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US Senate Republicans block legislation on voting rights amid tensions
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], June 23 (ANI): US Senate Republicans on Tuesday (local time) blocked a sweeping bill to overhaul federal elections, heightening already inflamed tensions over voting rights.
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Right to life should prevail over rights of patent holders, says NHRC chai
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New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Justice (Retired) Arun Mishra on Tuesday said the right to life should prevail over the rights of patent holders to ensure that the scarcity of life-saving drugs, medicines and vaccines relating to COVID-1
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Incidents of Crime, missing persons increased in 2020 in Sindh province, s
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Incidents of missing persons and crime increased in Sindh province in the year 2020, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
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China opposes UN rights chief's remarks on Hong Kong, Xinjiang
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Geneva [Switzerland], June 22 (ANI): The Chinese Mission to the United Nations has opposed the remarks made by the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights on Hong Kong and Xinjiang-related issues at the Human Rights Council on Monday.
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UN rights chief seeks 'meaningful access' to Xinjiang this year
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Geneva [Switzerland], June 22 (ANI): UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has said that she hopes to agree on terms with China for a visit this year to Xinjiang province, to look into reports of serious abuse against Uyghurs.
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Kashmir leaders agree to attend PM meet but remain rigid on Article 370, 3
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Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 22 (ANI): Leaders of Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Tuesday announced to attend an all-party meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 24 but remained rigid on restoring Article 370 and 35A which gave special rights to
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Pakistan: Human rights activist under attack after receiving international
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Gulalai Ismail, a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and women rights activist, has come under severe criticism in Pakistan after receiving an award for human rights.
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US sanctions 16 people, 5 state security entities from Belarus
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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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Pakistan's opposition alarmed over disappearance of key rights bills
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Islamabad [Pakistan], June 21 (ANI): Pakistan's opposition in the upper chamber of the bicameral legislature has expressed alarm over its key human rights (HR) bills disappearing in a black hole to emerge in the form of government bills.
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Closely monitoring 'chilling impact' of National Security Law on Hong Kong
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Geneva [Switzerland], June 21 (ANI): UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has said that the United Nations is closely monitoring the impact that National Security Law had on the civic and democratic space of Hong Kong.
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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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NHRC orders inquiry into complaints of West Bengal post-poll violence
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New Delhi [India], June 21 (ANI): The National Human Rights Commission chairperson Justice (Retired) Arun Mishra has constituted a committee headed by former Intelligence Bureau chief Rajiv Jain to enquire into the complaints of post-poll violence in West Bengal.
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