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Pakistan resisting International commitments on blasphemy laws
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 22 (ANI): The increasing cases of blasphemy registered in Pakistan continues to be a cause of concern for human rights activists who have repeatedly highlighted the practice and urged world bodies, including the EU to take note of the issue, which has worsened
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EU asks member states to offer safe legal pathways out of Afghanistan for
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 26 (ANI/Sputnik): EU member states should come up with safe legal pathways for people who are particularly at risk, such as female judges and human rights activists, to travel from militant-controlled Afghanistan to Europe, Eric Mamer, the chief spokesman for the E
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Myanmar has the highest coronavirus mortality rate in Southeast Asia
Updated : 4 years, 7 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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Pakistan continues intimidation, harassment of its citizens abroad
Updated : 4 years, 7 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, 7 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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National Equality Party protests outside Pak high commission in London aga
Updated : 4 years, 9 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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Rights report highlights unlawful killings and forced disappearance of Bal
Updated : 4 years, 11 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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Activists, Uyghurs protest in Paris to ensure Pakistan is placed on FATF b
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Exiled journalists, human rights activists, and Uyghurs on Tuesday gathered at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) headquarters in Paris to persuade the anti-terror financing organisation to place Pakistan on the blacklist.
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Imran Khan, Pak Army attacking minorities amidst rising public anger again
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], December 31 (ANI): In the face of rising public anger against the Pakistan Army and with Prime Minister Imran Khan's power dwindling, incidents of vandalism on places of worship of minority communities have gone up, according to human rights activists.
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US politicians urge Egyptian president to release activists imprisoned ill
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], October 19 (ANI): More than 50 politicians of the United States have urged Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to release activists, journalists, lawyers, and prisoners of conscience detained illegally in Egyptian prisons.
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Families of 12 detained activists approach Hong Kong police, to push for c
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, September 20 (ANI): The family members of 12 Hong Kong human rights activists captured at sea last month by the Chinese authorities reported the case to Hong Kong police on Sunday, urging the force to speak to their mainland counterparts for the release of marine data from that da
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UN expresses concerns over violence against journalists, human rights acti
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 9 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Office on Tuesday expressed its concern over the increasing instances of threats of violence against journalists and human rights activists in Pakistan.
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