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Opinion divided on CM Soren's decision to include transgenders in OBC list
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The recent announcement by Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to include the transgender community of the state in the OBC category has been met with mixed reactions. With some welcoming the move, others including Sonal Tiwari, an advocate and transgender rights activist, have termed the
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Women's rights activists call hunger strike amid global neglect of Afghan
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Women rights activists along with other women have initiated a hunger strike to bring the issues regarding global neglect of Afghan women and gender apartheid, reported Khaama Press.
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China’s long arm: Rights lawyer tries to flee to US, held in Laos; faces r
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Lu Siwei, who belonged to a rare and increasingly besieged group that took sensitive cases to defend rights activists and political pariahs, is now facing the threat of deportation in Laotian custody.
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UKPNP highlights the poor state of affairs in PoK
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The speakers also discussed the denial of basic facilities and human rights, economic hardships, political suppression, forced migration of nationalist and rights activists, and Islamabad's suppressing voices of the Kashmiris.
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Diljit Dosanjh's film on Jaswant Singh Khalra getting new title, film to p
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Diljit Dosanjh's film on human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra’s life has got a new title.
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“What is need for all such hatred?” Irom Sharmila urges people of Manipur
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Days after a video of alleged sexual violence in Manipur, purportedly showing two women being paraded naked, went viral, Civil rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu on Sunday appealed to the Central government to intervene in the strife-torn state "with a right approach".
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70 years of systematic brainwashing has changed outlook of Pak: World Sind
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Rubina Greenwood, a human rights activist and chairperson of World Sindhi Congress, in an exclusive interview to ANI, said the Pakistan Army was systematically breaking the Sindhi community using political tools and brute force, while forcing them to migrate.
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Activists raise concern over persecution of ethnic minorities by Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
They raised concern over the gross human rights violations committed by Pakistan against Baloch, Sindhi and the Pashtuns, and against the Uyghur Muslims by China.
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Afghanistan: Amnesty urges Taliban to release educationist Matiullah Wesa
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Amnesty International has called on Afghanistan's de facto authorities to release Matiullah Wesa, an Afghan educationalist and the founder of 'Pen Path', as well as, a supporter of girl's education unconditionally, reported Khaama Press.
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Paralympic Fencer Vibhas Sen and Jhatkaa.org come together for the inclusi
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28: Paralympic fencer and disability rights activist, Vibhas Sen, has joined forces with Jhatkaa.org, a leading social justice advocacy organisation, to address the challenges of inadequate data collection on persons with disabilities. Together, they are calling for t
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Pakistan-occupied Kashmir residents seem to have returned to Stone Age: UK
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, who are living in the absence of basic facilities like hospital, and road, seems to have returned to the "Stone Age," said human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), Shaukat Ali Kashmiri.
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Pakistan: Death sentence for Christian youth on blasphemy charges sparks o
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A local court in Bahawalpur sent shockwaves across Pakistan after sentencing a 22-year-old Christian youth, Noman Masih, to death on blasphemy charges, BNN Network reported, adding that the court's decision has sparked outrage among human rights activists and religious minorities who have sa
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