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UAE highlights its humanitarian role and health response to COVID-19 pande
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations and international organisations in Geneva, in coordination with the Permanent Committee for Human Rights, organised a symposium on the sidelines of the 43rd session of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Huma
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Afghanistan remains one of world's worst humanitarian disasters: Human Rig
Updated : 3 years, 1 month 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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NHRC issues notice to Tamil Nadu govt over deaths in hooch tragedy in coas
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued notice to the Tamil Nadu Government over the death of 20 people after they allegedly consumed spurious liquor in the state's Villupuram and Chengalpattu districts.
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Campaign for Uyghurs lauds Antony Blinken's acknowledgement of organisatio
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
"CFU greatly appreciates @SecBlinken for acknowledging the work we have been doing to expose #China's war on Islam and genocide against #Uyghurs. We will continue to defend the human rights of Uyghurs," Campaign for Uyghurs tweeted on Tuesday.
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China tags Uyghurs as "violent extremists" for possession of the Quran
Updated : 3 years, 1 month 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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Situation of women, girls in Pakistan is critical: Report
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
In the southern province of Sindh, which is home to nearly 90 per cent of the Hindu minority group, forced conversions to Islam of kidnapped Hindu girls and their subsequent forced weddings to Muslim men--usually to the abductors--are quite common, reported HRWF.
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Human Rights Commission Pakistan "deeply concerned" by random arrests of P
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Imran Khan's political outfit, PTI, saw arrests of over 564 workers for violence after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan's arrest and more arrests are being made, according to Dawn.
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UAE presents labour market legislations to Human Rights Council
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Several UAE federal and local government entities as well as civil society organisations constituted the delegation for the country's fourth Human Rights Report at HRC in Geneva.
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Despite US pressure, Iran continues to engage in "constructive cooperation
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Nasser Kanaani, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, has said that despite political pressure from the United States to its allies, the Islamic Republic's principled stance is to maintain constructive collaboration and contact with the UN Human Rights system, IRNA reported.
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US raises concern over human rights, press freedom in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
"The United States wants to see the upholding of the democratic principles and law in Pakistan," Vedant Patel said in a statement while reacting to political developments in Pakistan.
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Police used excessive force against Imran Khan's supporters: Human Rights
Updated : 3 years, 1 month 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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Unstable, volatile Afghanistan causes worry to UN
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Worsening human rights, in particular women's and girls' rights, poverty, hunger, terrorism and the spread of drug trafficking are among the issues that the people of Afghanistan have been facing under Taliban rule.
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