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Human rights body airs concern over Afghan refugees' torture in Iran
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 22 (ANI): As blatant human rights violation continues to take place in Iran against the Afghan refugees, Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International's campaigner, expressed concern over the recent torture and called it inhumane.
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Taliban's prohibition on girls education departure from International law
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 20 (ANI): Taliban's announcement of closing secondary schools and high schools for girls is yet another departure by the regime from international law obligation which requires making secondary and higher education accessible to all.
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Pakistan National Assembly echoes with slogans against 'agenda' killings o
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 20 (ANI): Lawmakers from Balochistan on Tuesday raised slogans against the Former Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government and the security forces in the Pakistan National Assembly for carrying out 'agenda' killing of Baloch people.
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West's economic sanctions on Taliban won't reform outfit: Report
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 19 (ANI): The economic sanctions approach that the West has adopted towards the Taliban regime in Afghanistan after its takeover of Kabul in August last year is neither helping the humanitarian situation in the country nor will reform the outfit in its outlook on s
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Balochistan party boycotts Pakistan National Assembly over civilian killin
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Quetta [Balochistan], April 19 (ANI): In an embarrassement to newly-formed coalition government under Shehbaz Sharif government in Pakistan, the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) boycotted the National Assembly proceedings on Monday over the killings of civilians by security forces i
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UNHRC special rapporteur to investigate human rights violations in Afghani
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 17 (ANI): The newly appointed United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) special rapporteur on Afghanistan said on Sunday that he will closely examine allegations of torture, disappearances, killings of former government employees and detentions under the Taliban
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Pakistani forces compel Baloch drivers to march through desert: Report
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): Pakistani forces allegedly forced several drivers from the ethnic minority areas of Balochistan to abandon their vehicles and march through the desert to their homes in the Chagai district near the border with Afghanistan, local media reported.
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Taiwanese activist jailed in China for 'subversion' returns home after fiv
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], April 16 (ANI): A Taiwanese rights activist, who served a five-year jail term for "subversion" in China, returned to Taiwan on Friday, expressed concerns regarding human rights violations in China, according to a media report.
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After protests by rights groups, Saudi Arabia halts deportation of four Uy
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], April 15 (ANI): After worldwide protests by human rights groups, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday halted the deportation of four Uyghur individuals to China, which included a woman and her 13-year-old daughter.
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Taliban refutes US report on human rights violation in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghnistan], April 15 (ANI): Taliban has refuted a recent report released by the US State Department which acknowledged a steep fall in the human rights progress in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of United States' troops last August.
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China says US Human Rights report reveals hypocrisy, double standards
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], April 15 (ANI): Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected the annual human rights report released by the US Department of State, saying that the document reveals the "hypocrisy and double standards" of the Americans.
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Afghanistan: EU Parliament Member asks Taliban to lift ban on girls' educa
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 14 (ANI): Taking a grim view of the ongoing human rights violations in Afghanistan, Hannah Neuman, a German member of the European Parliament, called for urgent measures to lift the ban on the exclusion of the girls from the schools.
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