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Afghanistan now most repressive country for women: UN
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Roza Isakovna Otunbayeva, UN Special Representative and head of the UN's Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, UNAMA, strongly condemned recent Taliban decrees that have further eroded the rights of Afghan women.
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Overseas Pakistani Christians protest against human rights violations suff
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The protest was organised by Action Committee for Christian Rights, Overseas Pakistan Christian Alliance and Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD), The Netherlands on the occasion of Women's Day held on March 8.
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Pakistan: 63,000 cases of gender-based violence reported in past 3 years
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Around 63,000 cases of gender-based violence (GBV) were reported in Pakistan over the past three years, with some 4,000 being reported in the first half of 2020 when lockdowns were imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus, Dawn News reported.
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Turkish lawyer who accused India of "war crimes in Kashmir" admits links t
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A prominent Turkish human rights legal consultant has said he paid one of the suspects in the European parliament corruption scandal for "ethical lobbying services" that included resolutions condemning war crimes in Syria and Yemen, the Financial Times reported. London-based Hakan Camuz said
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"Entire Union Territory of J&K, Ladakh an integral, inalienable part o
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
"We reject the factually incorrect and unwarranted references to India in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) statement. The entire territory of Union territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh is an integral and inalienable part of India. OIC has lost its credibility by taking
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SLS Pune in association with the Nani A. Palkhivala trust, Mumbai organize
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 8 (ANI/SRV): Symbiosis Law School, Pune, a constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), in association with the Nani. A. Palkhivala trust, Mumbai organized the Nani A. Palkivala Inter Collegiate Elocution competition on 28th February 2023. The event wa
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Gender equality "300 years away": UN Chief
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
While addressing the UN session of the Commission on the Status of Women on Monday, Guterres said, "It takes on even greater significance at a time when women's rights are being abused, threatened, and violated around the world. Progress won over decades is vanishing before our eyes."
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US expresses concern over suspension of license of ARY News in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Ned Price noted that a free press and informed citizenry is key to any nation and its democratic future.
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Pakistan: Aurat March organisers present list of 60 demands, including end
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The demands were presented by women's rights activists, including Farzana Bari and Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir, before the media at a pre-march press conference at the National Press Club (NPC).
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US-Pak political contacts increase as polls draw closer
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The contacts between visitors from the United States and political parties in Pakistan have definitely picked up pace as the country inches closer to general elections, the Dawn reported, adding that last month, a US congressional delegation led by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer visite
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China: Arrest of youngsters, who took part in white paper protests, contin
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Many of the protesters who took part in the November 2022 street demonstrations in China against President Xi Jinping's "Zero-Covid" policy are no longer alive. Not only the public memory of these events is fading, but it's possible that the protests themselves may be forgotten in China as a
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China is destroying Tibetan identity, language and culture: UN report
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A report by human rights experts of the United Nations on the eve of International Language Day on February 21 unmasked the real nature of oppression on Tibetans practised by the Communist Party of China (CCP) in the form of forced assimilation of Tibetan identity into the dominant Han Chine
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