Topic: Human rights
Rights experts condemn ‘unrelenting human rights violations’ at Guantánamo
The detention camp, sited within a US naval base on the island, was set up in 2002 to house prisoners captured in Afghanistan, and at its peak housed some 780 people, most of whom were detained without trial.
2021 deadliest year for Palestinians since 2014: Report
A Jerusalem-based human rights group on Tuesday released new statistics revealing that Israeli security forces and armed settlers' violence against Palestinians in the illegally occupied territories escalated in...
Russia closes rights group which built database of Soviet repression’s 2.6 million victims
Russia’s supreme court has ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country’s leading human rights group, in a watershed moment in Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on independent thought.
License to kill granted by weaponising counter-terrorism
Unless we turn to an empathetic and psychological approach for the reintegration of Kashmir and a more reformed outlook at our counter-terrorism strategies, we would be looking at several impotent aggressive measures that lack direct engagement.
COVID fed a frightening rise in inequalities: United Nations on Human Rights Day
Despite significant progress since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 73 years ago, the COVID pandemic has “fed a frightening rise in inequalities”, and laid bare “many of our failures to consolidate the advances made”, said UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet, in a message marking Human Rights Day.
‘What a shame’: NHRC debates if human rights are a ‘stumbling block’
An overwhelming majority of the comments suggest that the NHRC has made a public mockery of its existence and relevance in India by making this issue a matter of debate in the first place.
