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Delhi court sentences priest to life for minor girls' rape, quotes US poet
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI): The judge in a Delhi court quoted American poet and civil rights activist writer Maya Angelou to express his outrage while sentencing a 76-year-old temple priest to life term for raping two minor girls.
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Elgar Parishad Case: NIA, State govt oppose Sudha Bharadwaj's bail plea in
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 4 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday opposed the bail plea of the Elgar Parishad case accused Sudha Bharadwaj, a rights activist, who moved the Bombay High Court for default bail.
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Myanmar has the highest coronavirus mortality rate in Southeast Asia
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar] July 30 (ANI/FENA): With the increase in coronavirus deaths in Myanmar, accusations of residents and human rights activists that the military government, which took control in February, is using the pandemic to consolidate power and suppress the opposition, are becoming m
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Rights group expresses concern over abduction of human rights activist in
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] July 21 (ANI): Various European chapters of Amnesty International, including Luxemburg, Brussels, Switzerland have written to the Sindh Chief Minister, expressing their concern over the abduction of a human rights activist in the country.
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Pakistan continues intimidation, harassment of its citizens abroad
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 20 (ANI): Pakistan seems to be emulating its all-weather ally China in intimidating its citizens abroad, particularly dissidents and human rights activists.
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Pak govt fails to implement bonded labour abolition law, say activists
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], July 18 (ANI): Human rights activists have come together in Pakistan to express concern regarding the dire conditions of agriculture workers who are facing social and economic exclusion from the agriculture fields due to non-payment of their due by landlords.
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Stan Swamy's death: Left parties stage protest outside Raj Bhavan in Ranch
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], July 15 (ANI): Over a week since Stan Swamy passed away in judicial custody in a Mumbai hospital after being denied bail, Left parties and other organisations on Thursday staged a protest and sat in dharna outside the Raj Bhavan here in Ranchi demanding a judicial
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US considers urgent visas for vulnerable Afghan women after troop pull out
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US] July 8 (ANI): Human and Women rights activists have asked the Biden administration to provide up to 2,000 visas specifically for vulnerable women and women's advocates who are at risk after the US troops pull out from Afghanistan.
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Exiled Kashmiris urge UNHRC to act against Pakistan, accuse ISI of targeti
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva (Switzerland), July 5 (ANI): Exiled Kashmiris and rights activists held a demonstration in front of the UN Human Rights Council building in Geneva to highlight Pakistan's systematic discrimination against Kashmiris in the region it has illegally occupied for over seven decades.
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NHRC directs Maha chief secy to ensure proper medical care to Stan Swamy
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Sunday asked the Maharashtra chief secretary to ensure that every possible effort is made to provide jailed rights activist Stan Swamy with proper medical care and treatment. Swamy was arrested in connection with
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Pakistan: Human rights activist under attack after receiving international
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Gulalai Ismail, a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and women rights activist, has come under severe criticism in Pakistan after receiving an award for human rights.
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Prominent UAE rights activist dies in London car crash
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], June 21 (ANI): Prominent United Arab Emirates (UAE) rights activist and critic Alaa al-Siddiq died in a car crash in London on Saturday.
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