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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicHuman rights

Topic: human rights

What is the greatest challenge to the future of human rights? We the people are

The thing most likely to stall human rights progress is people around the world simply not considering them to be important

Unlike Trump, Nikki Haley wasn’t a transactionalist but an exceptionalist

There were moments when Haley’s foreign policy differed with Trump’s and even UN’s philosophy. She did not think all countries are equal.

When creativity dies, values of civilisation corrode: CJI Dipak Misra

Full text of M.C. Setalvad Memorial lecture delivered by CJI Misra in New Delhi.

The report on Kashmir by UNHRC had no relation with the UN: V.K. Singh

Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. K. Singh labelled the the report to be an individual one. 

India needs to settle its own house before shutting the door on an interfering UN in Kashmir

The Narendra Modi government hasn’t helped its own case by taking the short-sighted view on Kashmir.

India has a big UN headache, from Rana Ayyub to Kashmir and Thoothukudi

India is worried that UN human rights body meeting in Geneva Monday could push it for an international probe in Kashmir.

Forget the UN report on Kashmir, why is India’s own human rights watchdog sleeping?

The NHRC has rarely made its presence felt. The Modi government has also done its bit to ensure it is not free to function.

Torture, detentions, pellet guns: 13 counts of rights abuse in Kashmir that UN wants probed

UN body indicts India over alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir between July 2016 and April 2018.

UN human rights report on Kashmir ‘fallacious’, violates India’s sovereignty, says govt

The report talks of the killing of Hizbul terrorist Burhan Wani in 2016 that triggered massive protests and the use of pellet guns.

Death penalty is not justice, it is revenge

Even if a rapist is sentenced to death, men will not stop raping. They will only stop when they learn to stop regarding women as sexual objects

On Camera

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.