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Syria: Warring parties failed to abide by international law over hospital attacks

New York : Parties to Syria’s brutal civil war, now in its tenth year, failed to abide by their obligations under international law to avoid attacks on hospitals and other civilian facilities that featured on the UN’s so-called deconfliction list, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday. more

Prison shelling in Yemen kills five women and a child: UN rights chief condemns possible war crime

New York : The UN has condemned the shelling of the women’s section of the Central Prison in a district of Yemen’s war-torn Taizz Governerate, in the south of the country, whi ...

Rights experts warn against discrimination in COVID-19 response

New York : Fearing a needless increase in COVID-19 deaths due to discrimination, UN independent human rights experts on Monday called for Governments to commit to racial equity and equali ...

Pakistan mulling army deployment in Gilgit Baltistan, says PoK activist Amjad Ayub Mirza

Islamabad: Doubting that it might be an attempt to establish absolute army rule, a human rights activist has alleged that the Pakistan Army is considering a massive deployment of troops i ...

COVID-19 outbreak: Journalists protest against police torture in Gilgit

Gilgit: Journalists have protested against police action in Pakistan occupied Kashmir's Gilgit Baltistan region after cops allegedly tortured a scribe who was reporting fr ...

SAD leader Sira targets Imran Khan over pro-Khalistan leader's Nankana Sahib land loot charges

New Delhi/: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa has slammed Pakistan PM Imran Khan on Tuesday over pro-Khalistan leader and Hafiz Saeed-aide Gopal Chawla's alllegat ...

COVID-19: PoK migrant workers stuck in Karachi, political activists slam govt over mismanagement

Islamabad: Politicial activists have attacked Pakistan government by alleging that it is not providing food and other crucial items needed by throusands of migrant workers from Pakistan-o ...

India's Kashmir region fights COVID-19: Young social activists help poor in Pulwama

Pulwama: India's Jammu and Kashmir region is witnessing a crisis like rest of the world due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the resultant lockdown. But to help the poor people of the reg ...

Covid 19: Catholic Church of Asia head Cardinal Charles Maung Bo holds Chinese govt accountable

Yangon (Myanmar): Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, head of the Catholic Church in Asia, has minced no words in blaming the Chinese regime for the global Covid-9 contagion. The prelate, who is a ...

Pakistan: Top South Asian journalists' body condemns arrest of Jang-Geo Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman

New Delhi: Leading editors and media professionals from South Asia have protested against the arrest of Jang-Geo Group Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman by Pakistan's National Acco ...