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Doha agreement excludes women from political engagement: Human Rights Watc
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The Doha agreement is less transparent and also excluded Afghan women from political engagement to a great extent, Heather Barr, member of Human Rights Watch said.
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Plight of women in Pak prisons 'A Nightmare for Everyone': HRW Report
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The Pakistani prisons are one of the most overcrowded ones in the world, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, prison cells that were designed for a maximum of three people were reportedly holding up to 15 inmates on average.
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Taliban intensify repression of Afghan women, girls: Human Rights Watch
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch has said that on the one hand, the Taliban continue to beg for recognition and foreign help, while on the other, they escalate repression of Afghan women and girls, Khaama Press reported.
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China's monitoring tactics of Uyghurs are disturbing: Report
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
According to the latest Al Jazeera report by Erin Hale published on May 4, 2023, which cites a Human Rights Watch (HRW) forensic investigation reveals that Chinese authorities have monitored the phones of the ethnic minority Uyghur for the presence of 50,000 known multimedia files that were
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Afghanistan remains one of world's worst humanitarian disasters: Human Rig
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Afghanistan remained one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters and the crisis has worsened after a ban on women working for NGOs, Human Rights Watch said in a report, according to ToloNews.
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Two-Thirds of Afghanistan population face food insecurity: Human Rights Wa
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
"Two-thirds of the country's population is food insecure, including 875,000 children facing acute malnutrition. Women and girls remain most at risk," said Human Rights Watch.
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Afghanistan remains one of world's worst humanitarian disasters: Human Rig
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The organization in a statement said two-thirds of Afghanistan's population is food insecure, including 875,000 children facing acute malnutrition and women and girls remain at most risk.
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China tags Uyghurs as "violent extremists" for possession of the Quran
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Even owning a copy of the Quran can result in a police probe against the person, according to the 50,000 multimedia files that are used as a guide to flag information as encouraging extremism.
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Police used excessive force against Imran Khan's supporters: Human Rights
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Khan's supporters around the country have used rocks, Molotov cocktails, and in a few cases, assault rifles, to attack police and have set fire to ambulances, police vehicles, and schools, and destroyed property. Police have responded using tear gas and rubber bullets, and charged at protest
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China uses phone search data to target Uyghurs: Report
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The data collected by the apps, known as Jing Wang Wei Shi and Feng Cai, and the master list examined by Human Rights Watch fits in with other Xinjiang surveillance systems, which Wang described as "multidimensional and multi-layered" and includes checkpoints and the Chinese government's col
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At least 9000 Afghan refugees deported by Turkey since January 2023
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Turkey deported at least 9,000 refugees from Afghanistan back to the war-torn country since the beginning of 2023, Khaama Press quoted Human Rights Watch in Turkey as saying.
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China: Arrest of youngsters, who took part in white paper protests, contin
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Many of the protesters who took part in the November 2022 street demonstrations in China against President Xi Jinping's "Zero-Covid" policy are no longer alive. Not only the public memory of these events is fading, but it's possible that the protests themselves may be forgotten in China as a
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