human rights

April 20, 2024

Displaced from Bangladesh: Buddhist, Hindu groups without citizenship in Arunachal

By Sharma Lohit Buddhist Chakma and Hindu Hajongs were settled in the 1960s in parts of Changlang and Papum...

February 20, 2024

UN dismay at reported human rights violations of Palestinian women

GENEVA (19 February 2024) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which...

October 28, 2023

Pak told to halt Afghan deportations to avoid human rights catastrophe

Pakistan’s plan to deport “undocumented” foreign nationals will disproportionately affect more than 1.4 million Afghans in the country, the UN...

May 1, 2023

ONGC, SBI ‘stakeholders’ in Myanmar-China pipelines

Some banks are comfortable financing atrocities, as is clear with the financiers that are bankrolling the fossil fuel giants that...

February 2, 2023

Two years after coup, Myanmar faces unimaginable regression: UN

GENEVA (27 January 2023) – Two years after the Myanmar military launched a coup against the democratically-elected government, the...

January 20, 2023

US softens on B’desh ‘rights violations’, fearing China, India clout

In December 2021, in addition to the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), the United States imposed sanctions on seven former and...

December 10, 2022

Dalit body among nine NGOs granted consultative status by the UN

MELBOURNE,10 December,2022: On 7 Dec., a majority of UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Member States voted to grant consultative...

September 13, 2022

50m people worldwide in modern slavery; migrants vulnerable

Latest estimates show that forced labour and forced marriage have increased significantly in the last five years, according to the...

August 31, 2022

Enforced disappearances in Pakistan raises questions of secret services

More questions than answers have been raised about the authorities over their reaction to the disappearances. The ex-Chairperson of the...

August 11, 2022

“No One Cares About Our Protests”

A sit-in by families of missing persons in Balochistan has entered its third week of protest outside the Governor’s House...