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Pakistan muzzling voices of dissent in PoK, Gilgit Baltistan: Activist inf
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 16 (ANI): A Kashmiri political activist has urged the United Nations to take serious note on human rights violations in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan during his intervention at the ongoing 46th Session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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UNHRC must pay attention to Pakistan's deplorable human rights record: Ind
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 15 (ANI): India on Monday called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold Pakistan accountable for its state-sponsored and supported grave violation of human rights of its people, saying the UN body must pay urgent attention to Islamabad's deplorable hum
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Pak orchestrating proxy war, promoting terrorism in Kashmir, EFSAS chief t
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 15 (ANI): Thousands of Kashmiris have died in a proxy war orchestrated by Pakistan and they continue to suffer due to terrorist groups patronized by Pakistan military establishment, said the chief of the European Foundation for South Asian Studies during a general
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European think-tank urges UN to hold Pakistan accountable for promoting te
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 10 (ANI): An European think-tank has urged the United Nations to hold Pakistan accountable for promoting terrorism and failing to live up to its legal and moral obligations towards its own people and the international community.
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'We see no contradiction between countering terrorism, protection of human
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 4 (ANI): Underlining that terrorism is an attack against human rights, India on Thursday said it has been at the forefront of global counter-terrorism efforts and does not see any contradiction between countering terrorism and promotion and protection of human rig
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Photo exhibition in Geneva highlights persecution of Baloch
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 2 (ANI): A three-day exhibition highlighting the persecution of Baloch people in Pakistan's Balochistan province has been launched in front of Palais Wilson on the sidelines of the ongoing 46th Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva.
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Pakistan, in dire economic situation, using humans rights forum for its ma
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 2 (ANI): India at the Human Rights Council on Tuesday said that Pakistan, a country in a dire economic situation, is using human rights forum for its malicious propaganda against India.
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'No locus standi': India at Human Rights Council rejects OIC, Pakistan's s
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 2 (ANI): India on Tuesday rejected the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) statements on the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, as it has no locus standi to comment on matters related to the region, while regretting that the OIC continues to allow it
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India slams Turkey over remarks at Human Rights Council, rejects incorrect
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 24 (ANI): Terming Turkey's remarks regarding the situation in Kashmir and the implementation of UN resolutions as "completely unacceptable," India has said it is "ironical for a country which has trampled upon its own civil society to pass unjustified comments
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US seeks to regain seat on UN Human Rights Council
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 24 (ANI): President Joe Biden aims to secure a seat for the United States on the United Nations Human Rights Council almost three years after the Trump administration left the world body, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Wednesday.
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India at Human Rights Council asks Pakistan to put its house in order, dis
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], February 24 (ANI): India has urged Human Rights Council to call upon Pakistan to take credible and irreversible steps to end state-sponsored terrorism and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure in the territories under its control.
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Human rights agenda continues to face severe challenges, most of all from
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 23 (ANI): Noting that terrorism continues to be one of the gravest threats to humankind and India is at the forefront of the fight against it, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that there is a need for clear realisation in bodies dealing wi
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