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Govt. treating human rights organisations like criminal enterprises: Amnes
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 26 (ANI): Amnesty India's Executive Director Aakar Patel in a statement on Friday accused government authorities of increasingly treating human rights organisations like "criminal enterprises".
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Bharat Bandh: Bihar MP Pappu Yadav allegedly attacked
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Muzaffarpur (Bihar) [India], Sep 7 (ANI): Madhepura Member of Parliament and Jan Adhikar Party leader Pappu Yadav on Thursday claimed that he was attacked in Muzaffarpur in the wake of 'Bharat Bandh', which was announced by several minority rights organisations, against amendments in the Sch
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Bharat Bandh: Security heightened in MP
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Sept 6 (ANI): Security was heightened in various parts of Madhya Pradesh in view of Bharat Bandh announced by several minority rights organisations against amendments in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Thursday.
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Protests staged against enforced disappearances in Balochistan
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Quetta (Balochistan) [Pakistan], June 16 (ANI): On the auspicious occasion of Eid, thousands of people protested in Balochistan's Quetta city demanding the return of their beloved, who were allegedly abducted by Pakistani intelligence agencies.
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'Protection for child actors is a must'
Updated : 7 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 13 (ANI): On the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour, child rights organisations collectively raised concern about the protection of child artists in the entertainment industry.
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PETA India's 'Merry' gift for Meghan Markle, Prince Harry
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 19 (ANI): Ahead of the much-awaited British royal wedding of Prince Harry and Hollywood actress Meghan Markle, animal rights organisation PETA India have decided to gift a bull, named Merry, a hybrid of the name Meghan and Harry, to the couple.
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Balochistan: Sister appeals for brother's safe release
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Quetta [Pakistan], Jan 12 (ANI): A Baloch sister has appealed the human rights organisations and media to help her raise voice for her brother's safe release, who was abducted by the Pakistani security forces on December 15, 2017.
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Kashmiri parties call for rights violations in PoK to end
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], Nov.21 (ANI): Kashmiri parties, including the London-based Kashmir Voice International (KVI) London, have unanimously passed a resolution calling for an end to human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and to allow international human rights organisations to visit th
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Kashmiri parties pass resolution to allow global rights bodies to visit Ka
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], Nov.20 (ANI): Kashmiri parties, including the London-based Kashmir Voice International (KVI) London, have unanimously passed a resolution to allow international human rights organisations to visit both sides of Kashmir.
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WBWF condemns abduction of Baloch women and children by Pak forces
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Vancouver [Canada], Nov. 1 (ANI): Condemning the abduction of women and children of two prominent Baloch leaders Dr.Allah Nazar and Aslam Baloch, and the abduction of Nawaz Ata Baloch, Information Secretary of BHRO (Baloch Human Rights Organisation), the World Baloch Women Forum (WBWF) in a
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Indefinite strike against abduction of Baloch activist by Pak Rangers
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], October 29 (ANI): The Baloch Human Rights Organisation (BHRO) is observing an indefinite hunger strike against the abduction of human rights activist Nawaz Ata Baloch by Pakistani rangers.
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Cameroon 'torturing people' accused of Boko Haram: Amnesty Inter
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [U.K.], July 20 (ANI): Hundreds of Boko Haram suspects in Cameroon are being brutally tortured by security forces, London-based human rights organisation Amnesty International said in a new report published on Thursday.
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