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China cracks down on human rights activists ahead of Winter Olympics next
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], January 20 (ANI): Chinese authorities are detaining human rights activists to strike out any potential dissent and criticism right ahead of the next month's Winter Olympics.
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Rights activists chide China's infamous detention methods
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 29 (ANI): Human rights activists have chided China's infamous Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL), highlighting that Chinese authorities torture and forcibly hold people without providing them with the right to legal counsel.
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Most activists welcome Centre's move to raise minimum age of marriage for
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI): Most women's rights activists have welcomed the Centre's move to increase the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years, but a few said that this step alone would not empower women and several others were needed.
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Demonstration held outside Chinese Embassy in UK over human rights abuses
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], December 11 (ANI): A large number of human rights activists including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hongkongers, Mongolians held protests outside the Chinese Embassy in London over human rights abuses in China and sought action against the Chinese Community Party (CCP) regime as well as ur
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Sindhis in Pakistan hold rallies against `forced' conversions on Human Rig
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Hyderabad [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Human rights activists and members of the minority communities organised protest rallies in different cities in Pakistan's Sindh province to mark International Human Rights Day on Friday.
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Activists demand release of political prisoners in Pakistan, PoK, Gilgit B
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], December 11 (ANI): Political and human rights activists from Pakistan, Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan have expressed grave concern about the worsening human rights situation in the country and occupied regions.
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Children's future in Pak's Sindh not bright, worst forms of child abuse, b
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], November 21 (ANI): Marking Universal Children's Day on Saturday, child rights activists in Pakistan said that the future of children in Sindh is not bright as the worst forms of abuse and bonded labour are prevalent in the area.
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Pakistan: Nearly 1,000 Christian, Hindu women fall victim to forced conver
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 18 (ANI): Atrocities against minority women has now become common in Pakistan and according to recent data around 1,000 women belonging to Christian and Hindu communities are forced to convert to Islam every year.
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Incidents like Minar-e-Pakistan create difficulty in bringing justice to v
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] November 15 (ANI): Victim-blaming mindset and social stigma attached with reporting incidents such as the Minar-e-Pakistan incident where a woman was allegedly assaulted by hundreds of men on Independence Day, often weaken the authenticity and progress of other cases whe
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UN expresses concern over killing of rights activists in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 7 (ANI): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Sunday expressed deep concern over the reports of killing of human rights defenders in the country.
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Myanmar military attempting to curb media freedom, say experts
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], November 6 (ANI): Myanmar's latest amendments in telecommunications law are an attempt by the junta to suppress the voice of journalists and muzzle the media, experts and rights activists said on Friday.
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Election posters with Tibetan flag put up outside Chinese embassy in Denma
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], October 29 (ANI): China has condemned and expressed anger after election posters depicting the Tibetan flag were placed outside its embassy in Denmark, Euro News reported.
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