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Rights watch says Taliban 'dismantling' human rights in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 23 (ANI): The Taliban has taken steps to steadily dismantle the human rights gains of the last 20 years, rights groups have observed.
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China's new decree imposes Mandarin language on Tibetan children
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Dharmashala (Himachal Pradesh) [India], September 22 (ANI): A new decree by China has imposed the Mandarin language on all preschool children and it requires all kindergartens across ethnic and rural areas to use Mandarin as the medium of instruction for school activities, a media report sai
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Rights body remembers Uyghur activist's sister who disappeared in China
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): US-based rights group Campaign For Uyghurs (CFU) marked three years since the disappearance of Uyghur Muslim Dr Gulshan Abbas, the sister of the group's Executive Director Rushan Abbas in China.
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Kazakhstan: Researcher on Xinjiang crimes banned
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 9 (ANI): Kazakh authorities have banned a Russian-American researcher from the country for five years in apparent efforts to stymie his work documenting abuses of ethnic minorities in neighboring China, according to a rights group.
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Rights groups fear for safety of defecting Afghan military personnel in Uz
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], September 2 (ANI): Rights groups have raised concerns that Afghan army personnel who defected to Uzbekistan would be deported to their country, Voice of America (VOA) has reported.
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Human rights group holds rally in Pakistan, recalls victims of enforced di
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] September 1 (ANI): Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday organised a peaceful rally from Gora Qabristan to Karachi to honour the victims of the country's 'enforced disappearances.'
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Human rights group urges world to remember victims of China's enforced dis
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China] September 1 (ANI): Human rights group while marking the 'International Day of the Disappeared' urged the world to remember the people who became the victim of China's 'enforced disappearance'.
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China, Cambodia ignored 'community concerns' during building dam, says hu
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China] August 11 (ANI): After a rights group report revealed that Indigenous and ethnic minority communities of Cambodia were undermined during the construction of a dam project completed by a Chinese electricity firm and bankrolled by Chinese and Cambodian governments, the governme
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Rights group expresses concern over women's rights in Afghanistan
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], August 5 (ANI): Justice for women's rights offenders in Afghanistan remains elusive and the law that aims to provide legal protection to women is becoming ineffectual as the Taliban makes more territorial gains across the country, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday.
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Sri Lanka has world's 2nd-highest number of enforced disappearances: Right
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 5 (ANI): Sri Lanka has the world's second-highest number of enforced disappearances, as tens of thousands of people have "forcibly disappeared" over many decades, according to Amnesty International.
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Almost 300 stray dogs killed with poisonous injections in West Godavari of
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
West Godavari (Andhra Pradesh) [India], August 2 (ANI): In a horrific incident of animal cruelty, almost 300 stray dogs were poisoned to death and buried in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, an animal rights group alleged.
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Myanmar junta escalating media crackdown, alleges rights group
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], July 28 (ANI): Myanmar's military junta should stop prosecuting journalists and end its assault on independent media, said Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday.
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