Human Rights

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  Human Rights

  2021-11-30

  World Food Programme kicks off food deliveries from Tajikistan to Afghanistan

  The UN agency also began distributing cash in Kabul to about 3,000 families severely hit by the country's growing humanitarian crisis.

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  Human Rights

  2021-11-12

  Regime-fuelled sexism erodes few remaining rights left for Iranian women

  The latest attempt by regime-affiliated organisations to omit women from billboards has set off a wave of criticism from the public.

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  Human Rights

  2021-11-10

  Desperate migrants in Belarus become Russia's geopolitical pawns

  Migrants from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa are being instigated by close Russian ally Belarus to storm the Polish border to create pressure on the European Union to drop sanctions.

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  Human Rights

  2021-10-22

  Dozens of countries demand end to horrors against Muslims in China's Xinjiang

  A declaration signed by 43 countries accused China of a litany of violations of human rights against its Muslim populuation, including torture, forced sterilisation and forced disappearances.

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  Human Rights

  2021-10-04

  China's 'sinicisation' plan does away with mosque domes, Islamic theology

  Beijing's sinicisation policy includes removing mosques' minarets and domes, and replacing the adhan with the national anthem. Imams and worshippers say they are powerless to resist.

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  Human Rights

  2021-09-27

  Taliban evict Hazara farmers, give land to powerful Pashtun leaders

  Forty years after the Hazaras turned barren land into productive farms, the Taliban are kicking them out of their homes and depriving them of their crops.

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  Human Rights

  2021-07-23

  Iran's Baluch minority neglected amid 'coronavirus tsunami'

  As the Delta variant spreads, impoverished Sistan and Baluchestan residents near the Pakistan border are contending with crowded hospitals and a shortage of care.

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  Human Rights

  2021-07-20

  In eastern Afghanistan, Taliban advances meet Beijing's Xinjiang oppression

  Alarm is growing in Beijing over the prospect of having an Islamist group like the Taliban share a border with Xinjiang, where China is engaged in systematic oppression of Muslims.

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  Human Rights

  2021-07-14

  Taliban return to oppression in newly seized Afghan territory

  Women are barred for leaving their homes, men are prohibited from shaving, and local leaders are being forced to provide lists of young women to marry off to the group's fighters.

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  Human Rights

  2021-06-25

  Chinese policies could prevent births of over 4 million Muslim babies in Xinjiang

  Beijing is actively pursuing a policy of decreasing the number of children born to ethnic minorities, and increasing the number of Han Chinese as part of ongoing demographic manipulations.