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Digital Sukoon founder, Sudhanshu Kumar receives Best Digital Agency award
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India] April 10 (ANI/NewsVoir): Digital Sukoon founder, Sudhanshu Kumar honoured with the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Nobel Award by International Human Rights Council at Hotel Sea Princess Juhu Mumbai. Among the awardee, Digital Sukoon was the Best Digital Agency of the Y
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Sindhis call on UN to send fact finding team to Sindh, seek UN interventio
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], March 30 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC), which represents the interest of the Sindhi People, has formally asked the United Nations to send a fact-finding team to Pakistan to investigate the ongoing human rights violations in Sindh province of Pakistan and to clear the
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CPEC is geo-strategic project for China: American scholar
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 15 (ANI): The multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a geo-strategic asset for China to strengthen its own military prowess and Pakistan will collude with the Chinese to kill every Baloch to make Balochistan and its resources safe for Chines
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Pakistan’s support to terror and N-doctrine of first use creates worrying
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva (Switzerland), Mar 13 (ANI) Pakistan’s support to terrorism and its doctrine of “first and even an early use” of nuclear weapons, create a worrying and destabilising situation in South Asia, experts opined here at a conference, held parallel to a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council
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Pakistan criticised at UNHRC for its duplicity on Kashmir
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 13 (ANI): Kashmiri political activists and intellectuals have strongly criticised Pakistan for its duplicity on Kashmir during the 40th Session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) here on Tuesday.
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To protect terrorists, Pakistan willing to use even N-weapons; This should
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva, Mar 11 (ANI) In an effort to protect terrorists on its soil, Pakistan is willing to bring the world to the brink of a war and even resort to the use of nuclear weapons, which should "horrify all of us", a researcher at an Amsterdam-based European foundation told the United Nations
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EU reprimands Saudi Arabia over human rights at UNHRC
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 8 (ANI): As many as 36 countries, including all 28 members of the European Union (EU), signed a statement condemning Saudi Arabia's human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
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Khashoggi killing: UN official expected to visit Turkey for international
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], Jan 25 (ANI): The UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard, is expected to visit Turkey on January 28 for an international probe into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October last year.
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Khashoggi murder case trial 'not sufficient': UNHRC
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Jan 4 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has denied evaluating the ongoing trial of slain Saudi Arabia journalist Jamal Khashoggi and called it to be insufficient.
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NHRC to hear 150 cases at Kolkata open session
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 11, (ANI): The National Human Rights Council (NHRC) will hear around 150 cases at the open hearing in Kolkata being held at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences on December 13 and 14.
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Illegal detention of Imtiaz Butt, widely condemned by the United Kashmir P
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Nov 27 (ANI): The tactics of harassment and intimidation of nationalist political leaders in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir continues. Illegal detention of Mr. Imtiaz Butt, newly elected Chairman of the publicity board of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) at the
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'India to continue balanced approach towards protecting human rights'
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [USA], Oct 13 (ANI): Few hours after India was elected to the United Nations' top human rights body on Friday, India's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, said that New Delhi would continue its balance and moderate approach towards the protection of h
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