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Dissident voices emerge from China
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Xinjiang, a region dominated by Uyghur Muslims, is experiencing serious human rights abuses where locals are ill-treated, women are violated and activists are picked up and jailed.
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US Senator Marco Rubio reintroduces Uyghur Policy Act
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
US Senator Marco Rubio reintroduced the Uyghur Policy Act. This bipartisan bill would increase US support for the Uyghur diaspora in the United States and other countries, as well as advocate for improving the conditions of Uyghurs in China who suffer human rights abuses at the hands of t
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Uyghur activist asks China to enforce UN recommendations to curb human rig
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Zumretay Arkin of the World Uyghur Congress in her intervention during the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council said, "It is with increasing concern that we monitor the situation in the Uyghur Autonomous Region."
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PoK, Gilgit Baltistan witness rise in human rights abuses, activists infor
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
While giving an intervention during the 52nd Session of the Council, Nasir Aziz Khan, the central spokesperson of the United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) said, "Our organization would like to draw your attention to the serious human rights abuses that are taking place in Pakist
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Defector explains how North Korea's weapons overshadow human rights abuses
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"North Korea is a living hell," Jung Gwang-il, a North Korean defector and president of the No Chain rights organization, told DW on the sidelines of an EU Parliament event last week investigating the dire human rights situation in North Korea.
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US blacklists 37 Chinese, Pakistani firms
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 37 entities to its blacklist for allegedly contributing to Russia's military and defence industrial base, supporting China's military modernisation, and facilitating or engaging in human rights abuses in Myanmar and
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Xinjiang's Governor Tuniyaz despised as a traitor, puppet of Beijing
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Recently, Tuniyaz cancelled a trip to the United Kingdom and the European Union after an outcry from politicians and Uyghur activists who said welcoming him would tacitly condone China's human rights abuses against Uyghurs.
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Pakistan makes failed attempt to block Balochistan documentary by Indian n
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The documentary series describes the rise in alleged state-sponsored killings of the Baloch people
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China' aggression against India, Taiwan 'unacceptable', Republican lawmake
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Several Republican lawmakers, on Wednesday, urged US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to hold China accountable for its human rights abuses and to tell Beijing that their provocative aggression against Taiwan and India is "unacceptable."
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Pak rights group condemns desecration of Ahmadiyya worship site in Punjab
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
This week, the Express Tribune newspaper reported that a historic worship place of the Ahmadi community in Wazirabad was allegedly desecrated by the district administration.
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Pak boy charged with blasphemy for calling god "cruel" on social media
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The danger of blasphemy laws in Pakistan is that blasphemy is not clearly defined, writes Marco Respinti for Bitter Winter. This latest case which last month is a clear example of this ambiguity.
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Ali Wazir: Face of Pakistan's non-violent movement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Wazir has been consistently targeted for his unequivocal criticism of the Pakistani Army and the human rights abuses that the Pashtun ethnic minority face in Waziristan and neighbouring border areas in the former Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA), now a part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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