Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders made this comment days after the NIA formally arrested jailed Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society programme coordinator Khurram Parvez in connection with...
The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday told the Supreme Court that state laws, which had led to the setting up of commissions like human rights committees, have now been repealed and some fresh panels were set up...
Peter Gabriel, English rock music legend and human rights champion who's best-known for his anti-apartheid anthem, 'Biko', has been dropping, according to 'Variety', new songs with each full moon this year.
US President Joe Biden sends his best wishes to Muslims worldwide as they begin the holy month of Ramzan, reaffirming the country's support for Muslim communities facing hardships and devastation. Secretary of State Antony...
Delegates of different countries, who came to Amritsar to participate in a G20 meeting, on Friday paid obeisance at the Golden Temple here.
Women’s Day: Fear is growing that Iran is preparing to execute more protesters, charging them with ‘enmity against God’ and ‘corruption on earth’.
Irfan Mehraj was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in connection with a terror funding case.
The crucial report has pointed out that sexuality education in primary education is compulsory in 68 per cent countries and in secondary education in 76 per cent. More than six in 10 countries cover topics such as gender...
Witch hunting is not new to India as the evil persists in all its numbing brutality and scale. This issue is dedicated to the women who were killed and to...
Senator Walid Iqbal argued that gender cannot be derived from internal feeling or internal sense of being but instead is solely based on physical appearance,...
Ongoing evictions and demolition drives in J&K are a 'gross violation' of human rights, says Amnesty International, asking UK’s construction giant JCB to...
EU had already imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iranian officials and organisations — including ministers, military officers and Iran's morality police...
Thursday's deaths take the death count to 17 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military in the West Bank since the beginning of 2023. Nearly 150 Palestinians...
“You can't imagine what it's like to feel helpless to save your child, blood was everywhere”, Elias said, whose 16-year-old son was dragged to a Jerusalem...
State-owned Qatar Airways' lucrative advertising deal is due to expire at the end of the season and there is pressure on the Bavarian powerhouse from its own...
The Israeli forces are conducting near-daily raids in Palestinian towns and cities since last spring. They defend these rids as a mean to disrupt militant...
Syria: The years long US-backed campaign had succeeded in crushing the militants' territorial control in Iraq and Syria, but IS fighters maintain sleeper cells...
He pointed to ‘terrible consequences’ of a decision to bar women from working for non-governmental organisations.
Micheal Mitama, who actively fought in the war, headed back to Ukraine to prepare for joining the special operations.
According to Wang Yi, China will deepen its ties with Russia in the coming year, despite its position on the war in Ukraine.
China’s measures has come in response to the US sanctioning two Chinese citizens ‘under the excuse of the Tibet human rights' issue’.
Ministry of External Affairs said India has consistently supported the cause of female education in Afghanistan.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took suo motu cognisance of the incident. The commission has It observed that the reported incident raises serious...
The separatist amalgam Hurriyat has appealed international human rights organisations to play their part in ensuring that the ‘conflict is resolved’.
This day is widely recognised to raise awareness about people’s social, cultural, political and religious rights. Through this article, let's dive deep into...
