Tue 23 March 2021: Minority community leaders in Sri Lanka have urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) members to consider the discrimination faced by minorities on the island nation ahead of a key vote on its human rights record. The warning comes as the UN’s top rights body prepares to vote on Tuesday […]
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Mon 22 March 2021: A massive fire has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, gutting hundreds of tents and a number of health centres and other facilities, according to officials and witnesses. The blaze at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district erupted in the late afternoon on Monday and spread quickly through […]
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Mon 22 March 2021: The UK government on Monday joined the European Union, Canada and the US to impose its first sanctions against Chinese government officials linked to human rights violations of China”s Uyghur and other minorities in Xinjiang province. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced the sanctions against what the government termed as “perpetrators […]
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Mon 22 March 2021: The India-Pakistan ceasefire marked a milestone in secret talks brokered by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that began months earlier, according to a Bloomberg news report. The UAE, which has historic trade and diplomatic links with India and Pakistan, has taken a more assertive international role under de facto ruler Sheikh […]
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Mon 22 March 2021: Australia’s parliament has debated a motion to condemn China for “serious and systematic breaches” of Uighur rights in the province of Xinjiang, a week after the government blocked a resolution branding Beijing’s treatment of the Muslim minority as genocide. Monday’s motion, which drew support from members of all major parties, urges […]
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Sun 21 March 2021: Pakistan’s minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Saturday clarified that Prime Minister Imran Khan had been infected with Covid-19 before vaccination. Talking to a private news channel, he said the symptoms take a few days before manifesting. Dispelling the rumours about the efficacy of vaccination, the minister […]
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Sun 21 March 2021: AstraZeneca said on Sunday its COVID-19 vaccine contains no pork-derived ingredients, countering an assertion in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, that the drug violates Islamic law. Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council, the Indonesia Ulema Council, said on its website Friday that the vaccine is “haram” because the manufacturing process […]
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Sat 20 March 2021: Thai police used water cannon and rubber bullets outside Bangkok’s Grand Palace Saturday, after demonstrators broke through a barricade of shipping containers to demand reforms to the kingdom’s unassailable monarchy. It was the latest night of unrest since Thailand’s pro-democracy movement kicked off in July, calling for an overhaul of Premier […]
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Sat 20 March 2021: Iranian former president Mohammad Khatami came under fire on Saturday after expressing regret for the “suffering and sorrow” of the country’s people, in rare public comments ahead of June elections. “Instead of offering congratulations to the people, I prefer to offer my sympathy and support for the suffering and sorrow they […]
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Sat 20 March 2021: US Secretary of Defence General Lloyd Austin on Saturday said he had a conversation with Indian ministers about the human rights of minorities in the country as it was important for partners to have “those kinds of discussions”. Asked at a news conference in Delhi if he had spoken with Prime […]
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