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Afghanistan: Women's rights activist released from prison after three mont
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Julia Parsi, a women's rights activist in Afghanistan, has been released from prison by the Taliban administration after three months on Monday, Khaama Press reported citing sources.
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'Pakistan an exploiter of human rights': Rights Activist Arif Aajikia
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Emphasising the ongoing human rights violations in Pakistan's Balochistan and Sindh, Arif Aajikia, a former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) member and human rights activist from Karachi, Pakistan, said that Pakistan is an "exploiter of human rights, adding that the army's military rule is uno
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"Human rights, culture, language, heritage being killed in PoK," says righ
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
In an exclusive interview with ANI, Aajikia said, "The biggest thing in human rights is your culture, your food, your dress, your language, your heritage, which is being killed in PoK."
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Jailed activist Narges Mohammadi decries "tyrannical" Iranian regime in No
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A strong message against the "tyrannical" and "despotic religious government" of Iran echoed in Oslo on Sunday, as the children of jailed Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi delivered her message while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf, New York Times reported.
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Afghanistan: Girls studying in sixth grade urge Taliban to not stop them f
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Afghan girls called on the Taliban not to stop girls from going to school in the next academic year.
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Amnesty International calls for release of four Afghan women human right d
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Amnesty International expressed concern over the detention and alleged torture of women rights defenders in Taliban prisons and demanded their release, as reported by Khaama Press.
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Pakistan: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement appeals to UN for immediate release of
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
In a letter penned to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the PTM has "strongly condemned the abortive assassination attempt by the Pakistan Army and subsequent illegal arrest of PTM Leader, well-known human rights activist Manzoor Pashteen, by joint ISI-Police operation in Chaman dis
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Afghanistan: Women in Takhar demand release of women's rights activists
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
group of women in Afghanistan's Takhar province have demanded the release of women's rights activists currently detained by the Taliban-led administration.
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Afghanistan: Concerns grow over detentions of women, civil society activis
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Amnesty International has strongly condemned the continued detention of women's rights activists in Afghanistan, emphasizing that restrictions against girls and women can escalate into "sexual harassment and crimes against humanity", Khaama Press reported.
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UN Security Council members express concerns over Afghan women's role, esp
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Several members of the United Nations Security Council members have expressed concerns about human rights violations and women's rights in Afghanistan, stating that women, including female journalists and human rights activists, are facing violence in public places, Khaama Press reported on
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Same-sex union: Petitioners, activists unhappy with verdict but say there
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Even though the Supreme Court has refused to give marriage equality rights to the LGBTQIA+ community noting that conferring legal status to civil union can only be through a law enacted by Parliament, petitioners and rights activists, though disappointed, but were of the view that the ver
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Women activists protest in Germany against ‘Gender Apartheid’ in Afghanist
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A group of women’s rights activists in Afghanistan have initiated a campaign to officially recognize “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, Khaama Press reported.
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