India abstains on UN resolution to probe Iran’s alleged abuses against anti-hijab protesters

Twenty-five countries supported the resolution, six opposed it and 16 others refrained from voting.

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· Nov 25, 2022 · 04:09 pm

If India wants to support Sri Lankans, it must back extension of UN panel probing rights violations

The island nation’s economic crisis is also a political and human rights calamity. There can be no justice until the rights of ordinary Sri Lankans are safe.

Meenakshi Ganguly

· Oct 03, 2022 · 09:00 am

US investigating allegations that turbans of Sikh migrants were taken away at Mexico border

Since June, nearly 50 members of the community have had to take off the religious headgear in Arizona, according to human rights activists.

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· Aug 04, 2022 · 06:46 pm

Confer citizenship to eligible Chakmas and Hajongs, NHRC tells Centre, Arunachal Pradesh

The human rights body gave them three months to comply with a 2015 Supreme Court order.

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· May 20, 2022 · 07:34 pm

Human rights violations: US imposes sanctions on China, Myanmar and North Korea

Washington DC said this was a message that the country will act against those who abuse the power of the state to inflict suffering and repression.

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· Dec 11, 2021 · 09:22 am

Threat to human rights is highest in police stations: Chief Justice of India NV Ramana

The chief justice said that constitutional right to legal aid and availability of free legal services was necessary to keep police excesses under check.

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· Aug 08, 2021 · 08:04 pm

Covid: NHRC calls for special law to uphold dignity of dead as bodies found along Ganga river

The commission said it was the duty of the states to ‘protect the rights of the deceased’ and suggested that a standard operating procedure should be prepared.

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· May 15, 2021 · 01:38 pm

By becoming an arbiter of free speech, Facebook is stepping in where governments won’t

Media platforms constantly make judgements about appropriate speech, and Facebook’s global reach gives its Oversight Board tremendous influence.

Wendy H Wong, The Conversation

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Nicholas Weller, The Conversation

· Mar 23, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Explained: What the UK court ruling allowing Shamima Begum to return means

In 2015, Begum left Britain as a 15-year-old to purportedly join the Islamic State in Syria.

Devyani Prabhat, The Conversation

· Jul 20, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Dubai princess Sheikha Latifa was captured by Indian Coast Guard in 2018, says UK court

The Indian government did not react to the case and the allegations that Sheikha Latifa was captured on the instructions of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Makt.

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· Mar 08, 2020 · 01:07 pm

In nearly half of the world’s countries, slavery has not yet been criminalised

De facto slavery, where a person holds power over another akin to ownership, still exists.

Katarina Schwarz, The Conversation

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Jean Allain, The Conversation

· Feb 17, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Human Rights Day 2019: History, the women who shaped the UDHR and theme

On 10th December in the year 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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· Dec 10, 2019 · 08:59 am