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China's COVID protests highlight need to protect Chinese diaspora, says ri
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The calls for greater scrutiny of China's actions in Canada come amid protests against Beijing's zero-Covid policy in US and Canada and controversy surrounding the overseas "Chinese police stations."
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Taliban arrests women activists, journalists in Hazara neighbourhood of K
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Taliban arrested women journalists and human rights activists, along with four men from the Hazara neighbourhood in West Kabul and intrusively disrupted a women's press conference held in Dasht-e-Barchi area, continuing their atrocities.
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Rights Activists welcome US resolution on Bangladesh genocide by Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Human rights activists welcomed the introduction of a US resolution on the 1971 Bangladesh genocide by Pakistan.
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Sri Lanka: SC orders to issue summons to former Prez Gotabaya in 2011 huma
Updated : 3 years, 4 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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Baloch National Movement protests in Berlin against Pakistan Army over enf
Updated : 3 years, 5 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, 5 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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Experts discuss terrorism, effects on human rights in South Asia at UNHRC
Updated : 3 years, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 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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Baloch rights activists demand release of missing persons in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], September 4 (ANI): Human rights activists and various student bodies in Pakistan staged a protest on Tuesday and demanded the immediate release of all the missing persons including Faheem Baloch.
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