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How Global Watchdogs Reacted To Tax Searches At BBC India Offices
Global media watchdogs and human rights bodies on Tuesday criticised the Indian government's income tax survey operations at the BBC's offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, saying the action "smacks of intimidation".
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Human Rights Watch Head To Step Down After Nearly 3 Decades
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said on Tuesday he would step down at the end of August after running the global rights watchdog for nearly three decades.
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Australia's "A Rating" Human Rights Status Is At Risk
A global watchdog has threatened Australia's Human Rights Commission with a potential downgrade of its international status over concerns about political involvement in key leadership appointments.
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Social Media Disinformation, Surveillance Seen as Growing Threats to Democracy: Freedom House
Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, in a worrisome trend for democracy, human rights watchdog Freedom House said Tuesday.
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Pak Rights Body Raises Concern Over Forced Conversions Of Girls
Pakistan's independent human rights watchdog on Monday raised concerns about incidents of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls, saying around 1,000 such cases were reported just in the southern Sindh province alone last year.
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Modi Government Trying To Silence Critics Through Raids, Says Amnesty
After Greenpeace, it was Amnesty International's turn to face Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on Thursday for allegedly accepting foreign funding through illegal means. The human rights watchdog was quick to identify a link between the two crackdowns and the government's "attempts to silence critics".
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Authorities Negligence Apparent In Amritsar Train Accident: Watchdog
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today issued notices to the Railways and the Punjab government over the Amritsar accident in which nearly 60 Dussehra revellers were killed when they were run over by a train while watching the festivities. Issuing the notices, the Commission observed that it cannot be said to be a "sane act" by people to...
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PM Modi To Attend Function As National Human Rights Commission Turns 25
The National Human Rights Commission, which has served as a "watchdog of democracy" and been part of some landmark cases in which its intervention had significant impact, Friday completed 25 years.
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Rights Group Calls On Pakistan To End Enforced Disappearances
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to resolve hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances for which "no one has ever been held accountable".
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More Governments Manipulate Media With 'Bots,'Trolls: Study
More governments are following the lead of Russia and China by manipulating social media and suppressing dissent online in a grave threat to democracy, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday.
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Pakistan Abducts Own Citizens, Muzzles Rights Watchdog: UN
Pakistan must address a catalogue of human rights failings including state-sponsored abductions and a death penalty that amounts to torture, but its national watchdog is muzzled, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Thursday.
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Pakistan Uses Executions As Political Weapon: Rights Group
A human rights watchdog on Friday accused Pakistan of using executions as a "political tool" - and even a means to deal with prison overcrowding.
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'Curry, Not Colour', Says UK Landlord Facing Legal Action For Banning Indian Tenants
A 69-year-old British landlord who instructed agents not to let his properties to people from India and Pakistan is facing legal action, UK's human rights watchdog said today.
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Human Rights Commission Should 'Roar Like A Tiger': Chief HL Dattu
National Human Rights Commission Chairperson Justice HL Dattu today pitched for vesting NHRC with "more power", saying the rights watchdog should "roar like a tiger".
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'Grave Apprehensions' Over Karachi Situation: Pak Rights Body
Pakistan's rights watchdog today expressed "grave apprehensions" over the prevailing human rights and security situation in the country's largest city which it said has aggravated in recent months.
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How Global Watchdogs Reacted To Tax Searches At BBC India Offices
Global media watchdogs and human rights bodies on Tuesday criticised the Indian government's income tax survey operations at the BBC's offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, saying the action "smacks of intimidation".
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Human Rights Watch Head To Step Down After Nearly 3 Decades
Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said on Tuesday he would step down at the end of August after running the global rights watchdog for nearly three decades.
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Australia's "A Rating" Human Rights Status Is At Risk
A global watchdog has threatened Australia's Human Rights Commission with a potential downgrade of its international status over concerns about political involvement in key leadership appointments.
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Social Media Disinformation, Surveillance Seen as Growing Threats to Democracy: Freedom House
Governments around the world are increasingly using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their citizens, in a worrisome trend for democracy, human rights watchdog Freedom House said Tuesday.
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Pak Rights Body Raises Concern Over Forced Conversions Of Girls
Pakistan's independent human rights watchdog on Monday raised concerns about incidents of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls, saying around 1,000 such cases were reported just in the southern Sindh province alone last year.
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Modi Government Trying To Silence Critics Through Raids, Says Amnesty
After Greenpeace, it was Amnesty International's turn to face Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on Thursday for allegedly accepting foreign funding through illegal means. The human rights watchdog was quick to identify a link between the two crackdowns and the government's "attempts to silence critics".
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Authorities Negligence Apparent In Amritsar Train Accident: Watchdog
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) today issued notices to the Railways and the Punjab government over the Amritsar accident in which nearly 60 Dussehra revellers were killed when they were run over by a train while watching the festivities. Issuing the notices, the Commission observed that it cannot be said to be a "sane act" by people to...
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PM Modi To Attend Function As National Human Rights Commission Turns 25
The National Human Rights Commission, which has served as a "watchdog of democracy" and been part of some landmark cases in which its intervention had significant impact, Friday completed 25 years.
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Rights Group Calls On Pakistan To End Enforced Disappearances
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to resolve hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances for which "no one has ever been held accountable".
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More Governments Manipulate Media With 'Bots,'Trolls: Study
More governments are following the lead of Russia and China by manipulating social media and suppressing dissent online in a grave threat to democracy, a human rights watchdog said Tuesday.
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Pakistan Abducts Own Citizens, Muzzles Rights Watchdog: UN
Pakistan must address a catalogue of human rights failings including state-sponsored abductions and a death penalty that amounts to torture, but its national watchdog is muzzled, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Thursday.
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Pakistan Uses Executions As Political Weapon: Rights Group
A human rights watchdog on Friday accused Pakistan of using executions as a "political tool" - and even a means to deal with prison overcrowding.
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'Curry, Not Colour', Says UK Landlord Facing Legal Action For Banning Indian Tenants
A 69-year-old British landlord who instructed agents not to let his properties to people from India and Pakistan is facing legal action, UK's human rights watchdog said today.
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Human Rights Commission Should 'Roar Like A Tiger': Chief HL Dattu
National Human Rights Commission Chairperson Justice HL Dattu today pitched for vesting NHRC with "more power", saying the rights watchdog should "roar like a tiger".
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'Grave Apprehensions' Over Karachi Situation: Pak Rights Body
Pakistan's rights watchdog today expressed "grave apprehensions" over the prevailing human rights and security situation in the country's largest city which it said has aggravated in recent months.
