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  • 12/1 - Karzai, Obama discuss new policy...Pakistani lawmaker killed 1 Dec 2009 12:12 GMT
    ... Karzai, Obama discuss new policy...Pakistani lawmaker killed » View Picture » Play ... on minarets next to mosques. The U.N. human rights chief says the ban is discriminatory and puts it on a collision course ...

  • Karzai, Obama discuss new policy...Pakistani lawmaker killed 1 Dec 2009 13:31 GMT
    ... Karzai, Obama discuss new policy...Pakistani lawmaker killed » View Picture » Play ... on minarets next to mosques. The U.N. human rights chief says the ban is discriminatory and puts it on a collision course ...

  • Pakistan turning Gilgit into its colony 1 Dec 2009 15:53 GMT
    ... a long history of protests against Islamabad's discriminatory policies,Gilgit-Baltistan remains a neglected center of inequity ... neglected center of inequity and widespread suffering. Pakistan has continuously suppressed the people of Gilgit-Baltistan; ... denied them the most basic constitutional and human rights; blocked access to development and an equitable ...

  • Why so many new minarets in India when the Swiss are voting against them? Listen to the global community! 1 Dec 2009 11:54 GMT
    ... Muslim countries have registerded reservations to the Human Rights Declaration; - Building of churches is formally ... and forced into forced marriages (Irak, Iran, Pakistan); - Christians are treated as second-class citzens ... cannot choose your race or gender therefore discrimination on those grounds is totally unjust. Religion, ...

  • Swiss Minaret Ban Draws International Criticism 1 Dec 2009 10:53 GMT
    ... religious freedom, said the ban marked "clear discrimination" against Switzerland's Muslim minority community and urged ... "As also stated by the United Nations Human Rights Committee a month ago, such a ban ... came from across the Muslim world with Pakistani religious groups condemning it as "extreme Islamophobia." ...

  • Opinion: Much Ado About Minarets 1 Dec 2009 00:46 GMT
    ... Jahangir, who called the ban "a clear discrimination against members of the Muslim community in ... the Muslim community in Switzerland," is from Pakistan. To blaspheme or convert from Islam to ... at the time. Even worse, the UN's Human Rights Council is now pushing a . Where ...

  • Neutrality be Damned- Switzerland's Ban on Minarets Seen as a Violation of Freedom of Religion 1 Dec 2009 11:55 GMT
    ... bias and bigotry by some local officials, human rights organizations and Muslim groups across Europe and ... that’s targeted towards one religious community is discriminatory and abhorrent.” He also stated that he ... Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others, Christians and other minorities do ...

  • Full text: Joint Statement of the 12th EU-China Summit 30 Nov 2009 11:00 GMT
    ... commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights, the rule of law, and the strengthening ... as well as developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Leaders stressed the important role played by ... demand should be based on transparency and non-discrimination of foreign invested enterprises. They recognized the ...

  • Switzerland faces backlash over minaret ban 30 Nov 2009 18:37 GMT
    ... as anti-Islamic. One Muslim organisation branded it "discriminatory and abhorrent", others denounced Sunday's decision "an ... "an attack on freedom of beliefs". In Pakistan, Khurshid Ahmad, vice president of Jamaat-e-Islami, a ... guarantees on religious freedom in the European Human Rights Convention. The Swiss Green party said that ...

  • Swiss face minaret backlash 30 Nov 2009 19:01 GMT
    ... as anti-Islamic. One Muslim organisation branded it "discriminatory and abhorrent", others denounced Sunday's decision "an ... "an attack on freedom of beliefs". In Pakistan, Khurshid Ahmad, vice president of Jamaat-e-Islami, a ... guarantees on religious freedom in the European Human Rights Convention. The Swiss Green party said that ...

  • Religious leaders 'deplore' Swiss vote to ban minarets 30 Nov 2009 19:01 GMT
    ... Thomas Wipf, said, "The universal validity of human rights, particularly the right to free exercise of ... human rights law and constituting "a clear discrimination" against the country's Muslims. "I have deep ... said Jahangir, a human rights lawyer from Pakistan. The result of the vote adds one ...

  • Girl Child, Eliminating Racism, Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism Among Issues, as Third Committee Approves Five More Texts, Concludes Session 27 Nov 2009 15:55 GMT
    ... Girl Child, Eliminating Racism, Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism Among Issues, as Third ... of all forms of racism and racial discrimination by one of five draft resolutions approved ... Argentina, New Zealand, Syria, Saint Lucia, Venzuela, Pakistan, Cuba and Benin. The delegations of Bosnia ...

  • Human rights cuts harm image 25 Nov 2009 01:55 GMT
    ... cuts to the Equality Authority and Irish Human Rights Commission, a London-based human rights lawyer told ... good records have a precedent.” He said Pakistan had recently cited Ireland's blasphemy law as ... they engage in unfair lending or other discriminatory practices. British social justice activist Karen Chouhan ...

  • Commonwealth's help in resolving the Kashmir issue would usher in a new era of a peaceful coexistence between India and Pakistan 28 Nov 2009 15:15 GMT
    ... demand for justice, freedom, and respect for human rights. Mr. Mushtaq A. Jeelani, Executive Director of ... because of continuing rivalry between India and Pakistan. They have fought three major wars since ... and cultural progress without any form of discrimination. The Executive Director underscored that the right ...

  • Text of Joint Statement From Singh and Obama 25 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... openness, and respect for fundamental freedoms and human rights – are acquiring an increasingly greater prominence ... the defeat of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan and Afghanistan. President Obama appreciated India’s role ... nuclear technology, for global non-proliferation, and universal, non-discriminatory and complete nuclear disarmament. Part of that ...


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