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Geneva: Balochs protest against Pak atrocities in front of iconic 'Br
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 14 (ANI): The Baloch Voice Association demonstrated in front of the iconic Broken Chair, which stands across the street from the Palace of Nations here, during the 35th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council even as it highlighted the atrocities of the
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India tells UNHCR that terror factories in Pakistan destabilizing South As
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva[Switzerland], June 8 (ANI): Accusing Pakistan of "nurturing" terrorism, India has told the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland, that Islamabad continues to sponsor terrorism and warned that this will ultimately affect the stability of the South
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Areas in Pak belonging to India should be vacated: Defence expert on UNHRC
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], June 8 (ANI): After India at the United Nations Human Rights Council highlighted Pakistan's role in supporting terrorism in Kashmir, Defence expert D. S. Dhillon on Thursday stated that certain areas, which are under Pakistan, belong to India legally and shoul
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At UNHRC, India highlights Pak's role in terrorism in Kashmir
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 7 (ANI): India at the United Nations 35th session of the Human Rights Council highlighted Pakistan's role in supporting terrorism in Kashmir and called upon the global body for a policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism.
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U.S. says 'may pull out of U.N. Human Rights Council'
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
[United Nations], June 7 (ANI): The Trump administration has said that the United States could pull out of the United Nations Human Rights Council unless the body "ends the whitewashing of dictators' abuses and unfair attacks on Israel."
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Rohingya Muslims 'abused': Myanmar rejects UN interference
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [U.K.] May 3 (ANI): Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) decision to investigate allegations of crimes and inhumane treatment by Myanmar's security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.
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BRP urges international community to stop Pak from spreading terrorism
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 2 (ANI): Condemning Pakistan's act of mutilating bodies of two Indian soldiers, Baloch Republican Party (BRP) representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Abdul Nawaz Bugti has said that this was the wake-up call for India and the world abo
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African envoys call for Human Rights Council investigation in 'Xenoph
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr. 3 (ANI): Dubbing the recent violence against African students in India as 'Xenophobic', heads of African missions in India have called for an independent investigation by the Human Rights Council as well as other human rights bodies into these incidents.
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Rohingya issue: UN to send fact-finding mission to Myanmar
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 24 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send an independent international fact-finding mission to Myanmar to investigate alleged human rights violations in the country, against the ethnic Rohingya Muslims in particular.
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Pak sidelined by international community after it interrupts BRP from spea
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 23 (ANI): After the Pakistani delegation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) interrupted the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) representatives to speak on the issue of gross human rights violation with the Balochi people due to the construction of the C
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NGOs raise concern at UNHRC over human rights violation in PoK, Gilgit-Bal
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 15 (ANI): Raising their concerns over gross human rights violation in Pakistan administered Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, several NGOs at the 34th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) have brought to light the utter violence and brutality taking place in the
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CPEC is a military project by China: Mehran Marri
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 14 (ANI): Representative of Balochistan at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Mehran Marri dubbed the multi-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a military project by Beijing which it would later use against the United States and gulf nat
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