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'Displaced families from Libyan town to return home'
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], Dec 27 (ANI): The Libyan families, who were displaced in 2011 after the toppling of former Prime Minister Muammar Gaddafi, from a plundered town of Tawergha, east of Misrata will be allowed to return home in February, confirmed the UN- backed government.
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Make commission report on Terai violence public: HRW tells Nepal
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [USA], Dec 21 (ANI): Human Rights Watch on Thursday asked the Nepal Government to make the report on Terai violence public.
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40 Rohingya villages burnt in October and November, says HRW
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [United States], Dec.18 (ANI): Satellite imagery over Myanmar has revealed that at least 40 new Rohingya villages were burnt down in the months of October and November in the country's northern Rakhine State.
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Pak's expulsion of foreign NGOs is rights' violation: Human Rights Watch
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York City [United States], Dec 16 (ANI): Pakistan's decision to shut down at least 10 international organizations, without citing valid reasons, breaches the right to freedom of expression and association, according to the New York- based Human Rights Watch.
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Lanka joins global mine banning treaty
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [U.S.], Dec.15 (ANI): Sri Lanka has joined the international treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, Human Rights Watch has said.
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Rohingya return deal bad for refugees, says HRW
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [United States], Dec.12 (ANI): An agreement by Bangladesh and Burma to begin returning Rohingya refugees to Burma by January 23, 2018, creates an impossible timetable for safe and voluntary returns and should be shelved, Human Rights Watch today said in a letter to both governmen
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Bangladesh should meet global standards in dealing with BDR, says HRW
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [USA], Nov.29 (ANI): The Bangladesh government should agree to new trials meeting international standards for members of the former Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) accused of mutiny and murder, including 139 whose death sentences were upheld on November 27, 2017, by the High Court, Human Ri
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Watchdog urges UN inquiry into Iran recruiting Afghan kids to fight in Syr
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], Oct.1 (ANI): A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report today revealed that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been recruiting Afghan immigrant children, as young as 14, to fight in Syria and urged the United Nations to investigate the matter.
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Pak PM Abbasi washes hands off deadly blasphemy law
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 21 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has washed his hands off the blasphemy law, saying it is on the parliament to change or amend it.
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Poem sent over WhatsApp can prove deadly in Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New York [USA], Sep 21 (ANI): In Pakistan, a poem sent over WhatsApp can prove deadly.
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HRW condemns forced relocation of ISIS families in rehabilitation camp in
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mosul [Iraq], July 13 (ANI): After declaring victory in Mosul, Iraqi authorities have forcibly relocated hundreds of families of alleged Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists to a "rehabilitation camp", which New York-based Human Rights Watch has termed as "an act
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HRW urges B'desh Govt. to end disappearances, secret detentions
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [United States], July 6 (ANI): The New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Bangladesh Government to immediately stop widespread practice of enforced disappearances and secret detentions.
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