Human Rights in South Asia
Nine People Protesting Against Copper Smelting Plant Shot Dead In Tamil Nadu
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Nine people were killed as police opened fire on protesters who were protesting, demanding closure of a copper smelt
Read Full ArticleScourging Yemen On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed
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On May 10, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia informed the UN Security Council and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Saudi Air Defenses intercepted two Houthi ballistic missiles launched from inside Yemeni territory targeting densely populated civilian areas in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. No one was killed, but an earlier attack, on March 26, 2018, killed one
Read Full ArticleWitch-hunting with Impunity We are perhaps familiar of people being branded as
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A street play against witch-hunting in a village in West Midnapore- Photo Credit/ Telegraph India “Witch-hunting is
Read Full ArticleAdivasi Women join hands to fight against Alcoholism
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Childrens holding placards on the awareness programme at Beluguri village in Orang of Udalguri of Assam on Sunday. UDALGURI,Assam ,May 21: The Adivasi community of state whose fate remains locked decades after the Britshers left them in tea gardens of state are plagued with innumerous socio-economic hardships. In the ‘labou
Read Full ArticleBlood-Spilling On the Line: ‘The future of India-Pakistan lies in the past.’
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It was yet another dark day for people living on the bloody line dividing Jammu and Kashmir. On Friday, fire-spewing mortar guns that have been thunderously roaring like man eaters for past seventy years devoured ten more human beingsand wounded dozens critically- perhaps disabled for life. Four civilians including a husband and wife and a Border Security Soldier wh
Read Full ArticleDalits under Hindutva as the Hindu social order placed them in the category of outcastes
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Dalits or the untouchables in India, as the Hindu social order placed them in the category of outcastes or people with no caste have taken up Buddhism, Islam and Christianity in the long course of their history
Read Full ArticleThe Indian Muslim Burden When the judges of the highest forum to seek justice
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When the judges of the highest forum to seek justice come out in public to exhort fair treatment and delivery of just
Read Full ArticleIndia is a ‘republic of fear’. The UK must keep the pressure on Modi
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As Indian prime minister Narendra Modi lands in the UK, the details of two horrific rape cases in India have emerged. Huge protests are rocking India and in London angry people of Indian origin are taking to the streets to protest against Modi’s policies.
Read Full ArticleThe India I grew up in has gone. These rapes show a damaged, divided nation
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These articles first appeared in the Guardian
Read Full ArticleMan who accused Indian politician of raping daughter dies in custody
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Alleged victim had attempted to self-immolate in protest against treatment by authorities on day before father died An Indian man
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