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Photo exhibition outside UNHRC in Switzerland highlights human rights viol
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 29 (ANI): A three-day-long photo and poster exhibition in front of the United Nations office in Geneva has highlighted the plight of indigenous Baloch people in Pakistan's largest and resource-rich province of Balochistan.
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UN peacekeeping chief expresses concern over alleged Russian human rights
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [US], June 29 (ANI/Sputnik): UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean Pierre Lacroix said he was very concerned by the allegations of human rights violations perpetrated by Russian military personnel in the Central African Republic (CAR).
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Free Balochistan Movement stage protest before British Parliament against
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], June 27 (ANI): Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) UK Branch on Saturday held a protest in front of the British Parliament against Pakistani atrocities.
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Beijing welcomes Ukraine's withdrawal from UNHRC statement slamming rights
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 27 (ANI): China on Saturday welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian side to withdraw its endorsement of a joint statement at the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that rebuked China over the human rights violations in Xinjiang.
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Switzerland: Uyghurs, Tibetan activists protest outside Olympic Museum aga
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Lausanne [Switzerland], June 24 (ANI): Dozens of Uyghurs and Tibetan activists gathered outside the Olympic Museum in Lausanne city here to protest against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Hundreds from Tibetan, Uyghur, Hong Kong communities protest in France aga
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Paris [France], June 24 (ANI): Hundreds of people from the Tibetan, Mongolian, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese communities staged a protest at the Bastille square in Paris on Wednesday, demanding the boycott of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over human rights violat
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Trudeau lashes out at China, says Beijing unwilling to admit problem over
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Ottawa [Canada], June 24 (ANI): After China demanded an investigation into the discovery of the remains of indigenous children in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has lashed out at Beijing, stressing that there was a difference between the matter and the communist country's systemic abu
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EU has certain redlines in its relationship with China: Portugal Foreign M
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New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): Portugal Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva has said that the European Union has certain redlines in its relationship with China and cannot be silent concerning human rights violations in Xinjiang, squeezing of democratic space in Hong Kong and cannot acc
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US sanctions 16 people, 5 state security entities from Belarus
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The US Treasury Department has designated 16 persons and five entities from Belarus, including the State Security Committee (KGB) and the press secretary of the Belarusian president, as part of a new sanctions package after the Ryanair incident in M
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UKPNP calls for UN probe into rights abuses in Pak occupied J-K, Gilgit Ba
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Bern [Switzerland], June 21 (ANI): Expressing deep concerns over human rights violations in Pakistan and its occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) has appealed to the United Nations to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the ma
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Forced displacement of people reaches record high of 82.4 million, says UN
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 18 (ANI): The number of people displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations in the world has increased to a record 82.4 million, according to the Global Trends report from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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World Sindhi Congress urges G7 leaders to take action against human rights
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], June 16 (ANI): As the much-coveted Group of Seven (G7) concluded recently, the World Sindhi Congress (WSC) has urged world leaders of the summit to take action against ongoing grave human rights atrocities against Sindhi people in Pakistan.
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