Search For "minority group"
Pakistan: NCHR members seek inclusion of minorities in policymaking proces
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], December 15 (ANI): National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) members have stressed the need for taking non-Muslims on board in the legislative and policymaking process during a consultative meeting on the rights of minority groups held here on Monday.
Read More
Members of civil society, minority groups in Pakistan's Sindh province hol
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Civil Society organisations and members of minority communities in Pakistan's Sindh province held rallies against 'forced conversion' to mark the occasion of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Day and demanded that the government to enact and eff
Read More
French artist paints portrait of Uyghur activist on building in Marseille
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Paris [France] October 20 (ANI): A French artist painted a portrait of an activist from the Uyghur community on a building in Marseille city, in a bid to raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Muslim minority group in China's Xinjiang region.
Read More
Taliban isolated, silenced female population in Afghanistan and left them
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], October 14 (ANI): With the Taliban back at the helm in Afghanistan and the country's humanitarian and economic crises deepening, many Afghans are living in fear, especially women and minority groups. Despite the group's claim to be more moderate, reports of violence by Taliban f
Read More
Think tank flags concerns over China's use of DNA profiling against Uyghur
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], August 30 (ANI): Amid the mounting accusation of large-scale human rights violations and persecution of Uyghurs by China, fresh reports have emerged where the Chinese authorities are said to be racially profiling minority group to build a large DNA database.
Read More
Postpone, relocate 2022 Winter Olympics if China does not end abuses: US l
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], July 25 (ANI): A group of US lawmakers has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to postpone the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and relocate the games unless China ends the ongoing "genocide" against Uyghurs and other minority groups.
Read More
Tibet, China's pioneer in social control
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Hong Kong, May 10 (ANI): As much as China is trying to silence critics and hide its pogroms against Uyghurs in Xinjiang, more and more is being exposed of its horrendous human rights abuses there. Unfortunately, China will not settle for just exorcising Uyghur culture, as other minority grou
Read More
Greater risk of poor COVID outcomes in minority ethnic groups in England:
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Cambridge [England], May 1 (ANI): Minority ethnic groups had a higher risk of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and of COVID-19-related hospitalisations, intensive care (ICU) admissions and death compared with white groups in England, according to an observational study published in The Lancet
Read More
Uyghur body supports complaint against French brands over link to forced l
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Munich [Germany], April 10 (ANI): A pro-Uyghur body has endorsed the formal complaint submitted by a French lawyer against four France-based multinational companies over allegations of their involvement in forced labour of the Muslim minority group in China
Read More
Biden administration declares Chinese actions in Xinjiang as 'genocide'
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], March 31 (ANI): Amid escalating tensions with Beijing, the Biden administration on Tuesday (local time) declared Chinese actions against the Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang as 'genocide'.
Read More
Ethnic minorities in England less likely to report using e-cigarettes to r
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], March 19 (ANI): Ethnic minority groups may be missing out on a means of reducing smoking, suggest the findings of a new survey.
Read More
Human rights group from Kashmir asks UN to probe mass graves in Gilgit, Ba
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 16 (ANI): In a bid to highlight the plight of minority communities in Pakistan, a human rights group from Kashmir has issued a memorandum calling on United Nations to look into the humanitarian crisis in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and probe the m
Read More