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PoK, Gilgit Baltistan witness rise in human rights abuses, activists infor
Updated : 3 years ago IST
While giving an intervention during the 52nd Session of the Council, Nasir Aziz Khan, the central spokesperson of the United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) said, "Our organization would like to draw your attention to the serious human rights abuses that are taking place in Pakist
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Defector explains how North Korea's weapons overshadow human rights abuses
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"North Korea is a living hell," Jung Gwang-il, a North Korean defector and president of the No Chain rights organization, told DW on the sidelines of an EU Parliament event last week investigating the dire human rights situation in North Korea.
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US blacklists 37 Chinese, Pakistani firms
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 37 entities to its blacklist for allegedly contributing to Russia's military and defence industrial base, supporting China's military modernisation, and facilitating or engaging in human rights abuses in Myanmar and
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Xinjiang's Governor Tuniyaz despised as a traitor, puppet of Beijing
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Recently, Tuniyaz cancelled a trip to the United Kingdom and the European Union after an outcry from politicians and Uyghur activists who said welcoming him would tacitly condone China's human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
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China' aggression against India, Taiwan 'unacceptable', Republican lawmake
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Several Republican lawmakers, on Wednesday, urged US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to hold China accountable for its human rights abuses and to tell Beijing that their provocative aggression against Taiwan and India is "unacceptable."
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Pak rights group condemns desecration of Ahmadiyya worship site in Punjab
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This week, the Express Tribune newspaper reported that a historic worship place of the Ahmadi community in Wazirabad was allegedly desecrated by the district administration.
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Ali Wazir: Face of Pakistan's non-violent movement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Wazir has been consistently targeted for his unequivocal criticism of the Pakistani Army and the human rights abuses that the Pashtun ethnic minority face in Waziristan and neighbouring border areas in the former Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), now a part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Chinese embassy 'firmly opposes' UK's Hong Kong report
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
On Thursday, the UK foreign office published a six-monthly report on Hong Kong, stating that "the Chinese and Hong Kong authorities are undermining the rights and freedoms promised to Hong Kongers under the Sino-British Joint Declaration."
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World taken aback by revelation of a scandal in the European Parliament: R
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Sabotage of the EP, an important diplomatic body known for applying pressure to hostile regimes or those that engage in human rights abuses or anti-democratic behaviour, threatens to blow up into a major crisis at the heart of the European Union.
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China sanctions 2 American citizens in response to US action over Tibet ri
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
This comes amid a continuing standoff between the nations over the treatment of minority communities by the Chinese government.
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Scottish Govt to phase out Hikvision, China's CCTV surveillance system fro
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scotland has decided to phase out Hikvision, China's CCTV surveillance system equipment and is stripping them out of Scottish buildings, writes Sellainne Cathry in Vision Times.
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US announces sanctions against human rights abusers in Iran
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Responding to a query over supporting protesters in Iran, Sullivan said, "We have had a drumbeat of announcements relative to sanctions against those who are perpetrating these gross human rights abuses and this repression. We haven't just done so ourselves, we have coordinated and aligned
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