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Sri Lanka: EU delegation hold talks with Wickremesinghe, assures support t
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 11 (ANI): The delegation of the European Union (EU) to Sri Lanka met Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and urged him to devote special attention to Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+), IMF and Human Rights Council as it assured the island country
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Pak forces killed 48, disappeared 45 in Balochistan in July: Report
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], August 11 (ANI): Pakistan's paramilitary forces were responsible for 48 cases of killings, including 11 cases of extrajudicial executions in July, according to the Human Rights Council of Balochistan.
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1.5 million Afghans residing in Pakistan: UNHCR
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 26 (ANI): Pakistan remains the largest country of asylum for Afghans, with 1.5 million Afghans residing in Pakistan, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) report.
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Human Rights Council of Balochistan raise concerns over killings of missin
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], July 20 (ANI): Amid an incessant surge in the killings of missing persons in fake encounters by Pakistan's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), the Human Rights Council of Balochistan (Hakkpan Balochistan) has raised concerns and urged the authorities to investigate th
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Implosion of Pakistan imminent, China's superpower a myth, says Baloch rig
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 11 (ANI): Pakistan is moving towards an unprecedented existential crisis, executive president of the Baloch Human Rights Council, Dr Naseer Dashti has said.
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Extrajudicial killings in Balochistan on the rise: Report
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Alongside a massive rise in cases of enforced disappearances and abduction in Balochistan, there has been a reported increase in the number of extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, stated the monthly newsletter of the Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC)
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Human Rights Council holds urgent debate on rights of women and girls in A
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 1 (ANI): The Human Rights Council (HRC) on Friday held an urgent debate on the human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, hearing Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, say that since the Taliban took power, women and girls in Af
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India calls for protection of women's rights in Afghanistan at UNHRC meet
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 1 (ANI): India at the 50th Session of the Human Rights Council meeting on Afghanistan called for the protection of the rights of women and girls, including their right to education.
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Shocking toll on children in Myanmar, says UN rights expert
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 30 (ANI): Myanmar's military junta is responsible for shocking violence against children caught up in the bloody aftermath of last February's coup, a top independent Human Rights Council-appointed investigator said.
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UN body to hold debate on Afghan women's rights on July 1
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 30 (ANI): The Geneva-based Human Rights Council (HRC) is set to convene an urgent debate on July 1 to address the human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
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Kashmiris hold anti-Pak protest, call out Islamabad's human rights violati
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 28 (ANI): On the sidelines of the ongoing 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, a number of Kashmiri activists, led by the chairman of the United Kashmir People's National Party, Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, demonstrated against Pakista
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HRC to convene urgent debate on rights situation of women in Afghanistan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 25 (ANI): The Human Rights Council (HRC) is set to convene an urgent debate on July 1 to address the human rights of women and girls in Afghanistan.
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