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2014 Peshawar attack was carried out by terrorists but facilitated by Pak
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
The TTP created havoc in Pakistan with several attacks between 2007-2014. The TTP members had fled to Afghanistan after Islamabad launched widescale operations against the group following the Peshawar attack. But recent Pakistan media has published reports that suggest the resurgence of the
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Sri Lanka: SC orders to issue summons to former Prez Gotabaya in 2011 huma
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], October 19 (ANI): Sri Lankan Supreme Court on Wednesday has given orders to summon former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the disappearance of two human rights activists in 2011 as he is now out of constitutional powers.
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Tibet has fallen off the international agenda, warns expert
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 17 (ANI): British human rights activist Benedict Rogers has raised alarm over the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) treatment of Tibet and Xinjiang as its 'laboratory' for developing a surveillance state and sinicization of all religions throughout the country.
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Baloch National Movement protests in Berlin against Pakistan Army over enf
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 9 (ANI): Baloch National Movement Germany has organised a protest in Germany against the enforced disappearances of Baloch people by the Pakistan Army including the recently abducted Faheem Baloch.
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Rights activists stage protests in Taipei against Chinese aggression, urge
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], October 1 (ANI): Human rights activists staged a protest against Chinese aggression outside Taiwan's Legislative Yuan and urged the politicians to sign a petition safeguarding Taiwan's democracy and not surrender in case the island nation is attacked, media reports said.
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UP: NCPCR seeks response of administration over dog bites to children in G
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): Taking cognizance of the complaint of Advocate Vishnu Kumar Gupta, a human rights activist on the issue of rising incidents of Dog bites on children, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has sought responses from Municipal Com
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Kashmiri intellectual raises at UNHRC Islamabad's repeated attempts to ame
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 27 (ANI): A Kashmiri intellectual and human rights activist raised the issue of Islamabad's repeated attempts to change the status of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) by amending the 1974 Interim Constitution.
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Experts discuss terrorism, effects on human rights in South Asia at UNHRC
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 26 (ANI): Experts and human rights activists discussed the proliferation of terrorist organizations in the region of South Asia during the 51th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Activists raise grim human rights situation in Balochistan at Berlin confe
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 20 (ANI): The Baloch human rights activists and those living in exile have raised the issue of the grim human rights situation in Pakistan's poorest but resource-rich province of Balochistan at a day-long conference held in Berlin on September 17.
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Political, human right activists call Pakistan-occupied Kashmir a state in
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 19 (ANI): Amid Islamabad's unsuccessful efforts to constitutionally integrate Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan, human rights activists from the region along with journalists, lawyers and thinkers from Pakistan raised the human rights situat
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House arrest instances in China could cross over a million in next 3 years
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 7 (ANI): Under the Chinese President Xi Jinping, the law enforcement's use of house arrests or "residential surveillance" has risen sharply, media reports said citing a research by Safeguard Defenders.
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China-backed controversial mega project in Myanmar rapidly becoming human
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 7 (ANI): Rising incidents of human trafficking have alarmed human rights activists, with reports that the Shwe Kokko New City in southeast Myanmar's Karen State has become a people-trafficking hub.
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