Category Minority Rights
Endless wait for Rs 1,000 a month; victims unable to protest due to COVID-19 pandemic By Ruby Sarkar Published: Tuesday 15 June 2021 The women widowed in Bhopal gas tragedy stage a protest seeking pension. Photo: Ruby Sarkar At least 5,000… Continue Reading →
By KM Yadav, Anil Mishra, Shiv Narayan Sharma, Venkatesh Narayanan* It is a depressing fact that the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) has to have a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for dealing with after-the-fact custodial deaths and rapes…. Continue Reading →
by Vaidehi Gautam* We coexist within a complex web of identities and orders, where each practice and concept have its own complicated history according to which a society tends to function. With advancement in the human intellect and an evolving… Continue Reading →
Book burning in Berlin. Germany, May 10, 1933. Sania Muzamil* Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… -The Second Coming… Continue Reading →
For 235 days, Malayalam journalist Siddique Kappan has been in a UP prison, charged with sedition and conspiracy to incite violence. The UP Police claim he is not a journalist, only posed as one while raising funds for terror. But… Continue Reading →
#GazaUnderAttack #PalestineUnderAttack Human Rights Council 30th Special Session on the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem Statement by Action Canada for Population and Development This statement is made on behalf of 8 women’s rights… Continue Reading →
28 May,2021 | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto On its board facing Hill Road, the church displayed this message, shared online by several locals: ‘We pray for Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy in jail for two thirty three days and counting’. Parish priest… Continue Reading →
POSTED ON MAY 26, 2021 On 5 October 2020, the Uttar Pradesh police arrested the freelance journalist Siddique Kappan while he was on his way to report on the brutal gang-rape of a Dalit woman near the city of Hathras… Continue Reading →
by Dr Ramzy Baroud — 18/05/2021 From the outset, some clarification regarding the language used to depict the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine, and also throughout Israel. This is not a ‘conflict’. Neither is it a ‘dispute’ nor ‘sectarian violence’ nor even a… Continue Reading →
by= Prof Prabhakar Sinha No one is malicious and mean enough to believe that Modi has knowingly caused the death of lacs and disease to millions. He has done his best to prevent them but failed. He failed because his… Continue Reading →