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Pak: Former PM Imran Khan's legal team appeals to UN on human rights viola
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The international legal team representing former Pakistan PM Imran Khan has filed an appeal with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, after citing severe human rights violations taking place during his ongoing detention, Geo TV reported.
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Journalist Siddique Kappan, 10 others booked for obstructing pedestrian mo
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The event was organised on Saturday evening at Vanchi Square near the Kerala High Court junction by human rights organisations to condemn the arrest of Kerala-based journalist Rejaz M Sheeba Sydeek.
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UK: 25 arrested for violent clashes as over 110,000 join anti-immigration
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
At least 25 people were arrested on Saturday (local time) after violent clashes erupted during one of the United Kingdom's largest right-wing demonstrations in recent years, according to a statement issued by London's Metropolitan Police Service.
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Baloch families mark two months of protest in Islamabad
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Sammi Deen Baloch, a prominent human rights activist, condemned the delayed justice for Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders. According to Sammi Deen Baloch, the sit-in by Baloch families demanding the safe recovery of their forcibly disappeared family members has entered its second month
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"Vijay has now woken up and is meeting people": Congress' R Sudha slams TV
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the Congress MP said, "Vijay has now woken up and is going around meeting people. Congress and the Dravidian movements have always been fighting for the people's issues and for social justice. It is not right for him to say such things now, with the mindset
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Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar demands withdrawal of Maratha reservation
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"Due to this GR, a situation has arisen for the OBC community, because of which the government is affecting the rights of the OBC community. The government should withdraw this GR. A movement should be carried out with this demand, and a fight should be fought; a discussion was held on this,
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Assam: NHRC takes suo motu cognisance of reported assault on media person
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raise a serious issue of human rights violations. Therefore, it has issued a notice to the Director General of Police, Assam, calling for a detailed report on the matter within two weeks," the release said.
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WUC weekly brief highlights UN warning, transnational repression and Uyghu
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has released its weekly brief, highlighting attention to ongoing human rights abuses in East Turkistan, Beijing's campaign of intimidation against Uyghurs abroad, corporate complicity in forced labour, and the unresolved disappearance of Gulshan Abbas.
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Chinese Embassy officials interfere in Nepal's local issues, claims Lobsan
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Former Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay pointed to Nepal as a clear example of Chinese political overreach. "Let's say Nepal, they didn't believe so, right? Now, yes, the Chinese embassy and the officials are interfering in local issues," he said. "The Chinese embassy, perha
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Exceller Books' International Excellence Award honours outstanding literar
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 13: In the Female Writers category, 15 distinguished authors are celebrated. Prodipta Soni's Lost Homes - The Untold Stories captivates, while Hajra Bano's Who Am I; Breaking Barriers as a Specially Abled Care Leaver inspires. Rinkal J Vadoliya's Sabandhekrahasya
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Pakistan called out for ethnic cleansing in PoJK, PoGB at UN Rights Counci
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
At the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), speaker Fidencie Izabayo, from an international NGO, Reveil communautaire d'assistance aux victims, based in Burundi, raised alarm over what she described as Pakistan's "grave and deliberate crime against humanity" in Pa
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Long overdue but disappointing: Bengal Minister Shashi Panja on PM's Mani
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"What the people of Manipur think about this is crucial, what they feel they should put forward. This is a truth that that the situation of human rights in the state, the injustice being done, the fights being done. Everything, whatever insult to women could be done was done. They were hopin
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