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Human Rights body calls on UN to address enforced disappearances, extra
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) has submitted a written statement to the UN Human Rights Council for its upcoming 56th Session, highlighting the enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of Baloch people in Balochistan by Pakistani state authorities.
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UN experts condemn forced marriages, religious conversions in Pakistan
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
"Christian and Hindu girls remain particularly vulnerable to forced religious conversion, abduction, trafficking, child, early and forced marriage, domestic servitude and sexual violence," the experts said in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday.
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India votes in favour of UNHRC's resolution to support 'right to self-dete
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The UNHRC on Thursday adopted a resolution on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice.
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PoK activists stage anti-Pakistan protest outside UN, demand dismantling o
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The protest against human rights violations in Pakistan and its occupied Jammu Kashmir was held during the 55th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.
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Activist highlights human rights violations in PoK
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
He made the remarks at a side event organised on the sidelines of the ongoing 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Activist raises issue of racial discrimination prevailing in PoK
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
He emphasised that this constitutional racial discrimination by Pakistan's occupying forces blatantly violates the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.
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TCHRD releases annual report of human rights situation in Tibet 2023
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Tibetans face restrictions not only on their right to freedom of assembly but also on expressing opinions or criticisms against repressive and unjust government policies, both online and offline.
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UN: United Kashmir People's National Party chairman highlights grave human
Updated : 1 year, 12 months ago IST
"Our organization is deeply concerned about the grave human rights violations in PoK and GB, where residents are deprived of their fundamental rights, including civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as the right to development. Peaceful activists and members of
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Baloch human rights activists urge UNHRC to intervene in deteriorating rig
Updated : 2 years ago IST
A Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) delegation, during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), submitted a memorandum highlighting the deteriorating human rights situation in Balochistan and urging the international organisation to intervene.
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Baloch activists raise 'anti-Pakistan' slogans at UNHRC in Geneva
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The Baloch National Movement (BNM) organized an 'anti-Pakistan protest' at the Broken Chair sculpture in Geneva during the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday.
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Iran condemns UN's report on protest crackdown, calls it "false and biased
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Iran has condemned the United Nations report stating that Iran's violent crackdown in 2022 on peaceful protests and the specific targeting of women and girls were serious rights violations, many amounting to crimes against humanity, reported Al Jazeera.
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'India not only strengthens food security for its people but also for neig
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Arvind Kumar, president of the India Water Foundation, emphasized on Thursday that India is one of the very few countries, that not only strengthens food security for its people but also for its neighbours and other countries of the global south when needed.
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