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China must address human rights violations, world must not turn a blind ey
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 7 (ANI): Independent UN experts said on Wednesday that profound concerns over systematic human rights violations and their widespread effect on individuals and minorities in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region cannot, and should not, be ignored by the in
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China-backed controversial mega project in Myanmar rapidly becoming human
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], September 7 (ANI): Rising incidents of human trafficking have alarmed human rights activists, with reports that the Shwe Kokko New City in southeast Myanmar's Karen State has become a people-trafficking hub.
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Sri Lanka: UN report urges progress on institutional, security reforms
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 6 (ANI): Sri Lanka's new Government should embark on a national dialogue to advance human rights and reconciliation, a UN report urged on Tuesday, calling for accountability and deeper institutional reforms to prevent a recurrence of past violations.
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Pakistan Army violates human rights in draconian response to target PTM
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 6 (ANI): The Pakistan Army has committed many grave human rights violations in order to target the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) with its draconian response.
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China's angry defense of its "serious human rights violations" in Xinjiang
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Hong Kong, September 6 (ANI): The Chinese government reacted furiously to the release of a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 31 August, calling it "wholly illegal and invalid".
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Human Rights Watch asks UN not to renew travel ban waiver on Taliban offic
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 5 (ANI): Amid the ongoing political isolation of Afghanistan due to their atrocities on women and young girls in the country, the Human Rights Watch has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) not to extend the existing government officials' travel exe
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Baloch rights activists demand release of missing persons in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], September 4 (ANI): Human rights activists and various student bodies in Pakistan staged a protest on Tuesday and demanded the immediate release of all the missing persons including Faheem Baloch.
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UN's deputy rep to Afghanistan Potzel calls for formation of inclusive gov
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 4 (ANI): The deputy head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Markus Potzel, called for the formation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan and said that the Taliban must obtain domestic recognition to be recognized by the international comm
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Pak rights minister highlights plight of Ahmadis as Nobel laureate's grave
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 3 (ANI): Pakistan human rights minister Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Friday said that the Ahmadi minority community in the country is being subjected to grave human rights violations and because of the deep fear instilled in them no one even dares to mention the na
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Taiwan calls for Dalai Lama's visit to Taipei during celebrations of Tibet
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], September 3 (ANI): Taiwan Parliament Group along with other rights groups has called for the Dalai Lama's visit to Taipei over the human rights situation in Tibet.
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Uyghur woman writes memoir about her gory experience inside China's detent
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 2 (ANI): In view of a recent UN report that exposed severe human rights violations in China's Xinjiang, Gulbahar Haitiwaji became the first Uyghur woman to write a memoir about her gory experience inside the detention facilities in the region.
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"This is going to be a major headache for China", says expert after UN dro
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 2 (ANI): Just minutes before her four-year term ended, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in her long-awaited report on Wednesday outlined China's crimes against humanity due to its "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other
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