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Billboards go up across Birmingham calling for end to enforced disappearan
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Birmingham [UK], June 27 (ANI): Human rights activists from the World Baloch Organisation and the Baloch Republican Party continue their campaign to highlight the dire human rights situation in Pakistan. In their latest initiative, roadside billboards have been put up around the city of Birm
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Fail to understand why sanitary workers jobs are allocated solely for Chri
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 25 (ANI): Human rights activist Kapil Dev on Tuesday questioned why in Pakistan, sanitary workers jobs were allocated solely to Christians.
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PIL in Gauhati HC against move to transport four elephants to Ahmedabad
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], June 25 (ANI): A PIL has been filed in the Gauhati High Court against the decision of Assam Forest Department to send four elephants through train from Tinsukhia to Ahmedabad to take part in a temple ritual.
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Washington: Activists, politicians voice concern over human rights violati
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], May 5 (ANI): Human Rights activists and politicians have shown concern over the growing state-run violations of human rights in Sindh and other provinces of Pakistan at a seminar here on Saturday.
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Russian Embassy in US lodges protest over Maria Butina sentencing
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [USA], May 4 (ANI): The Russian Embassy in the United States has expressed dissent over the "unlawful court verdict" in the sentencing of Russian gun-rights activist Maria Butina by the US.
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Human rights activists slam China for blocking JeM chief's listing as glob
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 14 (ANI): After China once again blocked a proposal in the UN Security Council to enlist Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar as an international terrorist, human rights activists here on Wednesday (local time) hit out at Beijing for its "predictabl
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Human rights activist Serikzhan Bilash Kazakh arrested by police, says his
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Astana [Kazakhstan], Mar 13 (ANI): Human rights activist Serikzhan Bilash’s lawyer Aiman Umarova on Wednesday said that her client was arrested by Kazakh Police and charged with allegedly inciting ethnic strife.
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Krishna Tirath to rejoin Congress?
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (India) Mar 2 (ANI): Ex-Cabinet Minister in the UPA regime and Dalit rights activist Krishna Tirath is likely to rejoin the Congress Party, sources said.
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Bhima Koregaon: SC sets aside Bombay HC’s order on extension of deadline t
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): In a major relief to the Maharashtra government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday set aside the Bombay High Court order refusing to extend the 90-day deadline to file a charge sheet against five human rights activists in connection with the Bhima Koregaon case.
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CISF constable, posted as security guard at Teesta Setalvad's house, shoot
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 10 (ANI): A Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) constable, posted as a security guard at civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad's residence in suburban Santacruz here, allegedly committed suicide on Saturday morning.
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Scholars, experts call CPEC an 'oppressive design of Pakistan, China'
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Paris [France], Feb 5 (ANI): Scholars, former diplomats, human rights activists and journalists from various parts of the world gathered in Paris to discuss the implications of the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
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Resistance mounting against illegal occupation of PoK, Gilgit
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK] / Brussels [Belgium], Nov 28 (ANI): Activists of Jammu Kashmir National Independence Alliance (JKNIA) took to the streets in London to demand an end to the decades-long subjugation and economic depredation of the illegally occupied regions of Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan-occupie
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