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Myanmar has the highest coronavirus mortality rate in Southeast Asia
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar] July 30 (ANI/FENA): With the increase in coronavirus deaths in Myanmar, accusations of residents and human rights activists that the military government, which took control in February, is using the pandemic to consolidate power and suppress the opposition, are becoming m
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Rights group expresses concern over abduction of human rights activist in
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] July 21 (ANI): Various European chapters of Amnesty International, including Luxemburg, Brussels, Switzerland have written to the Sindh Chief Minister, expressing their concern over the abduction of a human rights activist in the country.
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Pakistan continues intimidation, harassment of its citizens abroad
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 20 (ANI): Pakistan seems to be emulating its all-weather ally China in intimidating its citizens abroad, particularly dissidents and human rights activists.
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Pak govt fails to implement bonded labour abolition law, say activists
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], July 18 (ANI): Human rights activists have come together in Pakistan to express concern regarding the dire conditions of agriculture workers who are facing social and economic exclusion from the agriculture fields due to non-payment of their due by landlords.
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Pakistan: Human rights activist under attack after receiving international
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Gulalai Ismail, a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and women rights activist, has come under severe criticism in Pakistan after receiving an award for human rights.
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National Equality Party protests outside Pak high commission in London aga
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], June 11 (ANI): National Equality Party Jammu Kashmir Gilgit Baltistan and Ladakh (NEP JKGBL) on Thursday held a protest outside the Pakistani High Commission here against the imprisonment of political workers and human rights activists in Pakistani Occupied Jammu Kashmir and Gil
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Give Afghans living in Pakistan right to vote, says activist
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], June 6 (ANI): Afghanistan nationals living in Pakistan should be givien citizenship and the right to participate in general election in Pakistan, according to human rights activist Amjad Ayub Mirza.
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Delhi court grants bail to accused in activist Sushil Pandit matter
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): A Delhi court has granted bail to one of the accused of allegedly plotting to kill a human rights activist Sushil Pandit.
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Pakistan: TLP 'goons' force policemen to chant religious slogans, activist
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 13 (ANI): In what has been described as a state failure, "goons" from far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) gheraoed police personnel in Lahore city of Pakistan on Tuesday and forced them to chant religious slogans.
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Guru Granth Sahib stanza included in UN official video on gender equality
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 31 (ANI): On the 4th Anniversary of the United Nations Faith for Rights declaration, the UN Office of the High commissioner on Human Rights has issued a short video on gender equality which contains a stanza from Guru Granth Sahib read by renowned scholar and huma
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Rights report highlights unlawful killings and forced disappearance of Bal
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], March 31 (ANI): In its 2020 Country Reports on Human Rights, the US State Department has highlighted significant human rights issues in Pakistan, including unlawful or arbitrary killings by the government and forced disappearance of Pashtun, Sindhi and Baloch human rights
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Erdogan and Bahceli move to ban Turkey's third largest party
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Nicosia [Cyprus], March 22 (ANI): Before the ink was dry on President Tayyip Erdogan's much touted "Human Rights Action Plan," announced on March 2, the autocratic President of Turkey showed his real "commitment" to human rights, by granting the wish of his ultra-nationalist ally Devlet Bahc
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