scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicUnited Nations Human Rights Council

Topic: United Nations Human Rights Council

EU human rights report makes no mention of Kashmir, slams China and Russia

EU statement has urged United Nations Human Rights Council to take note of violations across the world, mentioning specific cases in 13 nations.

US has withdrawn from UN Human Rights Council, and Xi and Kim meet again

Xi Jinpng and Kim Jong-un meet a week after Trump-Kim summit and Yemen's Hodeidah airport under attack. 

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.

Thanks to Modi govt’s woolly-headedness, it’s 1993 in Kashmir again

Both countries treat Kashmir as a blood feud, and they will continue the fight till the last Kashmiri.

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.

What happened to Pakistani journalist Zeenat Shahzadi will remain a mystery

Shahzadi who was abducted by gunmen on 19 August, 2015 returns home; Pakistan reports nearly 5,000 cases of ‘disappearance’.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.