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Pakistani journalist voices safety concerns amid threats
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Arzoo Kazmi, a prominent journalist based in Pakistan, took to social media to voice serious concerns about her safety within her homeland.
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Baloch activist's death sparks outcry, Pak Army blamed for alleged increas
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Paank, the Baloch National Movement's Human Rights Department, condemned activist Naveed Baloch's extrajudicial killing in a post on social media platform X.
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East Turkistan Government in-Exile condemns China's village name changes a
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The ETGE condemned these actions as part of China's broader strategy to erase the rich heritage of East Turkistan and emphasised the urgent need for global intervention to halt what it described as a genocidal campaign.
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Pakistan: Human Rights body expresses concerns on killing of media profess
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Khalil Jibran, the former president of the Landi Kotal Press Club who used to work for a news outlet titled Khyber News, was gunned down by unidentified persons early this week. The media professional was also a volunteer for the HRCP.
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Pakistan: Rights Group condemns lynching of blasphemy accused in Swat
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) vehemently condemned the mob lynching incident in Swat, Pakistan and criticised the law enforcement agencies.
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Human rights organisations voice concern over situation in Xinjiang, call
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the International Service for Human Rights, and the World Uyghur Congress said that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, should provide a public update of measures taken by the Chinese government and his office to addr
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Haryana: NHRC takes suo motu cognizance on reported deaths of workers whil
Updated : 2 years ago IST
After the death of two brothers in Haryana's Sonipat after inhaling poisonous gas while cleaning a septic tank, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of the case and issued notices to Haryana's Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police.
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World Uyghur Congress exposes harassment of refuge-seeking Uyghurs abroad
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The WUC urged international human rights organisations and host countries to abide by their obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention and uphold the principle of non-refoulement by immediately ceasing any extradition of Uyghur refugees and asylum seekers to China
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UN urges China to disclose status of imprisoned Uyghur doctor
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Mary Lawlor, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, has urged Chinese authorities to disclose information regarding the status and location of Dr Gulshan Abbas, an Uyghur doctor reportedly serving a 20-year prison sentence since 2019 on charges rela
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NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of reported delay of nearly six years in ca
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The National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report, carried on June, 13 that a six-year-old boy from Bihar's Begusarai has been waiting for a cardiac issue surgery since 2019 when he was three months old. Doctors at All India Institute of Medica
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National Human Rights body takes suo motu cognizance of "anti-labour" prac
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The NHRC in a statement said that it has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that at one of the warehouses of a multi-national company in Haryana's Manesar "a 24-year-old worker was asked to pledge that they would not take toilet or water breaks until they finished unloading packages
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China changes village names as part of cultural destruction of Uyghur comm
Updated : 2 years ago IST
These names are being replaced with names reflecting the Chinese Communist Party ideology.
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