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Tuesday, August 12, 2025
TopicHuman Rights Watch

Topic: Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch reports Ukraine used banned landmines against Russian troops

Since Russia's February 2022 invasion, HRW has published four reports documenting the use by Russian troops of 13 types of anti-personnel mines that killed and injured civilians.

Extreme heat ‘disproportionately’ impacts people with disabilities, says HRW report

The Human Rights Watch, in a report, said that people with disabilities faced risk of death, physical, social, and mental health distress due to extreme heat.

BJP’s ‘abuses’ as bad as Chinese repression, rights body warns investors shifting to India

The Human Rights Watch says countries which deepen ties with Modi govt by ignoring India’s ‘troubling human rights record’, squanders leverage to protect country’s ‘endangered civic space’.

Bengaluru’s road to hol(e)y war & Naatu Naatu, y’all

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Cow vigilantes killed at least 44 people in three years, report finds

Nearly 300 people have been injured in more than 100 attacks by cow vigilantes between May 2015 and December 2018

Modi govt failed to prevent mob attacks, its leaders supported accused: HRW

Rights watchdog accuses Modi government of stifling dissent, red-flags UP encounters and deaths in the Sterlite protests that rocked TN. 

Video of two Pakistani girl students thrashing their harassers goes viral on social media

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Imran Khan hits back at critics who made fun of his ‘poultry plan’, and Human Rights Watch asks Pakistan to not execute mentally challenged prisoners.

Kashmir belongs to Pakistan, Afridi backtracks after row

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Two newspapers served notices for misquoting Chief Justice of Pakistan; Pakistan's Punjab village’s men fought during WW1.

South Africa rejects demand by Kashmir groups to arrest Narendra Modi for ‘war crimes’

PM scheduled to visit the country for BRICS summit; SA’s prosecuting agency says UN report ‘inadequate’ for legal action

Women with disability face higher risk of sexual violence & lower access to justice in India

There is very little understanding of the autonomy and agency of women who live with disability, among the police, doctors and even judges.  

On Camera

Mumbai fashion weeks need a revamp. Not Dharavi & Girgaon

Bless Mr Adani’s kind heart. So glad his view from the private jet will improve by 2032.

How mining, manufacturing & power sectors weighed on India’s industrial output since January 2024

India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.

Can’t restrict ‘extent of induction’—why SC struck down gender quotas in Army’s JAG recruitment

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Army cannot cap the number of women in its Judge Advocate General (JAG) branch...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.