRC takes suo motu cognisance of reported assault on media person
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raise a serious issue of human rights violations. Therefore, it has issued a notice to the Director General of Police, Assam, calling for a detailed report on the matter within two weeks," the release said.
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WUC weekly brief highlights UN warning, transnational repression and Uyghu
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has released its weekly brief, highlighting attention to ongoing human rights abuses in East Turkistan, Beijing's campaign of intimidation against Uyghurs abroad, corporate complicity in forced labour, and the unresolved disappearance of Gulshan Abbas.
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Pakistan called out for ethnic cleansing in PoJK, PoGB at UN Rights Counci
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
At the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), speaker Fidencie Izabayo, from an international NGO, Reveil communautaire d'assistance aux victims, based in Burundi, raised alarm over what she described as Pakistan's "grave and deliberate crime against humanity" in Pa
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Long overdue but disappointing: Bengal Minister Shashi Panja on PM's Mani
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"What the people of Manipur think about this is crucial, what they feel they should put forward. This is a truth that that the situation of human rights in the state, the injustice being done, the fights being done. Everything, whatever insult to women could be done was done. They were hopin
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"Pakistan is another state sponsor of terror": Human Rights Lawyer blasts
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Hillel Neuer, a human rights lawyer and executive director of UN Watch left Pakistan embarrassed as its representative interrupted his speech while speaking on Israel's bombing on Qatar.
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Indian envoy welcomes Irish rights body's cooperation against racist targe
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Indian Ambassador to Ireland Akhilesh Mishra met Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Chief Liam Herrick, discussing recent attacks on Indians. Both sides stressed cooperation to protect the community's rights and safety, with Mishra thanking Herrick for ongoing efforts against raci
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Human rights body holds Pakistan responsible for flood crisis
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the disaster cannot be dismissed as a purely natural calamity; instead, it is the outcome of reckless planning, illegal land occupation, deforestation, corruption, and the government's persistent failure to act on climate change.
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Chinese Communist Party's campaign against Falun Gong sparks sovereignty c
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) campaign of intimidation against Shen Yun Performing Arts and Falun Gong practitioners in the United States is not merely a cultural dispute, but a direct assault on American sovereignty, The Epoch Times reported, citing human rights scholar William L. Sau
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Civil society urges Pakistan's enforced disappearances commission for "mis
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
A prominent rights group has criticised Pakistan's Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (COIED), accusing it of rushing through cases and failing to deliver justice to victims' families. The Defence of Human Rights (DHR), led by activist Amina Masood Janjua, has called on Prime M
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