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One Salvadoran goes missing each day under security crackdown, NGOs say

One Salvadoran goes missing each day under security crackdown, NGOs say

Updated on Aug 22, 2024, 5:58 AM IST

UN rights expert barred from entering Afghanistan: Report

Published on Aug 21, 2024, 1:26 AM IST

Raise human rights issue of Bangladesh globally: Akhilesh to Centre

Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav expressed his views in posts on X. (HT file)

Updated on Aug 13, 2024, 5:56 AM IST

Iran executes 29, a day after protester's hanging: rights group

Those executed, who included two Afghan nationals, had been convicted of murder, drug-related and rape charges. (Reuters/File)

Updated on Aug 8, 2024, 12:32 AM IST

Bengaluru man extorts over 20 cops by threatening fake cases, arrested: Report

Ahmed frequently visited police stations to check for detainees and used this information to file cases with the KSHRC. (HT File)

Published on Aug 7, 2024, 4:00 PM IST

Policies will determine the end of AIDS by 2030, reveals UN report

Leaders pledged to reduce annual new infections to below 370, 000 by 2025, but new HIV infections are still more than three times higher than that at 1.3 million in 2023, the report revealed. (REUTERS)

Updated on Jul 23, 2024, 6:54 AM IST

Guest Column| Executive failings fuel judicial outreach

While historical examples showcase the importance of judicial activism in checking executive overreach, contemporary challenges demand proactive reforms in both branches. (Representational photo)

Published on Jul 13, 2024, 5:36 PM IST

NHRC puts advisory for protection of beggars: ‘Decriminalise begging’

NHRC recommends survey and data collection, rehabilitation measures, healthcare, education, legal framework, collaboration with NGOs, awareness and sensitisation.

Published on Jul 5, 2024, 10:08 PM IST

China rejects key Western calls for human-rights reforms at UN meeting

The U.N. review of China is not unique and all countries undergo the process every few years at the council - the only intergovernmental body designed to protect human rights worldwide. (File/Reuters)

Published on Jul 4, 2024, 11:57 PM IST

Dying for love: The shame of modern India

Meena and Tejbir at their wedding on April 22

Published on Jun 30, 2024, 8:20 AM IST

Claim to prohibition is immoral, ahistoric

The truth is deaths caused by the consumption of spurious liquor are double tragedies. (Representational photo)

Published on Jun 30, 2024, 12:00 AM IST

Ukraine refugees treated better than victims of other wars: Council of Europe

There are around 6 million displaced Ukrainians across Europe.

Published on Jun 20, 2024, 12:56 PM IST

Sri Lankan govt rejects Canadian PM Trudeau's 'genocide' claims during LTTE war

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (AP)

Published on May 21, 2024, 8:58 PM IST

Extortion case: Police get four more days to quiz suspended Punjab AIG, scribe

Web journalist Rajinder Singh Taggar has been nominated in two extortion cases already registered against the AIG at the Phase 1 and Phase 8 police stations. (iStock)

Updated on Apr 30, 2024, 9:12 AM IST

Web journalist held for extortion, graft

Two days after the Mohali phase-1 police arrested suspended assistant inspector general (AIG, human rights), Punjab, Malvinder Singh Sidhu in an extortion case registered against him last month, the police on Friday arrested a web journalist for his alleged connivance with the AIG. (Representational image)

Updated on Apr 28, 2024, 8:36 AM IST

Rwanda Bill militates against human rights

TOPSHOT - Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrives to attend a press conference, at the Downing Street Briefing Room, in central London, on April 22, 2024 regarding the Britain and Rwanda treaty to transfer illegal migrants to the African country. Rishi Sunak promised on April 22, 2024 that deportation flights of asylum seekers to Rwanda will begin in "10 to 12 weeks", as the plan entered its final stage in parliament. (Photo by Toby Melville / POOL / AFP)

Published on Apr 26, 2024, 10:06 PM IST

'US, India regularly…': What state dept said on human rights issues

The press conference came after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken released the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. (Screengrab)

Updated on Apr 23, 2024, 10:57 AM IST

Provisions of CAA may violate some Articles of Constitution: US Congress report

Still from the Anti-CAA protests in Delhi

Published on Apr 22, 2024, 12:48 PM IST

Myanmar junta slams UN's 'one-sided' claims on human rights

Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing

Published on Apr 9, 2024, 11:56 PM IST

Law in service of climate battles

The Supreme Court of India. (File photo.)

Published on Apr 9, 2024, 9:55 PM IST

Can Indonesia’s love law ensure domestic harmony?

HT Image

Published on Apr 8, 2024, 1:46 PM IST

India abstains as UN body votes on Israel ‘war crimes’

Georgia, Japan and the Netherlands were among the countries that abstained along with India. (AFP)

Updated on Apr 6, 2024, 6:52 AM IST

Courts must know bail, not jail, has to be the rule

No decision to grant bail to an accused is irrevocable. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/ Representational image)

Published on Apr 2, 2024, 9:17 PM IST

Women are far from achieving gender equality

Gender equality

Published on Mar 26, 2024, 11:14 AM IST

Microsoft is attracting growing criticism for censoring Bing in China

Published on Mar 21, 2024, 12:26 AM IST

China promoting Mandarin in parts of Tibet: Report

The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) is a registered non-profit human rights organisation based in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh (HT File)

Updated on Mar 21, 2024, 5:38 AM IST

Israel's restrictions to Gaza aid may amount to war crime: United Nations

The symbol of the United Nations

Published on Mar 19, 2024, 4:33 PM IST

CAA long overdue, say Indian American groups

HT Image

Updated on Mar 12, 2024, 6:46 AM IST

Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas amount to ‘war crime’: UN human rights

Palestinians leave with their belongings on a vehicle following the Israeli offensive in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Friday, March 8, 2024.

Published on Mar 9, 2024, 9:08 AM IST

India flags 3 ‘reds’ in befitting reply to Pakistan at UN Human Rights Council

First Secretary Anupama Singh exercising India's 'Right to Reply' at 55th UN Human Rights Council.

Published on Feb 29, 2024, 5:53 AM IST

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