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Construction of dams in PoK, GB by Pakistan, China are illegal, says activ
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): A political activist from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir lambasted Pakistan and China, at the 45th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, for constructing mega-dams in the occupied territories.
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Issue of illegal arrest, torture of activist who removed Pakistani flag in
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): Exiled political leaders from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have raised the issue of abduction, torture, and harassment of activists and journalists by Pakistani agencies at the illegally occupied region during the ongoing 45th Session of UN Human
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European think-tank exposes Pakistan at UN for harbouring terrorists
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 24 (ANI): The European Foundation for South Asian Studies, a think-tank based in Amsterdam has exposed Pakistan for harbouring terrorists in its territory during the ongoing 45th Session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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UN Human Rights office urges Chinese authorities to ensure due process rig
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hong Kong, September 18 (ANI): UN Human Rights Office on Friday urged Chinese authorities to ensure due process rights to twelve of its residents seeking to flee to Taiwan and arrested at sea.
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Establish global commission to stop sectarian violence against Shias in Pa
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 13 (ANI): The All India Shia Husaini Fund (AISHF) has written to United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressing concerns over the rise in attacks against Shia Muslims and other minorities in Pakistan and demanded the formation of
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US should ban surveillance equipment exports to Saudi Arabia over Khashogg
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States should consider a moratorium on the export of surveillance equipment to Riyadh over the killing of former Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a UN human rights expert said in a congressional hearing on Friday.
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UN experts: Pakistan must end enforced disappearance of human rights defen
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 4 (ANI): UN human rights experts today called on the Pakistani authorities to end the secret detention of human rights defender Idris Khattak, who has not been heard from in more than nine months.
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UN experts write to China on Panchen Lama, reincarnation rules, ICT welcom
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Aug 5 (ANI): Five UN human rights experts and expert bodies have raised concerns with the Chinese government about Tibet's "disappeared" Panchen Lama and Beijing's reincarnation rules, citing fears about Chinese interference in the succession of the Dalai Lama.
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AEHRF 'deeply perturbed' by upward swing in racial discrimination, Xenopho
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 21 (ANI): Asian Eurasian Human Rights Forum (AEHRF), a Delhi-based NGO with ECOSOC status, has expressed dismay on the rising cases of racial discrimination and Xenophobia in some parts of the world.
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Persecuted Pakistan Hindus demand justice, protest at UN council against f
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 10 (ANI): Highlighting the plight of Hindus in Pakistan, a group of protesters on Friday (local time) gathered at UN Headquarters in Geneva during the 44th session of UN Human Rights Council to protest against the persecution faced by them at the hands of the Islam
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Uyghur rights group urges UN to immediately strip China of its participato
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 9 (ANI): A Uyghur rights group has urged the United Nations to immediately strip Beijing of its participatory status at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and act swiftly to address the annihilation and atrocities committed against the religious minorities, resid
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UN experts appalled by enforced disappearance of Pak activist Idris Khatta
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], July 2 (ANI): UN human rights experts have condemned the enforced disappearance of Idris Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender, calling it an "intolerable attack" on his legitimate work against a range of human rights and minority violations in the Khyber Pakhtunkh
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