Maoists target civil society: Human Rights Watch
July 30th, 2012 - 11:37 am ICT by IANS
Ranchi, July 30 (IANS) Both Maoists and Indian authorities have threatened and attacked civil society activists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday.This has undermined basic freedoms and ... Read more...
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UN: Syrian children detained, tortured and used as human shields
June 13th, 2012 - 11:33 pm ICT by BNO News
NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- Pro-government forces in Syria have detained, tortured and used young children as human shields during the ongoing conflict, which is now being called a civil war by ... Read more...
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US spotlights government corruption in India
May 24th, 2012 - 11:58 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 24 (IANS) The US state department has highlighted "widespread corruption at all levels of government" and separatist, insurgent and societal violence among the most significant human rights problems ... Read more...
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58 gays, lesbians slain this year in Honduras
December 15th, 2011 - 11:53 am ICT by IANS
Tegucigalpa, Dec 15 (IANS/EFE) Dozens of members of Honduras' gay and lesbian community gathered outside the Attorney General's Office in this capital to protest the slayings of 58 gays and ... Read more...
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Pro-democracy Egyptian protestors fear army will install a ‘new Mubarak’ to cling on to power
February 20th, 2011 - 5:06 pm ICT by ANI
Cairo, Feb 20 (ANI): Amid concerns that the current military regime in Egypt is strongly anti-reformist, the pro-democracy protestors fear that the army would promote a candidate as a "new Mubarak" ... Read more...
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Rights groups protest Bengal activist’s arrest
August 20th, 2010 - 12:16 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 19 (IANS) Several human rights organisations Thursday protested against what they called the illegal and arbitrary arrest of social activist Naba Dutta by the West Bengal Police for his alleged ... Read more...
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Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingyas starve in Bangladesh
March 30th, 2010 - 10:26 am ICT by IANS
Dhaka, March 30 (IANS) Thousands of Rohingyas, Muslim tribals from Myanmar who have taken refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh following years of persecution, are allegedly facing "arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion, and forced internment", ... Read more...
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Nepal Army kills three Dalit women
March 12th, 2010 - 4:42 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, March 12 (IANS) Only 48 hours after Nepal's communist-led government declared International Women's Day a national public holiday, soldiers shot dead three Dalit women, including a 12-year-old girl, while ... Read more...
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Human rights groups blast new Ugandan anti-gay bill
October 16th, 2009 - 1:04 pm ICT by IANS
Kampala, Oct 16 (DPA) Human rights groups have blasted Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of "aggravated homosexuality".
The bill proposes stricter penalties ... Read more...
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Ask Colombo to free refugees, Amnesty urges Indian MPs
October 13th, 2009 - 6:43 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 13 (IANS) Indian MPs currently on a visit to Sri Lanka should raise concerns about the "safety and dignity" of the hundreds of thousands of Tamils who have been displaced ... Read more...
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Zardari announces political, legal reforms in tribal areas
August 14th, 2009 - 12:44 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 14 (IANS) Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has announced political and judicial reforms in the northwestern tribal region during a special function on the eve of Pakistan's 63rd Independence ... Read more...
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Overhaul policing system to arrest the alarming human rights violations by police
August 7th, 2009 - 4:48 pm ICT by admin
By Bobby Ramakant, CNSThe Indian government should take major steps to overhaul a policing system that facilitates and even encourages human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released in ... Read more...
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US slams rights record in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal
March 12th, 2008 - 3:20 pm ICT by admin
By Arun Kumar
Washington, March 12 (IANS) Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal have come in for criticism for human rights violations in a new US report. "Despite President (Pervez) Musharraf's stated commitment ... Read more...
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Pakistani media diverse but continue to remain under pressure
January 17th, 2008 - 2:11 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Jan 18 (ANI): Pakistani media have grown more diverse over the years, but continue to face pressures and harassment from its federal government and other authorities, the annual report on state ... Read more...
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Pak Caucus US Congresswoman tables ‘lift emergency in Pak’ bill in House of Representatives
November 14th, 2007 - 10:22 am ICT by admin
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