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EU has certain redlines in its relationship with China: Portugal Foreign M
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): Portugal Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva has said that the European Union has certain redlines in its relationship with China and cannot be silent concerning human rights violations in Xinjiang, squeezing of democratic space in Hong Kong and cannot acc
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US sanctions 16 people, 5 state security entities from Belarus
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The US Treasury Department has designated 16 persons and five entities from Belarus, including the State Security Committee (KGB) and the press secretary of the Belarusian president, as part of a new sanctions package after the Ryanair incident in M
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UKPNP calls for UN probe into rights abuses in Pak occupied J-K, Gilgit Ba
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], June 21 (ANI): Expressing deep concerns over human rights violations in Pakistan and its occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) has appealed to the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the ma
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Forced displacement of people reaches record high of 82.4 million, says UN
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 18 (ANI): The number of people displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations in the world has increased to a record 82.4 million, according to the Global Trends report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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World Sindhi Congress urges G7 leaders to take action against human rights
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], June 16 (ANI): As the much-coveted Group of Seven (G7) concluded recently, the World Sindhi Congress (WSC) has urged world leaders of the summit to take action against ongoing grave human rights atrocities against Sindhi people in Pakistan.
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Rights group urges Hilton hotels to drop Xinjiang project at bulldozed mos
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 16 (ANI): The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has urged Hilton Worldwide Holding to drop a plan to build a hotel in China's Xinjiang region on the site where Chinese authorities have bulldozed and desecrated a mosque.
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Filipino workers accuse Pakistani diplomats in Geneva of not paying salari
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 12 (ANI): Six Filipino employees in Geneva have filed a complaint against Pakistani diplomats saying that they did not pay their salaries for more than 20 years.
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After perplexing silence over China's dismal human rights, New Zealand wak
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 11 (ANI): New Zealand, which is usually outspoken on human rights matters in general has remained largely silent on the China's concentration camps thinly veiled as "re-education camps" for the Uyghur Muslims.
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Families of activists who flee China's Xinjiang pay a heavy price, says ri
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 10 (ANI): Members of the Uyghur diaspora, belonging to China's Xinjiang region, who speak publicly about the arbitrary detention of their family members or criticize human rights violations, face vague charges of terrorism by Chinese authorities, according to the Human Ri
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Human rights violations, curtailed religious freedom qualifies Pakistan to
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 9 (ANI): Successive Pakistani administrations have engaged in gross violations of human rights, suppressed dissent and curtailed religious freedom. It qualifies Pakistan to be designated as a terror sponsor State.
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US lawmakers urge IOC to consider alternative locations for 2022 Beijing O
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 8 (ANI): Top US lawmakers from the House Foreign Affairs Committee introduced a resolution on Monday (local time), urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to move the 2022 Winter Games, citing human rights violation against Uyghur by the Chinese governmen
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China opposes Blinken's remarks on Tiananmen massacre, calls it 'political
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 4 (ANI): China on Friday opposed remarks made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and termed the widespread crackdown as a "political turmoil".
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