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Indian Constitution protects rights of Dalits in India, student activist t
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
“Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who is known as the "Father of the Indian Constitution" played a crucial role in ensuring that the Constitution guaranteed fundamental rights and equal protection before the law to all citizens, regardless of their caste or religion”, she said in her intervention.
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UNHRC urged to protect rights of religious minorities in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Victims of blasphemy along with other human rights activists urged the United Nations to protect the minorities in Pakistan by bringing urgent reforms.
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Pakistan recruiting mercenaries to pursue its political agenda in South As
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A research analyst came down heavily on Pakistan for openly recruiting mercenaries and terrorist organizations to pursue its own interests and political agenda in South Asia.
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Kashmiri activist lambasts Pakistan at UNHRC for targeting ethnic minoriti
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A social activist hailing from India’s Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir has lambasted Pakistan for targeting ethnic minorities, especially Shias.
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Research analyst raises human rights violations in Pakistan at UNHRC
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Michela Mutovciev, a Research Analyst at Amsterdam-based EFSAS think-tank made her intervention during the Interactive dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances during the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday.
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Pakistani Christian activist at UNHRC exposes Pakistan for mistreating min
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A human rights activist from the Christian community in Pakistan has exposed the Islamic nation for mistreating them and using national security laws to persecute the minority community.
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Activist from Gilgit Baltistan raises human rights issues at UNHRC
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
He highlighted how coercive measures were adopted in Gilgit Baltistan by a state-owned telecom company Special Communications Organisation and has curtailed and curbed rights to freedom of expression in urban and rural areas of Gilgit Baltistan, affecting human rights of local people.
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India Water Foundation at UNHRC highlights progress in sanitation and righ
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
They also commended Clean India or Swachh Bharat Mission wherein 105 Million toilets were built bringing behavioural change in almost 600 million Indians.
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Afghan refugees hold protest in front of UNHRC office in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Afghan refugees held a protest in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) office in Pakistan's federal capital Islamabad, saying that no practical action has been taken to address their problems, ToloNews reported.
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UN officer highlights political repression, cultural assimilation faced by
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
The Office of Tibet- Geneva and Society for Threatened Peoples, on the sidelines of the 53rd United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session, joined forces to organize a side event focusing on China's ongoing repression in Tibet, titled "Tibetans Report on the Current State of Repression
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Restrictions on women and girls should be removed in Afghanistan: UN
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Representatives from several countries at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) criticized the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan and asked the Taliban administration to remove the gender-based restrictions on women and girls, Khaama Press reported.
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1971 Genocide: Bangladesh seeks apology and acknowledgement
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Even the Pakistani state, after 51 years, has not tendered a formal apology to Bangladesh for the crimes committed by its army. It has not put on trial the 195 war criminals identified by Bangladesh in 1972 as the principal perpetrators.6 On the contrary, one can find the Pakistani state ado
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