UNITED NATIONS: The UN-appointed expert on freedom of opinion and expression has called for governments to strengthen efforts to close the “digital divide” and remove all barriers to the right to information. “Without universal and meaningful connectivity for all, the right to information is an empty
GENEVA: Over 88,000 people have crossed into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh and the total could reach 120,000, said a U.N. refugee agency official , a figure matching estimates of the entire population of the breakaway region recaptured by Azerbaijan last week. Kavita Belani, UNHCR representative in Armenia,
MEXICO CITY: United Nations experts called on Mexico to crack down on extortion by police and other officials targeting vulnerable migrants in flagrant violation of their human rights. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also urged the Mexican government to avoid a repeat of the
NEW DELHI: A mentally-challenged young Muslim was brutally beaten to death by a group of Hindu fanatics for allegedly "stealing food from a temple" in India's capital New Delhi. Isar Muhammad was killed after brutal torture for allegedly stealing some prasad (food offerings) and INR20 from
GLASGOW: Amid ongoing diplomatic tensions between Canada and India over the murder of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, an Indian envoy was denied entry to Gurdwara Albert in Glasgow. There has been a ban on Indian officials from visiting Gurdwaras in their official capacity after Canadian
KYIV: Russian forces in Ukraine faced new allegations of war crimes as UN-appointed independent rights experts published the findings of their latest report into Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Members of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine told the UN Human Rights Council
JERUSALEM: Five members of an Arab family were shot dead in their home in Israel, police said on Wednesday, in the latest in a wave of crime-related killings in Israel's Arab communities that has reached a new peak this year. The shooting of the five, including
NAGORONO-KARABAKH: The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh announced Thursday that it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by the end of the year, and Armenian officials said more than half of the population has already fled. That is after Azerbaijan carried out
SEOUL, South Korea: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for an exponential increase in production of nuclear weapons and for his country to play a larger role in a coalition of nations confronting the United States in a “new Cold War,” state media said
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA: A few days after pro-Khalistan leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar's assassination in Canada’s biggest Gurdwara in Surrey British Columbia, another Sikh leader from the same Gurdwara was warned in writing "Duty To Warn" by the Canadian police and the intelligence service of the