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Dr Kafeel Khan writes to UN experts, urges Centre to 'release human rights
Updated : 5 years, 5 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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UN experts: Pakistan must end enforced disappearance of human rights defen
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 4 (ANI): UN human rights experts today called on the Pakistani authorities to end the secret detention of human rights defender Idris Khattak, who has not been heard from in more than nine months.
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UN experts write to China on Panchen Lama, reincarnation rules, ICT welcom
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Aug 5 (ANI): Five UN human rights experts and expert bodies have raised concerns with the Chinese government about Tibet's "disappeared" Panchen Lama and Beijing's reincarnation rules, citing fears about Chinese interference in the succession of the Dalai Lama.
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UN experts appalled by enforced disappearance of Pak activist Idris Khatta
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 2 (ANI): UN human rights experts have condemned the enforced disappearance of Idris Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender, calling it an "intolerable attack" on his legitimate work against a range of human rights and minority violations in the Khyber Pakhtunkh
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UN experts call for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in C
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 26 (ANI): Independent experts from the United Nations have called for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in China as they raised deep concerns over treatment of Uighur Muslim minority in Xinjiang and said the impending national security law concernin
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Pakistan blasphemy death sentence for lecturer is 'travesty of justice': U
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva, [Switzerland], Dec 27 (ANI): The United Nations human rights experts on Thursday condemned the death sentence handed to lecturer Junaid Hafeez by a Pakistan court and called the ruling a "travesty of justice"
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CPEC paralysing Balochistan, says activists at UNHRC
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 18 (ANI): Human rights experts and activists from Balochistan have opposed the construction of the multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in the region alleging it as an "illegal project" in the occupied territory.
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