Geneva: A United Nations human rights expert has said that the Indian government is tacitly allowing incitement to violence against Muslims in the country. The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ahmad Shaheed, presented the report to the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council.
Chennai, India : Lower-caste Dalit women in northern India are targeted for rape by upper caste men who usually escape justice as survivors bow to pressure to drop their cases, researchers found on Friday. Only 10% of 40 rape cases involving Dalit women and girls in
Islamabad: Keeping humanity over animosity, Pakistan has come to the rescue of Indian students after their own embassy officials left them stranded following the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict . Neglecting their obligation to ensure the evacuation of their nationals, the officials of the Indian embassy fled for
New Delhi: Rajasthan Congress minister Shanti Kumar Dhariwal triggered a row with his blasé comment about rapes in the state in response to a question in assembly, news agency ANI reported. Dhariwal was, at the time, addressing a sparse assembly because the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party
Kiev: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means the food inflation that’s been plaguing global consumers is now tipping into a full-blown crisis, potentially outstripping even the pandemic’s blow and pushing millions more into hunger. Together, Russia and Ukraine account for a whopping portion of the world’s agricultural
Zahony: After bombs started falling in her hometown of Kharkiv, Annamaria Maslovska left her friends, her toys, and her life in Ukraine and set off on a days-long journey with her mother toward safety in the West. After finally crossing the Hungarian border by train along
Kyiv: A Russian attack severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukraine said Wednesday, and citizens trying to escape shelling on the outskirts of Kyiv streamed toward the capital amid warnings from the West that Moscow’s invasion is about to
Seoul: North Korea will launch a number of reconnaissance satellites in coming years to provide real-time information on military actions by the United States and its allies, state media on Thursday reported leader Kim Jong Un as saying. While inspecting North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration,
United Nations: U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday he thinks rich countries can finally meet their pledge to provide $100 billion annually to help poor nations cope with climate change beginning this year — and will definitely reach that amount in 2023. That would be
New Delhi: Twenty-one Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top constitutional authorities in India expressing their concern about the treatment of human rights defenders in India, saying activists have been “jailed for their peaceful work, targeted