The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government increasingly harassed, arrested, and prosecuted rights defenders, activists, journalists, students, academics, and others critical of the government or its policies. The government continued to impose harsh and discriminatory restrictions on Muslim-majority areas in Jammu and Kashmir since revoking the state’s
Singapore: Indian university caught selling 36,000 fake degrees has graduates working in Singapore Earlier this month Times of India reported that during a routine investigation of a fake degree case, the Indian police had uncovered a much bigger case of an Indian university selling tens of
Belarus: The Belarusian authorities visibly stepped up their crackdown against civil society organizations and independent media with mass raids and interrogations of leading human rights defenders, journalists and trade union leaders. Responding to the escalating reprisals against dissenters, Aisha Jung, Amnesty International’s Senior Campaigner on
New York: At the United Nations, Pakistan has opposed the addition of new permanent members to the UN Security Council saying it will compound the Council’s inequality and dysfunctionality. Addressing a meeting of Inter-Governmental Negotiations Framework, Pakistan s permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Munir
New Zealand will withdraw its Defence Force from Afghanistan by May 2021, ending a 20-year involvement in a conflict in which 10 New Zealand lives were lost, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced. The deployment at present comprises only six New Zealand Defence Force personnel –
New York: A Chinese envoy to the United Nations (UN) asked UN peacekeeping operations to help host countries fight COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic and existing threats, such as regional hot-spot issues, ethnic conflicts and terrorism, affect and exacerbate each other, bringing new impacts to international peace
New York: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is recommending an increase of nearly 3,700 military and police to bolster the U.N. peacekeeping force in the Central African Republic, saying the conflict-torn country is at “a critical juncture.” The U.N. chief said in a report obtained Tuesday by The
Yangon: Concerns are growing over the potential for violence in Myanmar as anti-coup protesters urge supporters to take to the streets en masse, in defiance of the military generals who have deployed troops in major cities. Protests and civil disobedience movements against the military coup on
By Sajjad Shaukat In the cyber-age, online information has converted our planet into a global village. By bringing the political battles into our bedrooms, social media has made it much difficult for politicians to speak lies and to hide information. In this respect, the EU DisinfoLab continues
Islamabad: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter of All Parties Hurriyat Conference staged a protest outside the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, today, on the occasion of the visit of European diplomats to Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The Hurriyat leaders in their speeches on