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Afghanistan faces 'cultural disaster' after fall of Kabul: UN expert
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 18 (ANI): Afghanistan faces a "cultural disaster", following the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, a UN Special Rapporteur on Tuesday urged countries to provide urgent assistance to human rights defenders.
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Tokyo: Protestors demonstrate against human rights abuses by China, calls
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 19 (ANI): A group of protestors on Monday including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, and human rights defenders from Hong Kong, Japan and China demonstrated against the human rights abuses by Beijing and called upon the world community to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Oly
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Human rights defenders are tortured in China, says UN expert
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 29 (ANI): A top UN independent expert on Monday highlighted concerns that activists in China were being abused and sentenced to long prison terms or house arrest.
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'Plight of missing persons have increased': NGO highlights issue of enforc
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], February 20 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC), an NGO, had a virtual meeting with the United Nations Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances, wherein they agreed to make a more concerted efforts to raise the International Community's understanding of the
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Pakistani rights group joins hands with Taiwanese NGO to raise minority ri
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan], January 30 (ANI): The Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), a human rights group based in Faisalabad, has joined hands with the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) to raise the issue of rights for minorities in Pakistan on international platforms.
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Pakistan a death trap for journalists, human rights defenders,minorities:
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 30 (ANI): Slamming the "fabricated words" presented by Pakistan, India on Wednesday at the United Nations Human Rights Council highlighted that incessant efforts on its part to malign India in all international forums is not going to change the fact that hundr
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Dr Kafeel Khan writes to UN experts, urges Centre to 'release human rights
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): Dr Kafeel Khan has written to United Nations human rights experts in reference to their letter dated June 26, 2020, urging the Indian government to immediately release human rights defenders.
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Dissidents condemn enforced disappearances, state-sanctioned killings, dim
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], May 19 (ANI): Expressing concerns over enforced disappearances, state-sanctioned killings in Pakistan, prominent Pakistani dissidents, human rights defenders, and peace activists from around the world have asserted that repression by authorities in the country has incre
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Daughter of missing Pashtun activist lambasts Pakistan for silencing dissi
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Talia Khattak, daughter of a prominent human rights defender Idris Khattak, has lambasted Pakistan for silencing dissidents.
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Religious freedom in Pakistan continues to 'deteriorate': UK-based human r
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Dec 16 (ANI): Asserting that religious freedom in Pakistan continues to "deteriorate" under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a UK-based human rights organisation, has said that discriminatory legislation by the Pakistan Tehree
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Geneva: Activists tear into Pak for atrocities against Baloch, false claim
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 11 (ANI): Baloch political activists and human rights defenders have lambasted on Pakistan for atrocities against Baloch people at the same time when the cash-strapped nation is crying foul over Kashmir at the 42nd United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) here.
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Amnesty to Pakistan: End alarming poll-linked crackdown
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New York [United States], June 15 (ANI): New York-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International has appealed to authorities in Pakistan to end what it described as an alarming crackdown on human rights defenders, activists, journalists and other civil society members in the run up to the
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