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Rohingya Muslims 'abused': Myanmar rejects UN interference
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
London [U.K.] May 3 (ANI): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) decision to investigate allegations of crimes and inhumane treatment by Myanmar's security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.
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BRP urges international community to stop Pak from spreading terrorism
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 2 (ANI): Condemning Pakistan's act of mutilating bodies of two Indian soldiers, Baloch Republican Party (BRP) representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Abdul Nawaz Bugti has said that this was the wake-up call for India and the world abo
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African envoys call for Human Rights Council investigation in 'Xenoph
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 3 (ANI): Dubbing the recent violence against African students in India as 'Xenophobic', heads of African missions in India have called for an independent investigation by the Human Rights Council as well as other human rights bodies into these incidents.
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Rohingya issue: UN to send fact-finding mission to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 24 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send an independent international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country, against the ethnic Rohingya Muslims in particular.
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Pak sidelined by international community after it interrupts BRP from spea
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 23 (ANI): After the Pakistani delegation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) interrupted the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) representatives to speak on the issue of gross human rights violation with the Balochi people due to the construction of the C
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NGOs raise concern at UNHRC over human rights violation in PoK, Gilgit-Bal
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 15 (ANI): Raising their concerns over gross human rights violation in Pakistan administered Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, several NGOs at the 34th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have brought to light the utter violence and brutality taking place in the
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CPEC is a military project by China: Mehran Marri
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 14 (ANI): Representative of Balochistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Mehran Marri dubbed the multi-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a military project by Beijing which it would later use against the United States and gulf nat
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Balochistan demands appointment of UN special rapporteur to look into huma
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): Baloch political activists and human rights defenders raised the situation of deteriorating human rights in Balochistan and condemned the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) at a side event during the 34th Session of UN Human Rights Council here.
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UNHRC: Kashmiri writer opposes CPEC, says J-K is not for sale
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): Kashmiri writer and director Junaid Qureshi on Friday told the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) the state of Jammu and Kashmir was not for sale while voicing apprehension towards the multi-billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
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World Sindhi Congress calls for end to 'genocide' of Sindhi Hind
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar.10 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) hosted a conference titled 'Erosion of Sindhi Culture in Pakistan' at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 6.
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India pulls up Pak, asserts its stand on PoK at UNHRC
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 9 (ANI): In a strong-worded statement, India has asserted that Pakistan continues to illegally occupy a part of their territory, referring to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, at the 34th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Conference on Sindh Hosted in the United Nations
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar.8 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) hosted a conference titled 'Erosion of Sindhi Culture in Pakistan' at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 6.
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