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South Asian human rights body slams Pak over forced conversion of Hindu gi
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 24 (ANI): In light of a 17-year old Hindu girl who died by suicide in October this year after she was allegedly raped last year, in Pakistan's Tharparkar district, a body of South Asian human rights groups has slammed Islamabad for unchecked forced conversion o
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Pakistani rights group demands justice for Sheeza Maqsood, a Christian gir
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 1 (ANI): Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), a human rights group, condemned the abduction and demanded justice for 16-year-old Sheeza Maqsood, a Christian girl from Faisalabad who escaped kidnappers.
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Human rights group condemns abduction of Farah Shaheen, a Christian minor
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan], November 13 (ANI): Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) has condemned the abduction of another minor Christian girl by a middle-aged Muslim man in Faisalabad city of Punjab province in Pakistan.
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China used ETIM's designation as terrorist group for genocide of Uyghurs:
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], November 10 (ANI): The designation of East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) as a terrorist organisation was used by China as a pretense for the genocide of the Uyghurs and people have been falsely linked to the ETIM movement for expressing their ethnic identity and relig
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Human rights group hails acquittal of Pakistani Christian on death row for
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 8 (ANI): Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) hailed the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict of acquitting Sawan Masih, a Christian man on death row from the last eight years.
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Protests over Chinese curbs on Mongolian language teaching
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 3 (ANI): Thousands of ethnic Mongolians in China staged demonstrations against a new education policy aimed at reducing the teaching of their language in favour of Mandarin, rights groups said.
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Pak-based rights group demands resumption of temple construction in Islama
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan] July 18 (ANI): A Pakistan-based human rights organisation, Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) has demanded the resumption of temple construction in Islamabad, which was stopped by pressure from Islamists.
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Uyghur rights group urges UN to immediately strip China of its participato
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 9 (ANI): A Uyghur rights group has urged the United Nations to immediately strip Beijing of its participatory status at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and act swiftly to address the annihilation and atrocities committed against the religious minorities, resid
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Internet blackout in Myanmar's Rakhine state enters second year
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], June 22 (ANI): The internet shutdown in Myanmar's conflict-ridden northwest, described by rights groups as the world's longest, has entered second year, Al Jazeera reported.
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Muzzling Baloch voices: Pakistan bans website of Balochistan rights group
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], May 12 (ANI): Pakistani authorities have imposed an indefinite ban on the official website of Human Rights Commission of Balochistan.
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Lebanon's economic crisis left hospitals in need of supplies to combat COV
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
MOSCOW, March 24 (Sputnik/ANI) - Lebanon's economic crisis has left the country severely ill-prepared to fight the coronavirus pandemic and an urgent restock of supplies is needed to help prepare hospitals to deal with the outbreak, a prominent rights group said in a report published Tuesday
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PTM activist says Manzoor Pashteen's arrest is show of fascism by Pakistan
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Paris [France], Feb 6 (ANI): Pakistan championing for the rights of the Kashmiris people but itself violating the fundamental human rights of its own minorities is a show of fascism, a Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) activist has said regarding the arrest of Manzoor Pashteen, the chief of
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