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Afghan women need global action to halt Taliban abuse
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [US], August 17 (ANI): Afghan women feel abandoned by the world and they are justified in feeling this way, said Heather Barr, Associate Director, Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday.
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India contributes USD 400,000 to UN trust funds, underlines unwavering sup
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 16 (ANI): Reflecting its commitment to global promotion and protection of human rights and support for UN Human Rights, India has contributed USD 400,000 to four voluntary trust funds.
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Ill-executed withdrawal of US questions Biden's competence as Taliban comp
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 16 (ANI): A year after the Taliban completes a year in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US troops, US President Joe Biden's competence has been heavily questioned as the ill-executed withdrawal of the American forces led to the imposition of the brutal Tali
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Repression of ethnic minorities intensifies in China under Xi's leadership
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 16 (ANI): Amid Xi Jinping's quest to implement a one nation, one race in China, the country's ethnic minorities continue to suffer discrimination and have been facing severe human rights violations in the country.
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UN official condemns use of force to suppress women's protests in Afghanis
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 15 (ANI): UN's special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett condemned the "use of excessive force" to suppress women's protests, calling it a breach of their right to freedom of expression.
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London-based activist decries atrocities in PoK, slams Pak security agenci
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Dublin [Ireland], August 14 (ANI): London-based rights activist Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri once again raised his voice against the Pakistan security agencies which continue to commit rights abuses in the region and deprive the local people of basic rights.
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Taliban failed to form "an inclusive political system": EU
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], August 14 (ANI): The Taliban which seized power in Afghanistan a year ago and formed a new government, failed to form "an inclusive political system" and continue to violate human rights, the EU External Action Service (EEAS) said on Sunday.
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60-year-old man was stabbed to death in Pakistan's Punjab province
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 14 (ANI): Amid continuing targeted killings of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan, a 60-year-old man from the Ahmadiyya community was stabbed to death in Chenabnagar city of Punjab province.
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Future of women and girls in Afghanistan 'bleak', warn UN experts
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 13 (ANI): UN experts on Friday called on the international community yet again to restore the declining human rights situation in Afghanistan and warned that the future of the country is bleak for its women and girls.
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Pakistan: Seminary teacher held for assaulting minor boy
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 13 (ANI): Amid the worsened human rights situation in Pakistan, a local seminary teacher was arrested for allegedly molesting a student, local media reported on Saturday citing a police official.
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Pak govt must introduce measures against forced conversions: Human rights
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], August 12 (ANI): Human rights activists have called upon the Pakistan government to introduce legal and administrative safeguards for the protection of minorities against human rights violations and their forced conversions.
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NHRC intervention in death case of 2 labourers results in compensation of
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): In a case related to the death of two labourers in a stone mine accident in Koderma, Jharkhand, the National Human Rights Commission's intervention resulted in allocation of a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the kin of each deceased by the mine owner.
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