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Human Rights Watch chief stopped at airport denied entry into Hong Kong
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong, Jan 13 (ANI): Immigration authorities on Sunday barred the executive director of Human Rights Watch from entering the semiautonomous territory, where he was about to launch a report reviewing rights practices around the world that focused heavily on actions of the Chinese governme
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HRW urges Nepal Government to release 2015 Terai Violence Report
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Oct 03 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Nepal government to release the report of the Lal Commission, which investigated deadly violence of the 2015 Terai Movement.
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Human rights group urges Nepal govt to reconsider media-related bills
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Sept 4 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Nepal government to reconsider the tough provisions stated in the bills related to media which were endorsed recently.
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Mozambique: Human Rights Watch urges probe as cyclone victims 'forced to t
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Maputo [Mozambique], Apr 26 (ANI): Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday urged Mozambique authorities to investigate and prosecute alleged sexual exploitation of Cyclone Idai victims by local officials in exchange for food and aid.
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Pak human rights watchdog raises concern over forced conversion of Hindu g
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Apr 15 (ANI): Pakistan's independent human rights watchdog on Monday raised concerns over increasing incidents of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls to Muslim men every year.
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HRW calls for transparent probe into Pashtun activist's death
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New York [USA], Feb 17 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for a transparent investigation into the death of Pashtun activist Arman Luni, who died during a sit-in protest in Balochistan earlier this month.
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Saudi Prince faces heat for human rights violation
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Buenos Aires [Argentina], Nov 27 (ANI): The Argentinean judicial authorities have started examining a submission by Human Rights Watch against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is widely known as MBS, in which the watchdog has alleged war crime charges against the Saudi-led coaliti
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Sexual abuse part of daily routine in North Korea: Report
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington D. C. [USA], Nov 02 (ANI): Sexual harassment offences against women by people in positions of power like government officials and the police in North Korea are normal and part of a women's daily routine.
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Criticising government costing broadcasters in Maldives
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Male [Maldives] September 14 (ANI): With Maldives inching closer to polls, airing content criticising the incumbent government helmed by President Yameen Abdul Gayoom is costing the broadcasters of the nation, says South Asia director of Human Rights Watch, Meenakshi Ganguly.
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Amnesty to Pakistan: End alarming poll-linked crackdown
Updated : 7 years, 9 months 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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Investigate fate of disappeared men in B'desh: HRW
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Jan 27 (ANI): The Bangladesh Government should take urgent steps to confirm the whereabouts and the release of men held by its security authorities outside the authority of the courts, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a letter to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina o
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Sharif's ouster triggers political turmoil in Pak: HRW
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan 20 (ANI): Ouster of former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has triggered a political turmoil and instability in the country, says Human Rights Watch.
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