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Taliban publicly flog nine convicted of robbery and "sodomy"
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Local authorities and Kandahar residents were in attendance during the lashing. The spokesman for the provincial governor, Haji Zaid, said the convicts were lashed 35-39 times.
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Unity in Security Council essential in face of Taliban violations of women
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
On Friday, the UN's Special Representative for Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva addressed the Security Council in a private session, UN News reported. Otunbayeva said the UN Security Council must be unified in opposing policies against women and girls in Afghanistan.
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NHRC hears over 200 cases of human rights violation in Maharashtra
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday concluded its two-day camp sitting at Mumbai, organized to hear the pending cases of human rights violations in the State of Maharashtra.
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Canada imposes sanctions on Sri Lankan officials including Rajapaksa broth
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Canada has imposed sanctions against four Sri Lankan state officials including former Presidents Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mahinda Rajapaksa for "gross and systematic violations of human rights" during the armed conflict in the island nation, which occurred from 1983 to 2009, an official rel
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Taliban's targeting of NGOs deplorable, say UN experts
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Just four days after the Taliban banned women and girls from attending universities, on December 24, the acting Minister of Economy issued a letter barring women from working in international and national NGOs, a further violation of women's rights with the double blow of preventing the deli
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UN expert on Myanmar says UNSC resolution not strong enough on 'gross righ
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
In response to the adoption of the Security Council's first resolution on Myanmar since the military unleashed a brutal crackdown nearly two years ago, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert warned on Thursday that the "carnage" would only worsen without "strong, coordinated action"
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Yearender 2022: China's fall from grace amid falling GDP growth, Zero Covi
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
China had been praised worldwide for lifting up its 60 per cent of population out of poverty, however, 2022 marks Beijing's diminishing stature on the world platform amid its zero-COVID policy, human rights violations and falling GDP growth.
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Civil Society Committee to visit West Bengal to ascertain Human Rights vio
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
A Civil society committee comprising a retired judge, Former IPS, a Jjist, and eminent Lawyers as its members has constituted a fact-finding funding committee to ascertain the facts allegedly leading to Human right violation and violence in the State of West Bengal.
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Telangana: BJP dismisses BRS' allegations of human rights violation
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Telangana state BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar refuted the allegations made by Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter Kalvakuntla Kavitha that the BJP government at the Centre was trampling upin the human rights in Telangana, informed the latter in an
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Baloch students council hold protest to highlight human rights violations
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Taking to Twitter, Sayed Baloch, a member of Baloch Students Council Islamabad said, "@BSCIslamabad conducted a peaceful protest on the day of #InternationalHumanRightsDay. The purpose of protest is to highlight the issues and human rights violations regarding Baloch students and Balochistan
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Former head of Tibetan govt in exile undertakes Japan visit to discuss hum
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Sangay, who served as Sikyong of the CTA from 2012 to 2021, said the establishment and announcement of the Parliamentary Coalition to probe human rights violations of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians by China.
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China rejects UK report on its human rights abuses
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
In a report titled, "Human Rights and Democracy,", the British foreign office said the human rights situation in China continued to deteriorate in 2021, and "widespread, systematic human rights violations and abuses in Xinjiang grew.
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