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Geneva: Protest held outside UN Office against atrocities against minoriti
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Protestors across different faiths--Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, and Ahmadi Muslims--were joined by Swiss nationals who demonstrated solidarity with the cause.
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Pakistan: Hindu girl abducted, forcibly married in Sindh
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Despite her statement in the court, expressing her desire to be with her family, the additional session judge decided to send her to Darul Aman, the so-called safe house.
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"Defender of Constitutional and Human Liberties" Justice K.V. Viswanathan
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Sonipat (Haryana) [India], October 17: "Soli J. Sorabjee was a Defender of the Constitution and Human Liberties," said Justice K.V. Viswanathan Judge, Supreme Court of India at the Soli J. Sorabjee Memorial Lecture organized by O.P Jindal Global University to honour the memory of renowned ju
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Pakistan: Protests in Sindh as govt fails to rescue victims of abduction
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The organisers of the Minority Rights and Aurat March held their second protest at Teen Talwar in Karachi’s Clifton on Monday to condemn the failure of the police and the caretaker Sindh cabinet in ensuring the recovery of kidnap victims, Sagar Kumar and Priya Kumari, Dawn reported.
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Pakistan: Rights organisation criticises plight of non-Muslims
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The speakers "condemned" the state's role in the rise of violence against minorities, as well as its inability to safeguard marginalised groups in society
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Minority Rights March held in Pakistan against forced conversions
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The march emphasized the need for legislation that criminalizes forced conversion, a concern that has troubled minorities for a long. The participants came from Hindu, Christian, Sikh and other religious minority communities in Pakistan.
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"There is discrimination...": Asaduddin Owaisi hits out at PM Modi over hi
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"The Prime Minister of India took questions for the first time in 9 years and to a specific question, he claimed there was no discrimination against religious minorities in India. As many as 300 churches were burnt in Manipur. Isn't that discrimination? The CAA was formulated on the basis
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Pakistan: Rights activists raise concern over targeted killing of minoriti
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Minority rights activists have raised concern over the targeted killing of non-Muslims in Peshawar and have demanded the provincial government to take immediate steps to arrest the killers and to provide compensation to the families concerned
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Religious extremism on minority rights needs to be addressed: Internationa
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"I would like to say that we are happy to be resourceful individuals in our capacity to eliminate this crisis in the future. This matter which is right in front of us today is not a mere topic of discussion, but something that is really out there in the world that needs to be addressed, so i
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Pakistan: Minority Rights Commission head says property of minorities wort
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Shoaib Sadal told the two-judge bench headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan that the provincial governments were not cooperating with the Commission with regard to the details of assets.
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UP Minister Danish Azad Ansari calls on PM Modi
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
During the meeting, Danish Azad Ansari apprised the PM about the work being done by his ministry, as well as the science exhibition organized in madrassas across the state on the occasion of Minority Rights Day.
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US lawmaker from New York extends support to Sindhi people amid Pak rights
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [US], July 22 (ANI): A US lawmaker from the city of New York has extended strong support to the Sindhi people in Pakistan against the human rights atrocities that have been inflicted upon them for years.
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