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NCP's Sharad Pawar questions silence of Rajnath, Jaishankar over Blinken's
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 14 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Wednesday questioned the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar for not rebutting United State Secretary of State Antony Blinken's remarks on 'human rig
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Afghanistan: Rights issues occurred before, after Taliban takeover, says U
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], April 13 (ANI): Significant human rights issues occurred before and after the Taliban took over on August 15, 2021, the State Department said in its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices on Tuesday.
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Blinken says China continues to commit human rights abuses in Xinjiang
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], April 13 (ANI): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused China of committing gross human rights violations, particularly in the Xinjiang region, in a speech on the annual human rights report released on Tuesday.
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Systematic Uyghur genocide depicts human rights abuses against ethnic mino
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], April 11 (ANI): The systematic Uyghur genocide by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang characterizes the human rights abuses committed by China against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities, said a media report.
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Iran sanctions 24 Americans over terrorism, human rights abuse
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Tehran [Iran], April 9 (ANI/Sputnik): Iran's Foreign Ministry published a list of 24 former senior US officials and other US citizens sanctioned over their involvement in terrorist acts and gross violations of human rights.
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UN Watch's Neuer urges Geneva Summit to expel Russia, China, Pakistan from
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], April 6 (ANI): Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of United Nations Watch on Wednesday urged the 2022 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy to expel Russia, China, and Pakistan from United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) over Ukraine invasion, human rights abu
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Taliban has begun to show its true colours: European think tank
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands], April 4 (ANI): Amid the continuing concern over human rights violations in Afghanistan, a European think tank said that the Taliban has in recent weeks "begun to show its true colours."
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Bangladeshi PM slams US sanctions on elite force, says it's 'condemnable a
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 29 (ANI): Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday slammed the US sanctions on officials of the country's Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) over alleged rights abuse, saying the move was "very condemnable act".
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886 civilians killed, wounded or kidnapped in Mali: UN
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Bamako [Mali], March 25 (ANI/Xinhua): At least 886 civilians were killed, injured or missing in Mali in the second half of last year, the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said in a note published on Thursday.
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Rights groups raise concerns over Beijing's abuses ahead of EU-China Summi
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Brussels [Belgium] March 23 (ANI): Ahead of EU-China Summit later this year, a group of rights organisations have written a joint letter to EU leaders to express their concerns over China's abysmal abuses, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet.
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US imposes travel bans on Chinese officials for repression of ethnic, reli
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 22 (ANI): The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials for their involvement in the repression of ethnic and religious minority groups inside and outside the border of China.
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Human Rights Watch calls on UN to hold Myanmar military accountable for hu
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 19 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch on Friday, called upon the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to act against the Myanmar military's human rights abuses by imposing economic sanctions and preventing the flow of weapons.
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