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US adds 28 Chinese entities to trade blacklist over abuses in Xinjiang
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [USA], Oct 8 (ANI): The US Commerce Department on Monday said it had added 28 Chinese organisations to a United States blacklist over concerns about their role in human rights violations, effectively blocking those entities from buying American products.
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'Indian education system completely against principle of sustainable devel
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Oct 7 (ANI): A 21-year-old Madurai-based law aspirant, who recently addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council Social Forum (UNHRC) in Geneva, believes that the Indian education system is totally against the principle of sustainable development goals.
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Woman Constable should have avoided a few words, says CRPF after Khusboo's
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 5 (ANI): After a controversy erupted over the speech of a woman Constable in a debate competition organised by National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Saturday said the female personnel -- Khushboo Chauhan -- should have avoi
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Toll in Baghdad anti-government protest soars to 12
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct 03 (ANI): The death toll in Baghdad anti-government protest has risen to 12 after the government imposed an open-ended curfew, Iraq's High Commission for Human Rights said Thursday.
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HRW urges Nepal Government to release 2015 Terai Violence Report
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Oct 03 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged the Nepal government to release the report of the Lal Commission, which investigated deadly violence of the 2015 Terai Movement.
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Things Pak courts do to appease ISI: Activist Gulalai Ismail on non-bailab
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 3 (ANI): Pakistani women rights activist Gulalai Ismail on Wednesday deemed the non-bailable arrest warrant issued against her as an act of appeasement by the Pakistani court before country's intelligence agency ISI.
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US Congress panel to hold hearing on human rights situation in South Asia
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Oct 2 (ANI): Congressman Brad Sherman, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asia, announced on Tuesday that the panel will hold a hearing on the human rights situation in South Asia with focus on Kashmir on October 22.
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Madurai-based law aspirant to address UN Human Rights Council Social Forum
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu), [India], Oct 1 (ANI): A 21-year-old Madurai-based law aspirant has been invited to address United Nations Human Rights Council Social Forum, scheduled to be held in Geneva from October 1.
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China harvesting organs from minorities, including Uighur Muslims: Activis
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 29 (ANI): China was accused of harvesting organs from prosecuted minority groups, during a United Nations Human Rights Council meeting earlier this week.
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31st International Conference on Sindh held in London
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
London [UK], Sept 29 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) on Saturday hosted an international conference on Sindh in London, where the participants highlighted issues such as enforced disappearances of activists, human rights violations and forced conversion of religious minorities in P
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US: Voice of Karachi writes to UN, seeks justice for Mohajirs against Pak'
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 28 (ANI): Highlighting the "gross human rights violations" of Mohajirs in Pakistan, Voice of Karachi, a US-based advocacy group, has urged the United Nations to intervene and save the community from the "systematic persecution" by the establishment.
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Gulalai Ismail: The new face of anti-Pakistan protest in New York
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New York [US], Sept 28 (ANI): Gulalai Ismail, a Pakistani women's rights activist on the run, who managed to escape Pakistan to seek political asylum in the United States, is now the new face of hope for the many oppressed minorities of the Islamic country. On Friday morning, Ismail appea
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