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Rights activist lawyers’ forum to help steer death abolition campaign
1
July 2009
ROME: Lawyers for Human Rights International, an activist body of
lawyers fighting on human rights front and proactive in the campaign
to abolish death penalty, has... |
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Indian IAS officer threatens Dr Harshinder Kaur
17
June 2009
SWITZERLAND:
In a blatant threat for merely raising a significant issue of
interest to the Punjabi and Sikh community, a senior civil service
official of Punjab threatened... |
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European Court Says No to Sikh Turban
3 December
2008
STRASBOURG: The
European Court of Human Rights dismissed a legal challenge last week to the
French law banning the wearing of the turban on ID document ... |
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Migrants Under Open Skies in Brussels
19 November
2008
Punjabi
and Sikh migrants do not bother risking their lives in search of
their El Dorado. Tejinder Singh interviews some for whom
it seems a dead one but who have still not given up hope... |
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European Parliament launches voice for Sikh causes
12 November
2008
BRUSSELS: On 10
November, Liz Lynne, British member of European Parliament today
launched the All- Party Sikh Interest Group in the European
Parliament... |
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Belgian Court throws out school’s ban on
Patka
9
July, 2008
BRUSSELS: At a
time when Americans were celebrating the spirit of Fourth of July, a
Hasselt Civil Court in Belgium overturned a ban on the patka, the
Sikh boys'... |
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Sikhs banned from European Parliament
14
May,
2008
BRUSSELS:
A delegation of Sikhs from Coventry, Warwickshire and other parts of
the West Midlands were forbidden from entering... |
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Sikh Parade in Carteret sends message about faith’s strength
30
April 2008
CARTERET:
The gritty, working-class enclave of Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian
and German immigrants, Carteret, clearly came out as the cultural... |
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EU MP to
take up turban issue
23 April 2008
Promising
support to the Sikh community, European Union parliamentarian
Godfrey Bloom said he would raise the turban issue in EU Parliament
so that no discrimination... |
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Seven Punjabis in Norway’s local bodies
23 April 2008
OSLO:
Thirty-two years back,Balwinder Kaur was a simple Punjabi woman,
like thousands of her compatriots in Doaba... |
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Sarkozy’s proposal about remembering genocide victims a reminder for Sikhs
20 February 2008
PARIS:
Repeatedly the victims of genocide, often the target of
brahmanisation’s forces and favorite target of majority’s muzzling
muscle, the Sikhs... |
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First ever gurdwara in Eastern Europe
16 January 2008
WARSAW:
For three years now, the local Sikh community in Poland was forced to use a
rented house in the Warsaw suburb of Rashyn... |
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Italy plans memorial to commemorate Malta tragedy
27 December 2007
Jalandhar:
The government of Italy has sanctioned funds for the retrieval of the
remains of 300 victims of the Malta Boat tragedy, Malta Boat Tragedy... |
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Punjab migration worries Germany
7 November, 2007
New Delhi: There is massive immigration pressure from Punjab and
about 5,000 individuals are refused visa every year on the
grounds.... |
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Indians suffer prejudice in Paris
6 September
2006
PARIS: Prejudice and paranoia have
come together in Paris, most so at the Charles de Gaulle airport. While the
situation is worse for... |
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