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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.
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China sidelining Tibetan culture, leadership for Beijing's strategic inter
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], December 14 (ANI): China has been relocating Tibetans by demolishing their existing homes and coercing the poor Tibetans to accept fresh village homes in bordering villages with an aim to sideline the minority community and fulfil Beijing's strategic interests, according to
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'Human Rights Focus Pakistan' raises concerns over violation of minority r
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) on Friday raised issues concerned with human rights violations of minorities in Pakistan, marking International Human Rights Day.
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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
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Sindhis in Pakistan hold rallies against `forced' conversions on Human Rig
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Human rights activists and members of the minority communities organised protest rallies in different cities in Pakistan's Sindh province to mark International Human Rights Day on Friday.
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Pakistan intensifies digital crackdown on minorities like Ahmadiyyas
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Amid the already deteriorating condition of the minority communities in Pakistan, the country's telecommunication regulator has begun an intuitional crackdown on minorities like Ahmadiyyas.
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10 Indians, 94 Afghans from Afghanistan evacuated under operation Devi Sha
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 10 (ANI): A special flight on Friday brought 10 Indians and 94 Afghans including members of the Hindu-Sikh minority community from Afghanistan to the national capital under operation Devi Shakti as a part of an evacuation mission undertaken by India, the Ministry
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PM Modi's constant effort is to make India 'Krishi Pradhan': Mukhtar Abbas
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constant effort is to make the country 'Krishi Pradhan', said the Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Thursday.
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US House passes bill to ban imports from China's Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill by a vote of 428 to 1 banning imports from China's Xinjiang made with forced labour and threatening sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for persecuting the minority community.
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Tibetan representative at UN forum highlights ongoing rights situation in
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], November 8 (ANI): The Tibet Bureau in Geneva attended the UN forum on minority issues to underline the ongoing human rights situation in Tibet, and called on China to address grievances faced by Tibetans.
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A thousand minority girls, women abducted, converted to Islam, married off
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 8 (ANI): Over a thousand minor girls and women from Pakistan's religious minorities including Hindus and Christians are abducted, forcefully converted to Islam and are married off every year, revealed a new report.
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6,57,802 youths have so far received training under Centre's schemes for s
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 6 (ANI): The Ministry of Minority Affairs on Monday informed of the several schemes it has undertaken for the upliftment of the welfare and socio-economic empowerment of the six notified minority communities namely Muslims, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jains and
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