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Geneva: Rights advocates call for recognising 1971 Bangladesh genocide by
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
An event was organised, on the sidelines of the 54th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), by Global Human Rights Defence, an international Non-Governmental Organisation based in The Hague, Netherlands.
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London: "China’s dictators" condemned by UK parliamentarians, human rights
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
“Nothing to celebrate” was the central theme of the protest, organised by China’s persecuted communities, including Hongkongers, Southern Mongolians, Tibetans and Uyghurs, according to Global Alliance for Tibet and Persecuted Minorities, a UK-based rights group.
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Chennai-based child rights advocate wins US' Iqbal Masih Award
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Lalitha Natarajan has worked throughout her career as a lawyer and activist to apply rights-based approaches to child labour. As a leader in the fight to end exploitative child labour in southern India, she identifies child victims of trafficking, specifically bonded labour, assisting in
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Former head of Tibetan govt in exile undertakes Japan visit to discuss hum
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sangay, who served as Sikyong of the CTA from 2012 to 2021, said the establishment and announcement of the Parliamentary Coalition to probe human rights violations of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians by China.
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Ales Bialiatski, Russia's Memorial, Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties w
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], October 7 (ANI): The Royal Swedish Academy on Friday jointly awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.
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Uyghur human rights advocate calls upon companies to abandon products of f
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], April 20 (ANI): In a bid to address Chinese repression of Uyghurs, a Uyghur human rights advocate has called upon brands to remove materials that come from China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) from every level of their supply chains, according to a media report.
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China may extend human rights advocate Lee Ming-che's prison term
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 19 (ANI): Human rights advocate Lee Ming-che could be kept in China two years beyond his release date in conditions that human rights groups called "inhumane".
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US-based group backs Uyghur, Tibetan activists protesting against rights v
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Beijing [China], February 21 (ANI): A US-based rights organization has expressed solidarity with Uyghur, Tibetan and Ladakhi human rights advocates protesting the Beijing Winter Olympics.
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Afghan women stand against Oslo summit; say 'step toward Taliban is step t
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], January 24 (ANI): Amid the ongoing talks between the Taliban delegation and members of the international community in Norway, human rights advocates and Afghan women fear a summit in Oslo might facilitate the Islamic outfit's political recognition.
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Veteran Uyghur advocate's sister confirmed dead after release from Chinese
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 13 (ANI): Amid China's increasing repression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, the younger sister of veteran Uyghur rights advocate Rebiya Kadeer is confirmed to have died after her release from an internment camp in the region, according to sources.
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Pakistan state structure is 'anti-people', unresponsive to voices of oppre
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Sindh [Pakistan], December 14 (ANI): Pakistan's constitutional state structure is "quite anti-people" and it is unresponsive to the voice of oppressed people of the country, Pakistani poet and human rights advocate, IA Rehman said, while adding that enforced disappearance and forceful con
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Activist approaches Islamic community to protect Uyghur Muslims from Chine
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], September 5 (ANI): Uyghur American and rights advocate Rushan Abbas demand OIC and other Muslim countries to watch what Pakistan and China doing to Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.
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