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Highlighting the "severe miscarriage of justice" due to Pakistan's existing infamous "blood money" laws since 1990, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on the government to amend provisions of the criminal law that allow for murder and oth ...
After seizing powering August the last year, the Taliban instituted a de facto ban on girls' secondary education, even though community pressure resulted in some girls' secondary schools reopening in about nine provinces. ...
Amid strict lockdown measures, breakdown of supply chains, food shortages and increasing COVID-19 cases, the residents of China's economic hub of Shanghai are venting online even as government censors try to control the flood of critical comments pou ...
China's support for Myanmar despite human rights abuses by the Junta and the supply of weapons to its military via Pakistan shows Beijing's continued preference for doing business with abusive and autocratic governments across the world. ...
The Maldives authorities have not credibly addressed threats to free expression and other rights by religious extremist groups, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report released on Thursday. ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday (local time) said that the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan has resulted in a "serious erosion of human rights" in the country. ...