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Imprisoned children in Iran suffer sexual violence, electric shocks: Amnes
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Citing a report by the Rights group Amnesty International, CNN reported that child detainees in Iran are facing severe torture and are facing sexual violence, flogging and electric shocks by the authorities in the country.
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Germany-based World Uyghur Congress nominated for 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Germany-based Uyghur rights group, World Uyghur Congress has been nominated for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Pro-Tibet rights groups to hold march in Taipei to show solidarity with Ti
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The annual march also seeks to showcase the plight of Hong Kongers and people in Xinjiang.
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Pro-Tibetans to hold march in Taipei to show solidarity with Tibetans, oth
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The march held annually in early March since 2004, was originally intended to commemorate those who died during a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule that began on March 10, 1959.
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Pro-Tibet rally to be held in Taiwan on March 5
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Pro-Tibet and human rights groups are going to hold a march in Taiwan's Taipei on Sunday to show their solidarity with Tibetans and other minority groups facing oppression in China, the Taipei Times reported.
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Baloch rights group South Korea chapter holds protest against recent enfor
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Enforced disappearances are common in Balochistan. People forcibly disappear daily at the hands of the Pakistan Army and other law enforcement agencies, where mostly young people become the victim of enforced disappearances.
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Pak human rights group raise concern over gender-based violence in Sindh
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday expressed concern over the state of law and order in upper districts of Sindh, mentioning the high incidence of gender-based violence, the slow pace of rehabilitation of flood-affected communities and safety issues for journalists.<
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Pak human rights group raises concern over continued marginalization of re
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In its report titled A Breach of Faith: Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2021-22, HRCP has observed with considerable alarm developments during 2021/22 that belie the state's commitment to freedom of religion or belief.
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Tibetan Rights Groups condemn Thermo Fisher Scientific for supplying DNA k
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The campaign condemned the company for keeping profit before people by selling DNA kits and their continuous technical assistance to the Chinese police forces in Tibet.
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Canadian MP urges Trudeau's cabinet to make room for Uyghur refugees
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Human rights groups estimate more than one million Uyghurs are currently kept in prison-like indoctrination camps, which Beijing calls "re-education camps." Most of the Uyghurs and other Turkic communities have fled to Muslim-majority countries like Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia s
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Blasphemy law amendment to create room for persecution: Pak rights group
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The HRCP said the proposed legislation increases the punishment for using derogatory remarks against "holy persons" from three years with a fine to imprisonment for life 'which will not be less than ten years'.
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Pak rights group condemns desecration of Ahmadiyya worship site in Punjab
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
This week, the Express Tribune newspaper reported that a historic worship place of the Ahmadi community in Wazirabad was allegedly desecrated by the district administration.
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