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India oi-Deepika S | Published: Friday, September 25, 2020, 23:49 Geneva, Sep 25: India on Friday launched a blistering attack at Pakistan saying the world doesn't need a lesson on human rights from a country known as the "nursery and epicentre of terrorism". Representational Image Addressing the 45th ...

GENEVA: India again gave a befitting reply to Pakistan at the 45th Session of the Human Rights Council at the United Nations on Friday saying that the world doesn't need lessons on human rights from a country which has been known as "nursery and epicenter of terrorism". Addressing the ...

This week, while world leaders and heads of state spoke by video at an unprecedented annual United Nations General Assembly meeting, their ambassadors met at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.However, instead of focusing on China's ethnic cleansing of Uighur Muslims, Iran's merciless execution of wrester Navid Afkari ...

File photo of an anti-CAA protest (For representation) According to the government response in the Lok Sabha, 306 complaints were received by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) regarding the alleged harassment of human rights defenders during the last three years and the current year till August 31, 2020. ...

We remain committed to upholding “all human rights despite cross border terrorism” India on Tuesday made an indirect reference to Pakistan’s involvement in fomenting terrorism in Kashmir and said despite such challenges, grassroots-level democracy has flourished in the volatile region.Speaking at the 45th regular session of the Human Rights ...

NEW DELHI: The number of people to have recovered from coronavirus infection in the country has surged to near 34 lakh, further improving the recovery rate to nearly 78 per cent. Meanwhile, the quest to develop a vaccine for the virus hit a minor roadblock when one of the ...

Glasgow , September 4 (ANI): A political activist from Mirpur Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) has appealed to OIC to convene a special session to discuss human rights situation in Xinjiang. "Appeal to OIC to convene a special session to discuss human rights situation in Chinese occupied East Turkistan also ...

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday announced that it has approved a new plan called “Mission Karmayogi” or the National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building to enhance skill-building in the civil services. During a press briefing to unveil the project, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar described it as the “biggest ...

Iran's security forces were the perpetrators of serious human rights violations against demonstrators in the wake of anti-government protests in November 2019, according to a report by Amnesty International on Wednesday. The UK-based non-governmental organization accused security forces of using torture to elicit confessions, adding that hundreds of civilians have subsequently been imprisoned since last ...

Police in the Indian metropolitan area of Delhi should be investigated for alleged human rights abuses committed during riots that followed protests against a new citizenship law at the end of February, Amnesty International (AI) said on Friday. More than 50 people, most of them Muslims, died in the riots in the ...