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BASC-SOAS Seminar highlights systematic human rights abuses against Baloch
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The Baloch Advocacy and Studies Centre held its first public seminar in London, highlighting serious human rights abuses against Baloch people in Iran and Pakistan, including killings and disappearances. Experts, activists, and UN representatives called for international attention and jus
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At 50-year diplomatic milestone, EU slams China's repression in Tibet, cit
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The summit, which also marked 50 years of EU-China diplomatic ties, brought together top-level leaders, including European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU High Representative Josep Borrell, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Despite a f
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Amnesty International marks 10 years since China's '709 Crackdown', calls
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Amnesty International has issued a joint statement commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Chinese government's "709" crackdown on human rights lawyers, urging for an independent international inquiry into the decade-long persecution of civil society and human rights activists in China. Th
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2024 HRCP Report exposes worsening human rights emergency across Pakistan
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's 2024 report highlights democratic decline, rising militancy, enforced disappearances, and human rights abuses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It notes blasphemy-related violence, child and gender-based abuse, labour violations, and environmental crises, paint
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Baloch youth hunted and executed by Pakistan's military death squads
Updated : 10 months, 4 weeks ago IST
21-year-old Zeeshan Baloch was abducted and killed in Balochistan, hours after a protest by his family. BYC blamed Pakistan's military-backed death squads and called it part of ongoing state violence against Baloch youth. His death highlights the region's continuing crisis of enforced disapp
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Pashtun Activist urges UNHRC to act on Pakistan's rights abuses at 59th Se
Updated : 11 months ago IST
At the UNHRC session in Geneva, Pashtun activist Fazal-ur-Rehman Afridi accused Pakistan of serious human rights violations against Pashtuns, including drone strikes, enforced disappearances, and torture. He urged the UN to act and send an investigative commission to address the abuses. Read More
At UNSC India rejects Pakistan's "nefarious agenda" condemns its rampant c
Updated : 11 months ago IST
"India had undertaken non-escalatory, proportionate and focused attacks that targeted nine terrorist infrastructure sites on the 7 May 2025 in response through Operation Sindoor," Harish said. "The terrorists killed in these attacks were given state funerals by Pakistan. And yet, they try t
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Geneva: UKPNP leaders demand UN action on human rights violations in PoJK,
Updated : 11 months ago IST
The United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) held a demonstration outside the United Nations headquarters in Geneva during the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The protest aimed to spotlight severe human rights abuses in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK
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MQM leader Altaf Hussain urges India to speak up against 'genocide' of Moh
Updated : 11 months ago IST
He appealed to PM Modi to take "immediate notice" of the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Pakistan Army, specifically pointing to events that began on June 19, 1992, when military operations were launched against Mohajirs.
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Stalin's alliance with Congress is stark display of political opportunism:
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Launching an attack against the DMK and Congress alliance, the statement said that DMK Chief Minister Stalin's alliance with the Congress party is a stark display of political opportunism. Given the Congress party's dark history of human rights abuses and loss of life during the Emergency, t
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Iranian regime remains the greatest threat to Middle-East peace, says West
Updated : 11 months ago IST
Catherine Perez-Shakdam criticised Iran for denying a Trump-brokered ceasefire with Israel, accusing it of spreading disinformation and pursuing regional dominance. She warned of continued instability unless the Iranian regime falls and praised Israel's recent actions against Iran's nuclear
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WUC marks Uyghur language day, commemorates 1988 student protests amid ong
Updated : 11 months, 1 week ago IST
The Director of the Education Committee at World Uyghur Congress (WUC), Abdureshit Niyazkaramay, highlighted the significance of Uyghur Language Day, which was initiated by the WUC in 2015, and marked the 37th anniversary of the 1988 Uyghur Student Protests in Urumchi, according to a stat
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