Human Rights

Kerala HC backs couple expelled by Thiruvananthapuram college for marrying against family's wishes

Malavika Babu, 20, and her husband Vyshak, BBA students from CHMM College for Advanced Studies, had eloped after their parents objected to their marriage.

Jul 22, 2018

New report sheds light on Myanmar child rights violation

Legal experts have found that Myanmar's military campaign against the Rohingya has left millions of children suffering from violence, abuse, neglect, sexual and other exploitation, violating the 1991 UN Accord on Child Rights.

Jul 22, 2018

Bihar govt hikes relief for rape and acid attack survivors to Rs 7 lakh

Bihar has witnessed a sharp rise in crime against women in the last seven years. Even after rolling several restrictive measures, the state has failed to arrest the steep rise in the number.

Jul 20, 2018

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj

Crime against minorities in neighbouring countries a concern for India: Sushma Swaraj

The External Affairs minister made the statement in Rajya Sabha after highlighting the fact that the population of Hindus in Bangladesh had increased from 8.4 percent in 2011 to 10.7 percent in 2017.

Jul 20, 2018

Why is China trying to eradicate Islam? Re-education with pork and liquor; call to prayer denied

Communist China's crackdown on Muslims extends from Xinjiang to other parts. The Hui Muslims in Linxia, the 'Chinese Mecca', are the latest victims of the cultural cleansing.

Jul 16, 2018

Human rights groups challenge China; ask UN to interfere in Qin Yongmi case

The activist was found guilty of subversion of state power and handed a 13-year prison sentence. Human Rights Watch has asked the UN to intervene to ensure that Yongmin is treated fairly.

Jul 13, 2018

US convict's execution blocked by drug company

Alvogen filed a case asking Nevada not to execute a prisoner on death row. saying it did not want its drug Midazolam to be used. The company claims the drug was obtained illegally.

Jul 12, 2018

Sensational revelation of Pakistan's role behind anti-India UN Report on Kashmir

A Pakistani Islamist, based in Canada has admitted that the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, was in constant touch with him while preparing the Human Rights report on Kashmir.

Jul 10, 2018

Reuters journalist Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo

Reuters journalists who reported on Rohingya massacre to face trial in Myanmar

A court in Myanmar on Monday charged two jailed Reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents, moving the landmark press freedom case into its trial stage after six months of preliminary hearings.

Jul 10, 2018

A sign on an insurance store advertises Obamacare in San Ysidro, San Diego, California,

Trump administration halts billions in insurance payments under Obamacare

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which administers programs under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), said the action affects $10.4 billion in risk adjustment payments.

Jul 8, 2018

Woman Scales Statue Of Liberty On Fourth Of July

Saying it aloft? Woman climbs Statue of Liberty to protest ICE family separations

A woman scaled the statue of liberty of July 4 as the whole country continues to protest Donald Trump's 'Zero Tolerance' policy.

Jul 5, 2018

Thousands come together in the United States demanding reunification of migrant families

It was a Saturday of protests as thousands of people in dozens of cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, Denver, Miami, St. Louis, San Francisco and Los Angeles, took to the streets in protest against the Trump administration.

Jul 1, 2018

US immigration row: Ordeal of Indian woman separated from her 5-year-old differently-abled son

Bhavan Patel, a 33-year-old Indian, is seeking asylum in the US after fleeing political persecution in Ahmedabad. She is said to have travelled to Greece and then Mexico after which she was trying to cross over to the US with her five-year-old son when she was detained by the ICE.

Jun 30, 2018

Reunite migrant families separated at borders: US federal judge to Trump admin

A federal judge in San Diego has ordered children to be reunited with their parents within 30 days. The government earlier announced it would scrap the zero-tolerance policy but had not specified what would happen to the families separated prior to the decision.

Jun 27, 2018

India lambasts Pakistan at UN, tears into its 'empty rhetoric' on Kashmir

India's response comes after Pakistan UN Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, during the UN General Assembly debate, claimed that people in Kashmir were victims of egregious crimes.

Jun 26, 2018

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