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India-EU event highlights importance of safe drinking water, sanitation fo
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Geneva [Switzerland], June 25 (ANI): India and EU held a Human Rights Council side event on the importance of access to safe drinking water and sanitation for the realisation of gender equality.
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Billie Eilish takes dig at Internet's obsession with Johnny-Amber's trial
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Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): American singer and songwriter Billie Eilish, in her latest song condemned the Internet for caring more about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard's defamation trial than the Supreme Court's recent abortion verdict.
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Reproductive rights are women's rights and human rights: UN Women
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New York [US], June 25 (ANI): After the US Supreme Court struck down Roe vs Wade eliminating the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion, United Nations Women said that reproductive rights are integral to women's rights, a fact that is upheld by international agreements and refle
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Biden pledges to take every step to protect abortion rights after supreme
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Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): US President Joe Biden pledged to take every step his administration can to protect abortion rights after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision on Friday, and called on voters to elect state and federal officials who will vote to
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UKPNP holds demonstration in Geneva over human rights, security situation
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Geneva [Switzerland], June 25 (ANI): The members of the United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) led by Shaukat Ali Kashmiri on Friday staged a protest at the UN human rights head office in Geneva to highlight the atrocities being committed against the people of Pakistan Occupied Kashm
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US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ending 50 years of federal abortio
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Washington [US], June 24 (ANI): The Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade, eliminating the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion and ruled that states may regulate the practice of it, according to a media report.
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Enforced birth control measures driving human rights violation in China: R
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Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): In order to put a barricade on the receding population, the Communist Party of China have tried to increase the birth rate in the country in a quest to increase the size of the labour force and restore the advantages of cheap labour by initially switching to a
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Chinese propaganda at UNHRC and Michelle Bachelet's embarrassing trip to X
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Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): In a series of events in the last one month, China has managed to fool the international community, and specifically the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC).
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Prominent Chinese rights activists on trial for state subversion
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Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): China is putting two prominent civil rights activists, Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi, through closed-door trials this week for state subversion, media reports said.
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Women, girls 'are being written out of society' by Taliban, experts warn S
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New York [US], June 24 (ANI): Amid the plummeting humanitarian and economic conditions, women and girls in Afghanistan are being deprived of their most basic human rights -- employment and education, speakers told the Security Council on Thursday, as they examined the restrictive policies of
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'Non-Violence works': Tibetan human rights activist in veiled attack on Ch
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Washington [US], June 24 (ANI): In a veiled attack on China, International Campaign for Tibet, Chairman Richard Gere who advocates for the human rights in Tibet said that irrespective of the time it takes someone to change its path and tread on the path of non-violence, it still works.
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Biden 'deeply disappointed' with Supreme Court ruling on guns
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Washington [US], June 23 (ANI): US President Joe Biden on Thursday said that he was "deeply disappointed" by a Supreme Court decision that struck down a New York law restricting gun-carrying rights.
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