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Human rights activists accuse China of overlooking North Korean refugees
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Human rights activists and former officials have accused Beijing of violating Chinese and international laws for putting thousands of North Korean refugees in upcoming danger, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
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Pakistan: Rights Activists stress to curb forced conversion, underage marr
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
While addressing the presser on Tuesday, NMAP Chairman Lala Robin Daniel said that the system has collapsed and minor girls' respect and dignity are at stake due to a lack of implementation of laws and malpractices.
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United Kashmir People's National Party highlights impact of Pak extremism
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) organised an international conference earlier this week at the House of Commons in London. British legislators, well-known human rights activists, thinkers, lawyers, journalists, authors, and Kashmiri Diaspora in the UK participated and shar
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British Parliamentarians, activists attend int'l conference on 'Growing Ex
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Conference titled "Growing Extremism and Violence in South Asia and How it will Affect Britain and South Asia" which was organized on Tuesday, unanimously agreed upon and declared several points related to security and peace in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and South Asia.
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Activists protest against Sri Lankan authorities' plan to export 100,000 m
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
After the Sri Lankan Agriculture minister announced that the authorities are planning to export 100,000 endangered toque macaque monkeys to a private Chinese company, animal rights activists staged a protest, Voice of America reported.
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Despite multiple attempts by human rights activists, forced organ harvesti
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
More than a generation has passed since China started persecuting the nearly 100 million Falun Gong practitioners. The shortage of transplant donors has led to the search for a new minority to oppress, namely the Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang province.
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China sentences two rights activists to over 10 years in prison for "subve
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The sentencing on Monday came nearly a month after they were tried separately behind closed doors by a court in Shandong on the grounds that their cases.
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Pakistan: Rights activists raise concern over targeted killing of minoriti
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Minority rights activists have raised concern over the targeted killing of non-Muslims in Peshawar and have demanded the provincial government to take immediate steps to arrest the killers and to provide compensation to the families concerned
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US to adopt new restrictions on using commercial spyware
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
The order responds to growing US and global concerns about programs that can capture text messages and other cellphone data. Some programs, so-called "zero-click" exploits, can infect a phone without the user clicking on a malicious link.
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HRW urges Taliban to stop undermining girls' right to education
Updated : 3 years ago IST
According to the report, Afghanistan is the only country that forbids girls from attending secondary school at the moment, and the ruling Taliban regime should cease undermining the future of girls, women, and the nation.
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Activists raise human rights situation in Sindh at UNHRC
Updated : 3 years ago IST
At a side event titled "Human Rights Violations in Pakistan", a panel of Sindhi activists including Fatima Gul, Muzafar Talpur, Reva Tharwani and Sindhu Rustamani highlighted the situation of the region with an aim to seek the world's attention on the repression of Sindhi people.
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Pakistan: Aurat March organisers present list of 60 demands, including end
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The demands were presented by women's rights activists, including Farzana Bari and Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, before the media at a pre-march press conference at the National Press Club (NPC).
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