human rights
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Are two decades of human rights activism in Kashmir drawing to a close?
Safwat Zargar
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It’s time for SAARC to go beyond symbolism and adopt a regional human rights oversight mechanism
Umran Chowdhury, Dhaka Tribune
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‘Terror associates’ or ‘human shields’? Three men killed in a recent Srinagar gunfight
Safwat Zargar
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An ‘encounter’ in Jharkhand shows nothing has changed for Adivasis since a 2015 study by Stan Swamy
Riddhi Dastidar, IndiaSpend.com
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Amnesty International to shut its Hong Kong offices because of national security law
Scroll Staff
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Preventive detention: Ex-bureaucrats flag amendment that has not been notified for 43 years
Scroll Staff
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In India, fears grow that facial recognition systems may be used to target minorities
Aishwarya Jagani
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SC order to vaccinate patients in mental health facilities is welcome – but more needs to be done
Shantha Rau Barriga
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UN human rights chief’s remarks on J&K are ‘unwarranted’, do not reflect ground reality, says India
Scroll Staff
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‘Voice with the loudest megaphone controls the public sphere’: Philippines journalist Maria Ressa
Scroll Staff
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India must offer shelter to Myanmarese asylum seekers even though it lacks a refugee protection law
Nandita Haksar
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By becoming an arbiter of free speech, Facebook is stepping in where governments won’t
Wendy H Wong, The Conversation Nicholas Weller, The Conversation
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Raise human rights concerns on India visit, US panel on foreign relations tells defense secretary
Scroll Staff
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Beaten, not broken: Meet Shiv Kumar and Nodeep Kaur, young labour activists inspired by Bhagat Singh
Vijayta Lalwani
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Delhi violence: Safoora Zargar’s arrest violated international human rights treaties, says UN panel
Scroll Staff
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India loses its status as ‘free’ in Freedom House’s 2021 report
Scroll Staff
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Human rights violations continue in J&K, says forum led by former SC judge Madan Lokur
Scroll Staff
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Despite strong words, a Biden-Harris administration is unlikely to change US position on Kashmir
Ipsita Chakravarty
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Why are inmates unable to access basic facilities in Indian prisons?
Vijayta Lalwani
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Eco India: Meet the rights activist who built a sanctuary that today has over 800 rescued animals
Scroll Staff