Topic: Human rights
Amnesty warns of global human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends
The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful trends already present, gutting international human rights protections and endangering billions across the planet, Amnesty International...
Human rights violations at the Paris 2024 Olympics must teach us a lesson: UN Experts
A group of independent human rights experts this week called on all countries to draw lessons from the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on how...
Parliamentarians, families of political prisoners join Jantar Mantar protest by 22 student groups on Human Rights Day
Families of political prisoners and parliamentarians joined a protest at Jantar Mantar in the national capital on International Human Rights Day, organized by at least 22 student organizations.
Kashmiri rights defender Khurram Parvez completes 1,000 days behind bars
Kashmiri rights defender Khurram Parvez completes his 1,000 days in prison under draconian charges today.
Chhattisgarh: Adivasi woman fighting extra-judicial killings arrested as ‘Maoist’; UN rapporteur demands release
Just a day before the announcement of the General Election 2024 results, an Adivasi human rights defender, known for leading protests against police and paramilitary abuses on Adivasis in Bastar, was arrested by the BJP-led Chhattisgarh government on accusations of having ties with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist).
UP ATS arrests activist couple for ‘Naxal’ links, 5 years after seizing gadgets
The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested an activist couple for alleged Naxal links based on data extracted from electronic devices seized from them in...
