Human Rights
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Government using foreign funding act to suppress dissenting voices: NGOs, activists
Scroll Staff
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'Psychological torture does not work': A forensic psychologist on interrogating a criminal
Menaka Rao
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Why human rights groups do not want a politician on the National Human Rights Commission
Ipsita Chakravarty
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Russia voted off UN Human Rights Council
Scroll Staff
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UP had highest number of judicial, police custody deaths in Oct 2015-Sept 2016: Human rights panel
Scroll Staff
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UN Goodwill envoy and sex slave survivor Nadia Murad wins Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
Scroll Staff
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The battle over abortion rights in Poland is not yet over
Anne-Marie Kramer, The Conversation
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Imprisoned Uyghur professor wins Martin Ennals Award for 'bringing to light harsh Chinese policies'
Scroll Staff
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The plan to dam Asia's last free-flowing, international river
Diana Suhardiman, The Conversation
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With its new government, Nepal finally has the opportunity to set its ghosts to rest
Meenakshi Ganguly
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A Chhattisgarh father's tragedy: One son framed as a Maoist, another is killed as a police informer
Malini Subramaniam
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India asks UN Human Rights Council to urge Pakistan to penalise people targeting its neighbours
Scroll Staff
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Why hundreds of women have died in the government’s horrific sterilisation camps
Sandhya Srinivasan
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Kashmiri activist says he was stopped from travelling to Geneva for a UN human rights meet
Scroll Staff
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Women are being traded as slaves on WhatsApp – here’s how the UN can act
James Cockayne, The Conversation
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Duterte’s Obama insult was shameful – but the West has turned a blind eye to much, much worse
Tom Smith, The Conversation
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Used wrong, any non-lethal weapon could prove to be fatal in Kashmir
Ipsita Chakravarty
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Though government bodies deny it, manual scavenging is widespread in India despite a ban
Prachi Salve, IndiaSpend.com
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Why the case of an ‘eye-sniper’ officer in Egypt holds important lessons for Kashmir
Athar Parvaiz
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At least 1,800 people killed in Philippines' drive against drugs, says country's police chief
Scroll Staff