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Pak rights group voices concern about enforced disappearances bill
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Enforced disappearances must be treated as a separate, autonomous crime. Any legislation to curb this practice must provide guarantees that anyone deprived of their liberty is kept in a fully authorised place of detention and victims, their families and witnesses provided protection in case
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2014 Peshawar attack was carried out by terrorists but facilitated by Pak
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
The TTP created havoc in Pakistan with several attacks between 2007-2014. The TTP members had fled to Afghanistan after Islamabad launched widescale operations against the group following the Peshawar attack. But recent Pakistan media has published reports that suggest the resurgence of the
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New HRW report details Taliban abuse faced by Afghan women protesters
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch released a new report on the mistreatment of Afghan women. Taliban has wrongfully detained a number of women with their families for protesting against them.
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74 pc of Bangladeshis think that Chinese govt is repressive towards Uighur
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 23 (ANI): As many as 74 percent of Bangladeshi citizens think that the Chinese government is repressive towards Uyghur Muslims while 24 per cent think that they are being persecuted just because of their religious identity, according to a survey.
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Xi's attempts to mould Buddhism, Islam make CCP a laughing stock
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 22 (ANI): Tibet and the Xinjiang region have become prime targets of Sinicization and two assertions of Chinese President Xi Jinping about the regions would elicit a horselaugh.
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Tibetans suffering under authoritarian rule of China
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], October 22 (ANI): Tibetans called on China to stop human rights violations as they are suffering under the authoritarian rule of Beijing.
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FATF must not entertain Pakistan request to take it off Grey List: Activis
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, October 21 (ANI): The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) should take notice of more than 500 mutilated and unknown bodies which were found on the rooftop of a public hospital in Multan in Pakistan, said Baseer Naveed, Executive Director of Hong-Kong based International Human Right
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New tactic by China to hide Xinjiang atrocities
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 21 (ANI): As part of China's efforts to counter criticisms of its human rights abuses, female China-based ethnic-minority influencers from troubled frontier regions of Xinjiang use sophisticated content with a more authentic feel to convey a false sense of legitimacy
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Pak Army intensifies Baloch genocide from aid by Canadian firm: Baloch Nat
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], October 21 (ANI): Drawing parallels with the exploitative projects of China in Balochistan, Baloch activists termed the international investment by a Canadian firm, Barrick Gold, in the province a "double standard" by the west and urged the firm to avoid investing in
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Women protesters in Afghan detail Taliban abuse: Report
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], October 20 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday released a new report detailing the mistreatment of Afghan women, who were wrongfully detained with their families for protesting Taliban abuses.
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OSCE opens poll observation mission in Kazakhstan, stations 30 observers
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Astana [Kazakhstan], October 20 (ANI): The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has opened an election observation mission for the November 20 presidential election in Kazakhstan, following an official invitation from the national authorities and in accordance wit
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Sri Lanka: SC orders to issue summons to former Prez Gotabaya in 2011 huma
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], October 19 (ANI): Sri Lankan Supreme Court on Wednesday has given orders to summon former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the disappearance of two human rights activists in 2011 as he is now out of constitutional powers.
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