Search For "human rights"
China dismisses human rights activists torture claims as 'fake news&#
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Mar. 03 (ANI): China has branded claims that a leading human rights lawyer was tortured by government agents as 'fake news.'
Read More
NHRC issues notice to Delhi Govt.over reports of dead rat found in mid-day
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar.2 (ANI): Taking suo motu cognizance of media reports that a dead rat was found in the mid-day meal served to the children at the Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Deoli, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday said that if this report of nine chi
Read More
District administration seeks to make Kupwara a "Model RTI" dist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kupwara (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Mar.2 (ANI): Seeking to make Kupwara a "model RTI" district, the District Administration has invited the Jammu and Kashmir RTI Movement (J & K RTIM) and the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) to provide technical assistance to publi
Read More
US reconsidering UN council membership, urges body to end Israel 'obs
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New York [USA], Mar. 2 (ANI): President Donald Trump's administration has confirmed it is reviewing the United States' participation in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), warning Wednesday that it wants the body to reform its agenda and end its "obsession with Is
Read More
Amnesty Intl slams Pak Govt for inaction against attacks on journalists, a
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Mar. 1 (ANI): Reprimanding the Pakistani Government over its inaction against the endangerment of the lives of journalists, bloggers, activists, Global human rights organisation Amnesty International on Wednesday called on the government to take urgent action.
Read More
Pakistan must vacate illegally occupied Kashmir: India at UN
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland] Mar., 1 (ANI): Asserting that Pakistan is a state that regards the use of terrorism as a legitimate instrument of statecraft and provides sanctuary to UN-designated terrorists, India in its reply to Islamabad's statement at the United Nation Human Rights Council (UN
Read More
Ramjas College clash: NHRC issues notice to Delhi Police over use of exces
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 28 (ANI): Following complaints that female students and media persons were harassed by police personnel during the violent clashes at Ramjas College on February 22nd, the National Human Rights Commission on Tuesday issued a notice to the Delhi Police Commissioner.
Read More
SC directs Centre to fill vacant posts in NHRC by Apr. 30
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 27 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Centre to fill up two vacant posts in the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) by April 30.
Read More
Loss of 'A' status for NHRC: What its means for human rights in
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
By Shambhavi Ravishankar
Read More
PM Modi 'Ramzan Diwali' remark row: Cong. delegation to meet EC
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 20 (ANI): In the wake of the uproar created over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Diwali, Ramzan bhed-bhav' remark, a delegation from the Congress, consisting of Kapil Sibal, Deputy Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma, Rajya Sabha MP Satyawr
Read More
Congress moves EC, seeks 'withdrawal, derecognition' of BJP symb
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 20 (ANI): Branding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Diwali, Ramzan bhed-bhav" remark as deplorable, Secretary of the Legal and Human Rights Department of the Congress party K.C. Mittal on Monday appealed to the Election Commission to exercise its constit
Read More
People of Balochistan await international community's support: Baloch
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Vadodara (Gujarat) [India], Feb. 20 (ANI): Baloch leader Mazdak Dilshad who was in Gujarat's Vadodara on Sunday, asserted that Baloch people are awaiting the support of the international community in connection to their human rights' violation and mass genocide by the Pakistani Arm
Read More