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Activists raise issue of minority rights in Pakistan during protest outsid
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 16 (ANI): Political activists and human rights defenders participated in a protest in front of the United Nations office in Geneva on Wednesday to raise the issue of persecution of minorities in Pakistan.
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Stop harassment by wrongful prosecution of Chakma's Activists: Complaint
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 12 (ANI): The Chakma Development Foundation of India (CDFI) has filed a complaint seeking the intervention of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) allegedly against false prosecution of the Chakma human rights defenders/community rights.
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Community-based human rights defenders felicitated on Human Rights Day
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 13 (ANI/Heylin Spark): On the eve of Human Rights Day, ActionAid Association felicitated community-based human rights defenders from across the country.
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Taliban continue crack down on Human Rights defenders
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 12 (ANI): Despite the Taliban promise to provide 'general amnesty' to all including Human Rights defenders, social activists, journalists, employees of the former Afghan government and also the ones who worked for American led NATO establishments, reports coming
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UN expresses concern over killing of rights activists in Afghanistan
Updated : 10 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], November 7 (ANI): The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Sunday expressed deep concern over the reports of killing of human rights defenders in the country.
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'Climate of fear' prevails for human rights defenders in Afghanistan: UN E
Updated : 10 months, 4 weeks ago IST
New York [US], November 4 (ANI): Human rights defenders in Afghanistan have reported that they are now enduring a "climate of fear", threats, and becoming increasingly desperate over conditions in the country, an independent UN expert said on Wednesday.
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UK: Balochs, Sindhis pay tribute to Balochistan nationalist Sardar Attaull
Updated : 1 year ago IST
London [England] September 21 (ANI): Human rights defenders from Baloch, Sindhis and other communities living in the UK paid tribute to Sardar Attaullah Mengal who was one of the prominent faces of Baloch national struggle after Pakistan annexed the region in 1948.
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US must plan evacuation of Afghan journalists: RSF
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Paris [France], August 23 (ANI): Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on US President Joe Biden to draw a special plan for evacuating endangered Afghan journalists and human rights defenders.
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Afghanistan faces 'cultural disaster' after fall of Kabul: UN expert
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 18 (ANI): Afghanistan faces a "cultural disaster", following the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, a UN Special Rapporteur on Tuesday urged countries to provide urgent assistance to human rights defenders.
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Tokyo: Protestors demonstrate against human rights abuses by China, calls
Updated : 1 year, 2 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 19 (ANI): A group of protestors on Monday including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Mongolians, and human rights defenders from Hong Kong, Japan and China demonstrated against the human rights abuses by Beijing and called upon the world community to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Oly
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Human rights defenders are tortured in China, says UN expert
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 29 (ANI): A top UN independent expert on Monday highlighted concerns that activists in China were being abused and sentenced to long prison terms or house arrest.
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'Plight of missing persons have increased': NGO highlights issue of enforc
Updated : 1 year, 7 months 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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