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Pakistan: Lured by free ration, Hindu minor girl gang raped amid devastati
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], September 7 (ANI): Lured by free ration, a Hindu minor girl was gang raped amid devastating floods in Pakistan's Sindh province.
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Full transcript of Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina's interview with ANI
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], September 4 (ANI): Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in an interview to ANI, said that the country believed in secularism and protecting minorities. She also expressed confidence that Bangladesh was safe from any debt-trap situation that Sri Lanka suffered.
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UP madrassa survey: Child's rights protection body slams Owaisi for "misle
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 1 (ANI): Amid the ongoing row over madrassas, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairman Priyank Kanoongo slammed All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi and said that Owaisi was misleading minorities. He also thanke
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EU welcomes UN report on China's human rights abuse
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], September 1 (ANI): EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell welcomed on Thursday a UN report on what it said was a "rigorous review" of evidence suggesting systemic abuse of Muslim minorities in China.
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China slams UN report on Xinjiang and calls it 'farce'
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 1 (ANI): China on Thursday slammed the UN human rights office over a report that found Beijing's crackdown on ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and called the finding a "farce".
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Much awaited UN report on China says possible crimes against humanity in X
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 1 (ANI): United Nations on Wednesday (local time) accused China of actions that "may constitute international crimes, in particular, crimes against humanity" in its Xinjiang region for mass detention of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.
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Pakistan's legal system needs 'urgent reform' to protect safety, dignity o
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 1 (ANI): Amid the persecution of minorities in Pakistan, the legal system of the country is in need of urgent reform to protect the safety and dignity of the minorities including the Ahmadi community, according to a media report.
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Slavery in China: UN report exposes skeleton in the cupboard
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Beijing [China], August 31 (ANI): The report of a U.N. investigator has now exposed the skeleton in the cupboard: contemporary forms of slavery are practised in China in the shape of forced labour for the Uyghur minorities in the Xinjiang region as well as in Tibet which has been under the i
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Atrocities against women continues in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 31 (ANI): The targeting of religious minorities, especially women, has been continuing in Pakistan recently a Hindu girl returned to her family after enduring two years of gang rape by her abductors, local media reported.
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Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Committee delegation meets Pak High Commissioner, dema
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 29 (ANI): A delegation of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) on Tuesday met the High Commissioner of Pakistan (Political Attache) Aizaz khan in connection with the recent incident of kidnapping of a Sikh girl Bibi Deena Kaur in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa p
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India calls on Pakistan to stop discriminatory approach towards minorities
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI): India on Thursday called on Pakistan to stop its discriminatory approach toward minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs and Christians after a Sikh girl was forcibly abducted and converted to Islam on the evening of August 20.
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Freedom of religion under grim state since Taliban seized power in Afghani
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 25 (ANI): Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the country is facing a severe decline in religious freedom as the interim government has failed to safeguard religious minorities, a report by United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (US
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