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'Plight of missing persons have increased': NGO highlights issue o
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], February 20 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC), an NGO, had a virtual meeting with the United Nations Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances, wherein they agreed to make a more concerted efforts to raise the International Community's understanding of the
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Pakistani rights group joins hands with Taiwanese NGO to raise min
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Faisalabad [Pakistan], January 30 (ANI): The Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), a human rights group based in Faisalabad, has joined hands with the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) to raise the issue of rights for minorities in Pakistan on international platforms.
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Pakistan a death trap for journalists, human rights defenders,mino
Updated : 7 months, 1 week ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 30 (ANI): Slamming the "fabricated words" presented by Pakistan, India on Wednesday at the United Nations Human Rights Council highlighted that incessant efforts on its part to malign India in all international forums is not going to change the fact that hundr
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Dr Kafeel Khan writes to UN experts, urges Centre to 'release huma
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): Dr Kafeel Khan has written to United Nations human rights experts in reference to their letter dated June 26, 2020, urging the Indian government to immediately release human rights defenders.
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Dissidents condemn enforced disappearances, state-sanctioned killi
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], May 19 (ANI): Expressing concerns over enforced disappearances, state-sanctioned killings in Pakistan, prominent Pakistani dissidents, human rights defenders, and peace activists from around the world have asserted that repression by authorities in the country has incre
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Daughter of missing Pashtun activist lambasts Pakistan for silenci
Updated : 11 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Peshawar [Pakistan], May 15 (ANI): Talia Khattak, daughter of a prominent human rights defender Idris Khattak, has lambasted Pakistan for silencing dissidents.
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Religious freedom in Pakistan continues to 'deteriorate': UK-based
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], Dec 16 (ANI): Asserting that religious freedom in Pakistan continues to "deteriorate" under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), a UK-based human rights organisation, has said that discriminatory legislation by the Pakistan Tehree
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Geneva: Activists tear into Pak for atrocities against Baloch, fal
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sep 11 (ANI): Baloch political activists and human rights defenders have lambasted on Pakistan for atrocities against Baloch people at the same time when the cash-strapped nation is crying foul over Kashmir at the 42nd United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) here.
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Amnesty to Pakistan: End alarming poll-linked crackdown
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [United States], June 15 (ANI): New York-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International has appealed to authorities in Pakistan to end what it described as an alarming crackdown on human rights defenders, activists, journalists and other civil society members in the run up to the
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Activists blame Pakistan for harbouring terrorists and targeting m
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 21 (ANI): Political activists and human rights defenders have blamed Pakistan for crushing voices of dissent and harbouring terrorists.
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Economic exploitation and state oppression in Balochistan echoes i
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland] Sept 18 (ANI): Baloch activists and human rights defenders raised their voice against the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and termed it as a project of looting and plundering of natural wealth of Balochistan.
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Balochistan demands appointment of UN special rapporteur to look i
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): Baloch political activists and human rights defenders raised the situation of deteriorating human rights in Balochistan and condemned the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) at a side event during the 34th Session of UN Human Rights Council here.
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