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UN official calls for genuine investigation into Panjshir crimes by Taliba
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 20 (ANI): UN special rapporteur for Afghan Human Rights, Richard Bennett, called out the Taliban to conduct the investigations amid reports of extra-judicial killings in Panjshir in a genuine manner and as per international standards.
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Activists raise grim human rights situation in Balochistan at Berlin confe
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 20 (ANI): The Baloch human rights activists and those living in exile have raised the issue of the grim human rights situation in Pakistan's poorest but resource-rich province of Balochistan at a day-long conference held in Berlin on September 17.
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Baloch rights group highlights enforced disappearances in Balochistan thro
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 20 (ANI): Baloch Voice Association, an NGO based in Paris, organised a three-day poster manifestation to highlight a three-fold increase in enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
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Denying Afghan girls from education is national treason: Kabul's Envoy to
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 19 (ANI): As the closure of schools for girls in Afghanistan completed one year on Sunday, the Charge d'Affaires of Kabul's Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Naseer Ahmad Faiq said denying the girls their basic rights to education is "national treason
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SC seeks Centre's response on Association of Medical Consultants plea
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 19 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response to a plea filed by the Association of Medical Consultants (AMC), Mumbai challenging Section 34 (Rights of Persons to practice) of the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Act, 2020
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Political, human right activists call Pakistan-occupied Kashmir a state in
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 19 (ANI): Amid Islamabad's unsuccessful efforts to constitutionally integrate Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan, human rights activists from the region along with journalists, lawyers and thinkers from Pakistan raised the human rights situat
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Oppressor of minorities, China celebrates National Day to mark Democratic
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 17 (ANI): China celebrates October 1 every year as the National Day to commemorate the end of dynastic rule in the country, but it is ironic that the Communist nation adopts an oppressive stance towards the minorities.
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90 pc Afghans in online poll supports reopening girls' schools as Taliban
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 17 (ANI): About ninety per cent of voters in Afghanistan supported the reopening of schools for girls beyond grade six, and 10 per cent opposed the decision, as per an online poll conducted by Afghanistan's local media outlet TOLO news.
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China represses Tibetans under guise of COVID-19 protocol
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], September 16 (ANI): Amid the increasing cases of COVID-19 in Tibet, the Chinese government is using the guise of COVID protocol to further repress the Tibetan people, curtailing their fundamental freedoms.
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Pakistan: Chinese national arrested for raping minor girl for months
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 16 (ANI): Amid grim human rights situation in Pakistan, a Chinese national was arrested for sexually assaulting and threatening a minor girl continuously for several months.
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Transit Rights can be discussed with SCO members, says ex-Indian Envoy aft
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 16 (ANI): Connectivity is a major issue that can be discussed with Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) members as India and Central Asia are not directly connected, said former Indian ambassador to Uzbekistan, S.R Tayal after Prime Minister Narendra Modi st
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51st session of UNHRC: Baloch rights group to organize 3-day exhibition on
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Paris [France], September 15 (ANI): Baloch Voice Association, NGO based in Paris, France is organizing a three-day banner and poster exhibition about the enforced disappearances in Balochistan from September 19th to 21st 2022 in front of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva on the occasion
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