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Pakistan emerges as 'global leader' in enforced disappearances
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 23 (ANI): Pakistan has emerged as a global leader in cases of enforced disappearances as hundreds simply 'disappear' in the country every month as over 8,000 people have gone missing in the country since 2001, according to a report by Islam Khabar.
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India reiterates end of hostilities in Ukraine, calls for return to diplom
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 23 (ANI): India strongly reiterates the need for an immediate cessation of all hostilities in Ukraine and a return to diplomacy, said envoy to UN in Geneva, Indra Mani Pandey and added that the trajectory of the conflict is a matter of "profound concern."
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Pakistan Frontier Corps breaks into house, assaults Baloch women
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 23 (ANI): The atrocities of the Pakistan military and Frontier Corps on the locals of Balochistan is posing a grave concern. The FC recently attacked a house in the province and assaulted a number of women present inside.
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World Sindhi Congress holds protest in Geneva against Pak crimes
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 23 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) held a large protest in front of the United Nations office in Geneva during the ongoing 51st session of the Human Rights Council on Thursday.
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'Baloch Lives Matter' seminar highlights human rights violations in Baloch
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 23 (ANI): A seminar titled `Baloch Lives Matter: Aspects of human rights violations in Balochistan' was organized by Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) in Geneva on the occasion of the 51st Session of UNHRC on Thursday.
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Uyghur community holds photo exhibition in Vienna to highlight rights abus
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], September 23 (ANI): A photo exhibition was organised by the Uyghur Association in Vienna on September 22 to showcase ongoing human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang province.
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Global Human Rights Defence raises Pakistan's "Silent Genocide" in Geneva
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) delegation in Geneva raised the issue of human rights violations in Pakistan mainly focused on enforced disappearances and genocide including women's rights violations.
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End conflict in Ukraine, return to negotiating table: Jaishankar at UNSC
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], September 22 (ANI): Noting that the trajectory of the Ukraine conflict is a matter of profound concern for the entire international community, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said the world has experienced its consequences in terms of higher costs and sho
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Myanmar spiralling 'from bad to worse, to horrific', says rights expert
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): Since the Myanmar military launched its "disastrous" coup last year, conditions have worsened, said UN-appointed independent human rights expert Tom Andrews on Wednesday.
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High time for Human Rights Council to address issues in Tibet as CCP regim
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], September 22 (ANI): World has turned its attention towards Tibet once again as the United Nations (UN) has failed to discuss the crisis unfolding in Tibet in its fifty-first regular session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva so far despite the unlawful suppression of Tibet
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At HRC, Baloch group requests UN intervention over rights abuses in Pakist
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 22 (ANI): A Baloch rights group has requested UN intervention in the southwestern province of Pakistan to save people suffering from the most severe form of rights violations.
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UK Rights envoy raises concern on 'grave' oppression of Afghan women
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 22 (ANI): As human rights violations continue to take place in Afghanistan, Britain's Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French condemned the suppression of women in Afghanistan and said that the condition for women and girls in the country is deteriorating and the
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