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...'son preference', this would send a strident message to the people of India," she says. "The future of India depends on turning this around now, and the U.S. has the power to influence this change," Wheeler writes, concluding, "As a new Human...

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And community workers from Nepal and Papua New Guinea told the seminar, on the fringes of a session of the UN's 47-member Human Rights Council, that "witch-hunting" was now common, both in rural communities and larger population centres.

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...(UNHRC), a senior American diplomat said here Friday. "We spoke about improving the UNHRC," Maria Otero, US under secretary for democracy and human rights, told reporters here Friday. The discussions were part of the annual US-India Global...

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...Congress leader from Tamil Nadu on Tuesday demanded that India should support a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to be moved by 19 countries demanding action against Sri Lanka for human rights violation during...

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...of discrimination based on work and descent". The Indian government had lobbied heavily for the Human Rights Council to remove the word 'caste' from a draft earlier this year. India's opposition was undermined however by Nepal, the...

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...Tamils." In May, India supported a resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva which commended the Sri Lankan government on its defeat of the Tamil Tigers and its efforts to address the needs of the displaced. The...

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...they said. India was part of a group led by China and Russia that blocked a proposal for a war crimes inquiry at a special session of the UN Human Rights Council last week, and instead supported a resolution praising Sri Lanka. Brad Adams,...

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...region where untouchability has been traditionally practiced -- to declare support for the draft principles and guidelines published by UNHRC four months ago for ``effective elimination of discrimination based on work and descent'' -- the UN...

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...Tigers SRI Lanka claimed a propaganda victory last night after the United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution praising its defeat of the Tamil Tigers and condemning the rebels for using civilians as human shields. China,...

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