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NHRC issues notice to Maharashtra govt over death of four sewage workers
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
NHRC India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that four people, all aged about 20 years, died of suffocation after inhaling toxic gases while cleaning a private sewage treatment plant in a residential township in Virar area of Mumbai in Maharashtra, said an official statement fr
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UN experts lambast Pakistan for failing to stop forced conversions, marria
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have been coerced are validated by the courts, often invoking religious law to justify keeping victims with their abductors rather tha
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UN experts condemn forced marriages, religious conversions in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.
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Human Rights Forum of Sindh organises protest camp for freedom for missing
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh and the 'Sindh Sajagi Forum' organised a protest camp here for the freedom of missing Sindhi workers.
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Eminent Buddhist teacher Arjia Rinpoche gives first-hand information about
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Internationally known Buddhist teacher Lobsang Tubten Jigme Gyatso, prominently known as the Arjia Rinpoche, revealed to Japanese lawmakers the ongoing human rights violations in Tibet inflicted by China.
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Chinese fashion retailer Shein faces boycott for alleged Uyghur forced lab
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
As Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid ul-Fitr, the human rights organisation has called on Muslim women to boycott Shein, alleging it is involved in the forced labour of Uyghur Muslims in China.
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Human rights organisation condemns enforced disappearances of Baloch youth
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The human rights department of the Baloch National Movement condemned another case of enforced disappearance from the Khuzdar district of Balochistan on Wednesday.
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Uyghur Congress demands German Councilor to raise human rights issues duri
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), in a joint letter to the Federal German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, urged him to raise the issue of Human rights situation and atrocities in Tibet, East Turkestan, Hong Kong, Southern Mongolia and China itself.
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Baloch activists urge people to participate in protest against Baloch geno
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Mahrang Baloch expressed her concerns over the ongoing genocide in Balochistan.
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International court finds Switzerland guilty of human rights violation in
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
This landmark judgment, handed down by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, emerged from a case initiated by over 2,000 Swiss women, the majority of whom are in their 70s.
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Human rights report exposes alarming rate of missing persons in Balochista
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
At least 24 individuals were forcibly disappeared in Balochistan by Pakistani forces, two were extrajudicially killed, and 21 tortured victims were released, according to the latest report in March by Paank, the human rights department of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), revealed alarming
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Social activists in London raise issues of labeling Pashtun minorities as
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
While speaking about the condition of human rights in Pakistan, Azeem Masih, the Vice President of PMRO Pakistan, stated, "We discuss human rights issues everywhere. But I think that the issues in Pakistan are much more tense than anywhere else, especially because minorities in Pakistan are
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