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Address Discrimination & Hate Crimes India told: CERD, UN
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sharply criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”
US advises American tourists to exercise caution due to cases of sexual assault and terrorism in India
US also advises against travel to Jammu and Kashmir, and places close to the India-Pakistan border
Dubai is now home to one more Hindu temple, first one was built in 1958
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Large majority ratifies ‘family code’ legalising gay marriage; Cuba
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Hadis Najafi, young Iranian woman, symbol of protests after viral video, killed
Newsweek and several international news outlets have reported that the 20-year old, protesting against the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, has been reportedly killed by Iranian security forces during demonstrations in the city of Karaj, near Tehran
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Social media fuels and amplifies onground violence in Leicester, UK, a thorough investigation by the BBC reveals
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