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Afghanistan: Rights group calls for release of jailed women rights defende
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
On November 4, the Taliban detained women human rights defenders Zarifa Yaqoobi and her colleagues during a press conference announcing the formation of the "Afghan Women Movement for Equality" in the capital city of Kabul.
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Decision to ban Afghan women from public parks must be reversed, says righ
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Since the return of the Taliban to Kabul in August 2021, the Taliban's systematic attacks on the rights of women and girls and the use of violence, including torture and enforced disappearances, have created a culture of fear in Afghan society.
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Pakistan rights group condemns arson attack on a girls' school in Gilgit B
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
A girls' school in Gilgit-Baltistan's Diamer district was torched early on Tuesday. According to Dawn newspaper, local officials have held "terrorists" responsible for this reprehensible act and have promised to rebuild the school along with providing security to educational institutions.
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Pakistani Minorities continue to live under clouds of fear, persecution: R
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Several members of minorities including a Sri Lankan national have been killed and attacked in various cities and towns of Punjab, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for allegedly committing blasphemy, which in this country is commonly used to settle personal scores relating to business, financi
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Landmark decision could herald end to EU's extraditions to China: Report
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Madrid-based rights group Safeguard Defenders said this momentous decision will most likely mean European countries will find it near impossible to extradite suspects to China again.
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Pak rights org, Taiwan group jointly raise issue of human rights, democrac
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Naveed Walter, president of Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) said that the advancement of human rights, democracy and the rule of law are the dire needs of today.
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Iran protest: Violent clashes break out between students and security forc
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Iranian students clashed with security forces at universities across Iran on Sunday, according to the country's activist and human rights groups.
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Pak rights group voices concern about enforced disappearances bill
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Enforced disappearances must be treated as a separate, autonomous crime. Any legislation to curb this practice must provide guarantees that anyone deprived of their liberty is kept in a fully authorised place of detention and victims, their families and witnesses provided protection in case
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Pak rights group condemns FIR against Pashtun leader Manzoor Pashteen
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen has been booked on terrorism charges for making a speech on the state's reluctance to criminalise enforced disappearance and arbitrary detentions.
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Baloch group rejects Pakistan govt probe as 66 Multan hospital bodies buri
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], October 20 (ANI): A Baloch rights group has rejected an inquiry committee set up by the Punjab government on the matter concerning the corpses found at a Multan hospital and appealed to Pakistan's apex court to take notice of this tragedy and fulfil the demand of justice.
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Baloch rights group raises issue of increase in number of enforced disappe
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], October 10 (ANI): The Chairman of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Nasrullah Baloch has said that the number of enforced disappearance cases has increased in Pakistan.
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At least 82 killed in Iran's Zahedan clashes: Int'l rights group
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], October 6 (ANI): The death toll in the deadly clashes between Iran's security forces and people in Zahedan, the capital of Iran's Sistan and Balochistan Province, has risen to 82, Amnesty International said Thursday.
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