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Pakistan effects deep cut in PoK budget, activist calls situation 'alarmin
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Muzaffarabad [PoK], June 2 (ANI): Highlighting the plight of the people of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK), human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) Shaukat Ali Kashmiri said that the Pakistani government has cut the PoK development budget by Rs 2.
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Rights group call for urgent debate on women's rights crisis in Afghanista
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 1 (ANI): The world's worst women's rights crisis demands an urgent and proportionate response from the UN Human Rights Council, urged a coalition of 25 leading NGOs from all world regions on Wednesday.
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US 'smears' our normal cooperation with Pacific nations: China
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 1 (ANI): China on Wednesday opposed the recent US-New Zealand joint statement, saying it "distorts and smears" the country's normal cooperation with Pacific Island nations and "deliberately hypes" up the issues in the South China Sea.
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Tiananmen Square's 'Pillar of Shame' statue replica to be unveiled in Taiw
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Taipei [Taiwan], June 1 (ANI): A three-meter tall replica of the "Pillar of Shame" statue honouring the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident will be unveiled at a commemorative vigil in Taiwan on Saturday evening, local media reported.
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Refusing to Disappear: Daughter shares soul-rending ordeals after father '
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 31 (ANI): Aymun Sajid, daughter of Sajid Mehmood, who was abducted on the evening of spring 2016 by "Pakistan's state agencies", remembers the day clearly and still clutches the memories of her "Baba" who never came back.
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Leaked documents help explain CCP's paranoia over Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Hong Kong, May 31 (ANI): A cache of tens of thousands of leaked documents from the Chinese police and re-education camps have confirmed that the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) - reaching right to Chairman Xi Jinping at the top - are totally complicit in the human rights
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Xi backs new Hong Kong leader John Lee who oversaw crackdown on democracy
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], May 31 (ANI): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday met newly appointed Hong Kong chief executive, John Lee and thanked him for achieving a major transition in the city what he described as from "chaos to order."
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Johnson, Shehbaz Sharif discuss UK-Pakistan trade, Ukraine conflict over p
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London [UK], May 31 (ANI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday and discussed a range of issues including trade, the human rights situation in Afghanistan and the Ukraine conflict.
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UK slams China for failure to grant UN official unfettered access to Xinji
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], May 31 (ANI): The Chinese authorities did not provide unfettered access to Xinjiang during UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet's 6-day official visit, said the United Kingdom government on Monday, adding that its failure to grant such access only serves to hi
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Taliban crackdown on journalists continues, another Afghan scribe disappea
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [US], May 31 (ANI): Raising concerns about the increasing human rights issues in Afghanistan, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said the Taliban must investigate the disappearance of journalist Ali Akbar Khairkhah and ensure that local officials allow female journa
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Human Rights Groups demand resignation of UN rights chief, term her China
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], May 30 (ANI): A Human Rights group has demanded the resignation of the United Nations High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet stating that she insulted the Uyghur victims of genocide and failed her duty as High Commissioner.
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Pakistan's water crisis to cause interprovincial rivalry, deteriorate huma
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 30 (ANI): The severe water crisis in Pakistan may create fissures between the two major coalition partners -- Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) --and can further deteriorate the human rights situation in Balochistan.
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