MELBOURNE, 23 December, 2024: Syria has been hitting the news headlines since the fall from power of the 50 +...
June 3, 2024
Report finds ‘clear need’ for an Australian Human Rights Act. What difference would it make?
This week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights reported on its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. By majority, it recommended...
May 12, 2024
HRCP’s annual report marks 2023 as a year of economic hardships
ISLAMABAD May 8, 2024 : The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, released its annual...
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...
