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SWASTI calls for joint action to protect women's right, sexual minori
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 9 (ANI): On the occasion of the Human Rights Day, Swasti, a health resource centre, is rallying people to end all discrimination against women, sexual minorities and people living with HIV (PLHIV) at the workplace - by developing a progressive employment policy and p
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Create society which respects, protects human rights: Dattu
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec. 9 (ANI): On the eve of Human Rights Day, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairperson Justice H.L. Dattu called on the people of the nation to join hands to create a society in which human rights of every individual are respected and protected in our quest for
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Arrest, deportation of Baloch and human rights activists by Thailand invit
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bangkok [Thailand], Nov.30 (ANI): The detention and deportation of two Baloch political activists and a human rights campaigner by authorities in Thailand has invited global condemnation.
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ACHR welcomes NHRC recommendation in Bara massacre case
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.29 (ANI): The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) today welcomed the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to commute the death sentence of four death row convicts i.e. Krishna Mochi, Nanhe Lal Mochi, Bir K
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Trump must pressure UN to drop war crime charges against Lanka, says Presi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov.27 (ANI); Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has asked U.S. president elect Donald Trump to put pressure on the UN Human Rights Council to drop war crimes allegations against his country's troops.
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HRC issues notice to TN Govt. over hospital diagnosing false pregnancy
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Tamil Nadu [India], Nov. 26 (ANI): The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has issued a notice to the Tamil Nadu government after a government hospital wrongly diagnosing a woman with tumor as pregnant.
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Pakistan's Balochistan province facing devastating human rights crisi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan]/Brussels[Belgium], Nov.23 (ANI): Balochistan, the largest and resource-rich province of Pakistan, has been facing the worst human rights crisis where the Baloch are being suppressed.
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Human Rights Watch asks Afghan Govt for plan protecting Shia minority
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], Nov. 22 (ANI): Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that the Afghan government should develop a security plan to better protect minority Shia during high-profile public events.
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In Nepal, 'scant progress on justice' as govts fail to deliver o
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York (United States), Nov. 19 (ANI): Even 10 years after signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA), which brought an end to the civil war started by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in 1996, successive Nepali governments have failed to deliver on its central human rights promi
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European Parliament Conference discusses rights violations in Gilgit-Balti
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Brussels [Belgium], Nov. 12 (ANI): Josep-Maria Terricabras MEP (Greens/EFA) and the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) in partnership with Mahatma Gandhi International, recently convened a high-level conference entitled "A Recipe for Disaster: Environmental Degradatio
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AHRC demands global probe of WANA business centre demolition by Pakistan A
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong [China], Nov.11 (ANI): The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has urged the international community, particularly the Human Rights Commission of UN, to probe the killings of citizens of South Waziristan in the name of the military-backed Operation Zarb-e-Azb.
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EU rights activists shocked over Waziristan market demolition as punishmen
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium]/Geneva [Switzerland], Nov. 6 (ANI): European Union human rights watchdogs and rights activists based in Brussels and Geneva have expressed shock and dismay over the Pakistan Army and local authorities move to dynamite and demolish the Al-Muhib market in the popular Rustam
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