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Baloch civilian dies after custodial torture by Pakistani forces:...
The latest act of brutality comes against the backdrop of a continuing cycle of persecution marked by a surge in extrajudicial killings, enforced...
Pakistan announces protests against desecration of Holy Quran in...
5 July 2023 1:00 PM ISTThe act of the public burning of a copy of the holy book in Stockholm on the occasion of Eid ul Adha sparked worldwide protests and outrage, Geo News...
Baloch raises issue of disappearing enforced cases in Pakistan
10 Oct 2022 7:00 PM ISTAn annual report of the Human Rights Council of Balochistan, an organisation that documents human rights violations in the province, has said that...
UN Human Rights Council to suspend session over COVID-19
12 March 2020 6:16 PM ISTThe top UN rights body decided Thursday to suspend its main annual session at the end of this week over the new coronavirus pandemic.
U.N. hearings probing alleged Israeli rights abuses open in Geneva
7 Nov 2022 9:05 PM ISTOn the first day, three representatives from shuttered Palestinian non-governmental organisations will testify. Neither the hearings nor the U.N....
Russia, Iran sending top envoys to UN's human rights council
26 Feb 2023 4:31 PM ISTAmirabdollahian's visit comes in the wake of vociferous and continued protests that erupted in Iran after the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa...
UN chief slams ‘climate-wrecking’ firms at human rights body
27 Feb 2023 10:05 PM ISTGuterres also sought to undergird the concept of human rights — which have faced “public disregard and private disdain — and tie them together with...
Anna Univ admits renting hall for distribution of fake doctorates
1 March 2023 2:24 PM ISTInternational Anti-Corruption and Human Rights Council rented the university hall and distributed doctorates for celebrities, including music director...