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'Intrinsic to our foreign policy, India prefers another approach to issue"
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 7 (ANI): After India abstained on Thursday from voting on a UN Human Rights Council resolution on holding a debate on the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang, experts called this 'intrinsic' to foreign policy and that New Delhi would prefer another approach
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Pakistan indulges in double speak at UNHRC resolution over China's Uyghur
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 6 (ANI): While Pakistan claims to speak for the rights of Muslims, the country at a UNHRC resolution on Thursday "appreciated" China's "efforts" to protect the minority communities in Xinjiang. This region has been widely known for Beijing's grave human rights v
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India abstains from voting in UNHRC over holding debate on rights situatio
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 6 (ANI): India on Thursday abstained from voting on a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on holding a debate on the human rights situation in China's Xinjiang.
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UNHRC adopts resolution over Sri Lanka's rights situation, India abstains
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 6 (ANI): While abstaining to vote on the UNHRC draft resolution on human rights in Sri Lanka, India on Thursday said it has always been guided by two fundamental principles -- "support to the aspirations of the Tamils for equality" and "peace and sovereignty of
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51st UNHRC: China tries to meddle over Dalai Lama's reincarnation
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 4 (ANI): China at an event held on the sidelines of the 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council tried to meddle in choosing the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.
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Activist Shuib Lone at UNHRC highlights issue of cross-border terrorism in
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], October 4 (ANI): Activist Shuib Lone has highlighted the issue of cross-border terrorism in Kashmir, at a United Nations Human Rights Council event.
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At UNHRC, Dutch group raises issue of fixing blame on China for Xinjiang g
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 30 (ANI): Netherlands-based group, the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) has raised in the UNHRC, the issue of Uyghurs, the ethnic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, and pushed to attribute blame on Chinese government authorities for human rig
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World does not need lessons on democracy, human rights from Pakistan: Indi
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): Slamming Pakistan for atrocities against its minorities, India said that the world does not need lessons on democracy and human rights from a country whose contribution to the globalisation of terror is unparalleled.
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Kashmiri intellectual raises at UNHRC Islamabad's repeated attempts to ame
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 27 (ANI): A Kashmiri intellectual and human rights activist raised the issue of Islamabad's repeated attempts to change the status of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) by amending the 1974 Interim Constitution.
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China's economic clout forces African countries to turn blind eye to Xinji
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Johannesburg [South Africa], September 27 (ANI): While the recent report of United Nations Human Rights on China's treatment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region has brought global condemnation, most of the African countries were silent on it due to Beijing's heavy e
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Experts discuss terrorism, effects on human rights in South Asia at UNHRC
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 26 (ANI): Experts and human rights activists discussed the proliferation of terrorist organizations in the region of South Asia during the 51th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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'Baloch Lives Matter' seminar highlights human rights violations in Baloch
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 23 (ANI): A seminar titled `Baloch Lives Matter: Aspects of human rights violations in Balochistan' was organized by Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) in Geneva on the occasion of the 51st Session of UNHRC on Thursday.
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