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NHRC organises two-day workshop on 'Good Governance in Meghalaya
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 3 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday organised a two day regional workshop on 'Good Governance, Development and Human Rights' in collaboration with the Government of Meghalaya at State Convention Centre in Shillong starting today,
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You can't kill people with steel plates, says SC lawyer Tulsi
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov.2 (ANI): Describing the encounter killing of eight SIMI terrorists as "fake", senior supreme court lawyer K.T.S. Tulsi has urged the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to leave no stone unturned in probing the matter.
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NHRC issue notices to MP Govt., DGP over killing of eight SIMI terrorists
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Nov. 1 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Madhya Pradesh Government, Chief Secretary and state police after eight activists of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI,) who had escaped from the Central Jai
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London: Pak liberals express grave concern on Islamabad's 'milit
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Nov. 1 (ANI): Several prominent liberal, progressive and nationalist intellectuals, human rights and public figures from Pakistan gathered in London for a conference on 'The Future of Pakistan' where they expressed grave concern on Islamabad's militarization of
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Govt. raps Pak, condemns beheading of Indian jawan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Samba (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Oct. 29 (ANI): Condemning the beheading of Indian jawan by Pakistani terrorists in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir, Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh on Saturday said those who talk about violation of human rights will reali
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Dozens of Muslim women reportedly raped in Myanmar's northern Rakhine
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Oct. 27 (ANI): Human rights groups have alleged that dozens of Muslim women have been raped by state security forces in the northern Rakhine State during counter-insurgency operations there.
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CPEC project will suppress and loot us, says Baloch, Sindhi and other mino
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels, [Belgium] Oct. 25: The multi-billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will have its serious implications on the region, said human rights and political activists at an event in Brussels, Belgium.
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NHRC says it has disposed 111, 295 cases in last year
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct.21 (ANI): National Human Rights Commission Chairman Justice H.L. Dattu on Friday said that the institution has disposed of 111, 295 cases, out of which 59,924 had to be dismissed in limini, as these were not in line with the provisions of the protection of the PHR Act
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Brussels-based rights activists aware of developing links between Pakistan
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], Oct.21 (ANI): Human rights activists based in Brussels, Belgium, have noted the strong and deep developing links between Pakistan and Rohingya militants.
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Hospital inferno: NHRC issues notice to Odisha Govt., says hospital '
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 19 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday issued a notice to the Odisha government over the massive at the SUM hospital in which at least 20 people were killed, adding that the hospital in question was reportedly warned as early as in 2013 for
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Pakistan put to death 324 persons having no terror links: Pakistan Human R
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Oct. 15 (ANI): As many as 324 people, most of them having no links to terrorism, were put to death in Pakistan, while another 8,000 prisoners stayed on death row as the 21st constitutional and corresponding amendments to the Army Act 1952, has given the military courts
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NHRC notice to Kerala DGP over man's death in police custody
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 13 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission on Thursday took suo motu cognizance of a report that Kalimuthu, arrested in connection with a theft case, was found dead while in custody at Thalassery Police Station in Kerala on October 9.
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