Human Rights
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UN to investigate crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar
Displaced Rohyngia people Photo British Foreign and Commonwealth Office via Wikimedia Commons Responding to international concern over deteriorating human rights conditions in Myanmar, the United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to send an international...March 24, 2017 1105 0 -
Amnesty International asks India to free Kashmiri teens held under controversial law
Human Rights watchdog Amnesty International has urged New Delhi to release two teenage boys detained in Jammu and Kashmir under detention under a controversial law. Rayees Ahmad Mir and Waheed Ahmed Gojree, both 16 years old,...October 22, 2016 744 0 -
UN experts ask India to release human rights activist Khurram Parvez
Top United Nations experts have urged the Indian government to immediately release human rights activist Khurram Parvez, who was arrested last month in Indian controlled Kashmir under a controversial public safety act. “Mr. Parvez is a...October 20, 2016 735 0
