"human-rights"

Afghan women and girls, like men, have inalienable rights -- human rights that must be upheld and honored, said UNGA President Dennis Francis

India in the past has said that the Indian authorities at all levels, including the judiciary, are seized of the situation in Manipur and are taking steps to maintain peace and harmony and law and order.

Amid pressure by international groups, opposition parties and Sri Lanka's powerful legal fraternity, the government had temporarily postponed the proposed law promising it to be revised later this month or in May

India experienced significant human rights issues in 2022, including unlawful and arbitrary killings, a US report claimed

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, may not be ideal but is a step towards protection of personal data

Youngsters and some business owners who oppose the law say that it curtails human rights and is bad for the tourism business.

Elon Musk has axed entire departments at Twitter in his exercise to deeply trim its workforce by half and human rights, accessibility, AI ethics and curation and communications teams were hit the hardest.

Islamabad: Pakistan became one of the most dangerous human rights abusers in the world during the rule of Imran Khan, a local media reported. After General Pervez Musharraf, Imran Khan was one of the notorious human rights abusers, who tried to suppress the media house, human rights groups, and social media activists with the help […]

Hyderabad: Delhi Public School, Nacharam celebrated International Human Rights Day on December 10 to honour the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A special assembly was conducted by students of grade XI to raise awareness about human rights. A peek into the importance […]

Hyderabad: Today human rights pervade national and international spheres. Human rights, right that belong to an individual simply for being Human Being. In modern times the word Human Right came into existence after the end of world war-II, formation of United Nations Organization and adoption of Human rights Charter on December 10, 1948. But for […]

By David R Boyd Industrially produced food appears to be cheap but is actually very expensive. Recent estimates of the hidden costs of today’s food systems range from US$12 trillion to US$20 trillion annually. These mind-boggling figures include food’s devastating environmental and human rights impacts and poor health caused by unhealthy diets.To put these costs […]

In addition, they say, Taliban commanders have demanded that communities must hand over unmarried women to become "wives" for their fighters a form of sexual violence, human-rights groups say, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Talks with the Taliban will mean that India has begun to distinguish between good and bad terrorists

State Human Rights Commission chief Justice Gunda Chandraiah convened a review meeting with authorities of RIMS-Adilabad and the district jail

Washington: American singer and songwriter Madonna can be counted among Britney Spears’s supporters in her battle to free herself from conservatorship. According to Deadline, the pop artiste recently spoke out on her Instagram Story to end the hold Spears’s father has on her life and career. The two artistes go way back, having collaborated on […]

Swamy, who was arrested last year under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in connection with the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died at a Mumbai hospital on Monday.

The actress has been actively participating in the nationwide movement #KeepGirlsInSchool campaign by Whisper, in collaboration with UNESCO.

In a strongly-worded letter, the human rights NGO said that Google is "incentivised to merge and aggregate data across its different platforms" as a consequence of its surveillance-based business model.

The timing of the deals, long considered taboo without the blessing of the Palestinians, was seen as an attempt to provide Trump with a foreign policy win ahead of the vote.

Canada's ambassador to China obtained "virtual consular access" to Spavor and Kovrig over the weekend, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said Saturday.