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NHRC seeks action-taken report from Assam govt in doctor assault case
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 4 (ANI): Taking cognisance of a complaint about the assault on a doctor by the relatives of a COVID patient who died at a hospital in Hojai district of Assam, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday called for the action taken report from Assam governmen
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China opposes Blinken's remarks on Tiananmen massacre, calls it 'political
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], June 4 (ANI): China on Friday opposed remarks made by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre and termed the widespread crackdown as a "political turmoil".
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UK's 'Uyghur Tribunal' begins to investigate atrocities in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], June 4 (ANI): A panel of Britain-based lawyers and rights experts examining human rights violations and reports of genocide in China's Xinjiang region began hearing in London on Thursday.
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Amid human rights abuses by China, Australia's Uyghurs in despair over dis
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], June 4 (ANI): As Beijing continues its human rights abuses against ethnic minority communities in Xinjiang, Uyghurs living in Australia are left in despair over the 'disappearance' of their relatives in China.
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Abstained on previous occasions too, position not new, says India on UNHRC
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): India's decision to abstain at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) during the resolution to probe the Gaza conflict is not new and the country has abstained on previous occasions too, External Affairs Ministry said on Thursday.
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'Uyghur Martyrs' Road', 'Free Hong Kong Road': Budapest streets renamed in
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Budapest [Hungary], June 3 (ANI): The Budapest authorities have decided to rename the streets in the Hungarian capital near a planned campus of a Chinese university to commemorate human rights abuses by China.
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NHRC seeks case details, compensation over farmer activist rape at Tikri b
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 3 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had directed the Superintendent of Police, Jhajjar in Haryana, to submit a factual report on the alleged rape and subsequent death of a woman farmer activist from West Bengal who joined the farmers protest at Delhi-
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Pak rights commission raises concern over media censorship
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed "grave concern" over the growing climate of fear, violence, and censorship that currently underpins freedom of expression in the country.
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Rights group highlights 'harassment' of Christian family in Pakistan's Pun
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): The Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) has condemned the murder of Arif Masih, a 32-year-old Christian of a village in Toba Tek Singh district in Pakistan's Punjab province.
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Imran Khan should be ashamed of telling lies about freedom of press in Pak
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 2 (ANI): After an attack on Pakistani journalist Asad Ali Toor, opposition leader and chairman of National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Imran Khan should be ashamed while telling lies to the
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Former SC judge Arun Kumar Mishra to take charge as NHRC chairman today
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 2 (ANI): Former Supreme Court judge Arun Kumar Mishra will take charge as the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday.
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NHRC issues advisories to Centre on issues of mental health, bonded labour
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued three more advisories to the Centre, States and Union Territories (UT) administrations calling for specific action within four weeks on the issues of mental health, bonded labourers and migrant informal secto
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