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Afghan women journalists say they are now being "barred" from working
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 20 (ANI): Women journalists in Afghanistan have said that they are being barred from working by the Taliban who have overtaken control of the country and who had assured that women would be allowed to work corresponding with Sharia law.
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'Triple Talaq' law unconstitutional, demonizes Muslims: Asaduddin Owaisi
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], August 1 (ANI): Lashing out at the PM Narendra Modi-led central government over the law that criminalises 'triple talaq', AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday said the legislation was "against equality" and "demonizes Muslims."
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Modi govt ended instant triple talaq, provided relief to Muslim women: Naq
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 1 (ANI): As the country observes Muslim Women's Rights Day on August 1, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said that the Narendra Modi government has ended the social malpractice of the instant triple talaq.
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'Muslim Women Rights Day' on August 1 to commemorate 2 years of triple tal
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): The Ministry of Minority Affairs on Saturday said that August 1 will be observed as "Muslim Women Rights Day" across the country to celebrate the second anniversary of the enactment of the law against triple talaq.
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US considers urgent visas for vulnerable Afghan women after troop pull out
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US] July 8 (ANI): Human and Women rights activists have asked the Biden administration to provide up to 2,000 visas specifically for vulnerable women and women's advocates who are at risk after the US troops pull out from Afghanistan.
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Pakistan: Human rights activist under attack after receiving international
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): Gulalai Ismail, a leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) and women rights activist, has come under severe criticism in Pakistan after receiving an award for human rights.
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J-K administration holds drug abuse awareness programme
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 25 (ANI): At a time when cases of drug abuse are rising, the Jammu and Kashmir government organised one-day awareness programmes on drug abuse and women and child rights in Srinagar on Thursday.
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Shirdi dress code appeal: Infringement of right to freedom of expression,
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Shirdi (Maharashtra) [India], December 4 (ANI): After Shri Saibaba Sansthan Temple Trust in Shirdi put up a notice appealing to devotees to dress in "civilized clothes" as per "Indian culture", women rights activist Trupti Desai on Friday called it an infringement of the constitutional right
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Class 9 girl made police station in-charge on World Children's Day
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], November 21 (ANI): A Grade 9 girl was made police station in-charge at Harvansh Mohalla on the occasion of World Children's Day on Friday.
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Centre, state govts not doing anything to prevent 'barbaric' rapes: Activi
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 16 (ANI): Condemning the gang-rape and murder of a girl in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, social activist Yogita Bhayana, on Sunday said that the culprits should be punished with the same brutality and slammed the centre and state governments of not doing anything to
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Kerala HC adjourns to July 7 hearing on Rehana Fathima's anticipatory bail
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], July 2 (ANI): The Kerala High Court on Thursday adjourned till July 7 hearing on women rights activist Rehana Fathima's anticipatory bail application in a case against her for posting a video online of her minor children painting on her half-naked body.
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Booked over video of minor children painting on her body, Rehana Fathima s
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], June 26 (ANI): Women rights activist Rehana Fathima on Friday moved the Kerala High Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered against her for posting a video on social media of her minor children painting on her half-naked body.
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