Friday, May 17, 2024

Topic: Human rights

Meta: Critics of Facebook say name change can’t hide company’s harm

Tech ethicists and branding professionals on Thursday said consumers should not be hoodwinked by Facebook's name change, which numerous observers compared to earlier efforts by...

Video | Human rights defender Sharib Ali on Muslim persecution in India

Human rights defender, Sharib A Ali, speaks on the deteriorating human rights situation in India, under Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist regime.

Burning houses to burning bodies; Muslims in Sri Lanka are in grave danger

Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority has suffered consistent discrimination, harassment, and violence since 2013 amid surging Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism, reveals Amnesty International's new report.

Amazon, Google workers demand companies sever ties with Israeli military

Roughly 400 Amazon and Google workers on Tuesday condemned their employers for contributing to the surveillance and dispossession of Palestinians by selling cloud services to the...

Priests, activists, and family mourn death of India’s oldest political prisoner Stan Swamy

Jesuit priests, activists, friends, journalists, and family of Father Stan Swamy have organised a condolence meeting for the "people's priest who became the first martyr of BK-16 prisoners" after he succumbed to death following a year-long imprisonment as an under-trial prisoner under the draconian UAPA in the Elgaar Parishad case.