Iran embassy's press counsellor has said that the Taliban should provide an environment conducive to avoiding the migration of people from Afghanistan.
April 10, 2022Taking to Twitter, National in-charge of BJP's Information and Technology department, Amit Malviya said, "Have phones been hacked - NOT SURE. Who ordered the hack - NO IDEA. Where did the list of phone numbers come from - NO ONE KNOWS. Did the investigative story give any evidence to suggest who could be behind it - NO. This, in a nutshell, is the concocted Pegasus hack story."
July 22, 2021The attacks on human rights organizations, activists and human rights defenders are only an extension of the various repressive policies and sustained assault by the government on those who speak truth to power, it said.
September 29, 2020Director of Amnesty International India, Avinash Kumar called the incident 'another example of how the right to dissent is being increasingly criminalised in the country.'
June 5, 2020None of the attacks have been claimed but Washington has repeatedly blamed Iran-backed military factions in Iraq.
January 27, 2020Russia first passed legislation allowing media organisations to be slapped with the label in 2017, after Kremlin-funded RT television was declared a foreign agent in the United States.
December 3, 2019'Over the past year, a pattern of harassment has emerged every time Amnesty India stands up and speaks out against human rights violations in India,' said Amnesty in a statement.
November 15, 2019Amnesty India's offices in Bengaluru were also raided by the ED last year in October over an alleged violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act.
September 6, 2019Anti-government protests have rattled Sudan since Wednesday after the government tripled the price of a loaf of bread.
December 25, 2018Recently, acknowledging the scale of global displacement, the majority of UN member states adopted a global compact for migration. The pact aims to improve global governance on migration-related issues, including promoting legal migration, providing basic services, better integrating new arrivals, tackling human trafficking and coordinating how to send migrants home.
December 18, 2018To ensure a viable democracy, the emphasis should be on a discussion of its essentials, and strengthening of institutions that support democracy, not the party in power. The federated system also places checks and balances on the various levels of government, thereby guarding against an overconcentration of power at the national level. But if the party at the Centre has a brute majority, the federal system becomes a victim.
December 7, 2018We are all, alas, making the same old Middle East mistake: of thinking that the bad guys will get overthrown or punished for their murders and transgressions and that the good guys (whoever they may be) will come out on top.
December 3, 2018It is yet another subtraction from the garland of accolades that were once reserved for the “lodestar of democracy”. That embroidery has frayed over time, to say the least. Amnesty International has eventually sized up Aung San Suu Kyi with Monday’s assertion that Myanmar’s civilian leader “is no longer a symbol of hope”. Hopeless too …
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November 14, 2018It was the latest in a string of awards the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner lost since Myanmar's military drove 720,000 Rohingya out of the Buddhist majority country in what the United Nations has called an act of genocide.
November 13, 2018The human rights body said the government must allocate adequate resources for effective implementation of laws and ensure certainty of justice in all cases
July 9, 2018ARSA terrorists spared eight Hindu women and eight of their children on the condition that the women “convert” to Islam and marry some of the insurgents.
May 23, 2018Last year, 51 death penalties were imposed for murder alone, down from 87 in 2016, the London-based organisation said quoting the National Law University's Centre on Death Penalty.
April 13, 2018