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Pakistan: Mahrang Baloch confirms 2025 Nobel Peace Prize nomination, highl
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Mahrang Baloch, a prominent human rights activist and organiser of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), has confirmed her nomination for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, as reported by the Balochistan Post. While expressing gratitude, Baloch emphasised that the recognition is not for her but for
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Pakistan: HRFP calls for gender justice and equality on International Wome
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Under the UN theme, "For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment," the event brought together voices from various sectors to call for systemic change and gender justice.
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Pakistan: Balochistan continues to see cases of enforced disappearances
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Leading Baloch human rights organization, Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) shared on Friday the details of two Baloch youth forcibly abducted and gave a call to stop the 'Baloch genocide'.
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26/11 accused Tahawwur Rana claims health risks, torture if extradited to
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Tahawwur Rana, accused in the 26/11 attacks, has approached the US Supreme Court seeking an emergency stay on his extradition to India.
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NHRC to investigate Nepalese student's death, student brutality in Bhubane
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) member Priyank Kanoongo, announced that a senior team of NHRC officials will visit Bhubaneswar on Thursday to investigate the death of the Nepalese student and the alleged brutality against students protesting at KIIT University.
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China unlawfully detains thousands, convicts 1,545 'prisoners of conscienc
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a non-governmental organization consisting of domestic and international rights activists, stated that the extent of unlawful detention by Chinese authorities could amount to crimes against humanity.
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Pakistan: JSFM condemns state crackdown on Sindh University protesters
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Many protesting students were injured and arrested due to police brutality. The students belonged to the Jeay Sindh Students Federation (JSSF) and Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Bashir and Arisar factions, along with other nationalist entities.
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Thai Rights Groups condemn Uyghur deportations to China, urge UN to suspen
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Thai human rights advocates on Tuesday voiced their disapproval regarding the government's decision to deport 40 Uyghurs back to China, asserting that the United Nations should consider expelling Thailand from its Human Rights Council.
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Farmer leader Gurbachan Singh Chhaba criticises Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, a
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
He said, "Bhagwant Mann government is playing into the hands of Centre to violate the human rights of farmers. People will never accept this. We will burn the effigy of Bhagwant Mann. We will demand that farmers be allowed to protest and their demand be met. Our demands are not unlawful...We
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'Probe into Nepali student's death at KIIT to conclude by March 10,' says
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has initiated a probe into the death of a Nepali student at KIIT University in Odisha following allegations of assault on protesting students.
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Uyghur activists to gather in Munich for summits on human rights and China
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has announced that the Third East Turkistan/Uyghur Summit and the Uyghur Youth Summit will take place in Germany's Munich from May 23-25.
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India slams UN Human Rights Chief's "baseless" remarks on Kashmir, Manipur
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
"At a larger level, we are concerned about global updates, oversimplifications of complex issues, sweeping and generalized remarks, usage of loose terminologies and apparent cherry-picking of situations," Bagchi said.
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