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At UN, rights activists lambast Pak Army for suicide blasts, targeted kill
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Speaking to ANI, on the sidelines of the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, two rights activists explained the pattern of terrorist attacks in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, saying they mostly happened in areas where people “do not want their government.”
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Human rights activists at UN discuss China’s expansionist policies
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Human rights activists from South Asia, Japan and Africa discussed about the implications of China’s expansionist policies and their consequences on the people in the region.
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Women, children in China facing repression, female activists tell UNHRC
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Female human rights activists from Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong jointly highlighted China’s forceful repression of women calling it the worst human rights violations in the country.
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Baloch Human Rights Council questions Canada for silence on killing of act
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Karima Baloch was a Baloch human rights activist and a dissident. She was granted asylum in Canada in 2016. She was found dead after having gone missing in Dec 2020 in Toronto.
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Baloch leader questions Canada for not investigating murder of Baloch acti
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Karima, who died under mysterious circumstances in Canada last month, was slated to get buried on January 25, but, before the corpse could be transported from Karachi to Balochistan, Pakistani authorities forcibly took Karima's body along with her family from the airport to her hometown.<
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Pakistan: Christian human rights activists detained, tortured by police in
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
It was reported that August 16, 2023, marked a tragic day for the Christian community in Jaranwala. A brutal and destructive attack unfolded, resulting in the desecration of 24 churches, some reduced to rubble, and the widespread looting and burning of hundreds of homes across 11 areas in th
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UNHRC urged to protect rights of religious minorities in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Victims of blasphemy along with other human rights activists urged the United Nations to protect the minorities in Pakistan by bringing urgent reforms.
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Pakistani Christian activist at UNHRC exposes Pakistan for mistreating min
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A human rights activist from the Christian community in Pakistan has exposed the Islamic nation for mistreating them and using national security laws to persecute the minority community.
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Activist from Gilgit Baltistan raises human rights issues at UNHRC
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
He highlighted how coercive measures were adopted in Gilgit Baltistan by a state-owned telecom company Special Communications Organisation and has curtailed and curbed rights to freedom of expression in urban and rural areas of Gilgit Baltistan, affecting human rights of local people.
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As J-K prospers, people in Pakistan occupied Kashmir struggling for even b
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A prominent political and human rights activist from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK), who is now based in Brussels, lambasted Pakistan for exploiting the region for over seven decades and leaving the indigenous people struggling for even the basics.
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Rape suspect accused of faking his own death can be extradited to US: Scot
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Sheriff Norman McFadyen told Edinburgh Sheriff Court that Rossi’s extradition “would be compatible with the Convention rights within the meaning of the Human Rights Act 1998.”
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Diljit Dosanjh's film on Jaswant Singh Khalra getting new title, film to p
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Diljit Dosanjh's film on human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra’s life has got a new title.
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