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Facebook critics call for release of India human rights impact review

Facebook critics called on the world's largest social network to release a human rights impact assessment it commissioned in 2020

Beijing indicts Chinese activists for discussing 'human rights' at meeting

China has indicted twenty or so lawyers and activists who gathered at a rental villa near the Chinese seaside for discussing besieged human rights movement.Chris Buckley, writing in The New York Times said that a weekend get-together in 2019 offered Beijing a chance to deliver a blow to the "rights defence" movement. Now, two key participants face the prospect of years in prison.The two best-known attendees -- Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi -- are awaiting trial on subversion charges related to the gathering, according to indictments.Get-togethers like this, once common among Chinese rights campaigners, have become increasingly risky under Xi Jinping's hard-line rule.Under him, many journals, research organizations and groups that once sustained independent-minded activists in China have been dissolved, said Buckley.As he prepares to extend his era in power, those who still speak out are wondering how China's human rights movement can survive a tightening ring of monitoring, house arrest, .

US sanctions China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, others over human rights issues

The US announced financial sanctions and other restrictions Friday on 15 people and 10 entities in China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh to coincide with International Human Rights Day

Pandemic has fed a frightening rise in inequalities: UN on Human Rights Day

The Covid pandemic has "fed a frightening rise in inequalities", and laid bare "many of our failures to consolidate the advances made", said UN rights chief marking Human Rights Day

Notice to Centre, Nagaland on civilian killings in 'botched up' ops: NHRC

The NHRC on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the Nagaland govt over reports of killing of civilians during an alleged "botched up operation" by the Army Para Commandos

UNHRC calls for humanitarian aid for 3.5 mn Afghans to avoid starvation

UN Human Rights Council has appealed to increase humanitarian support to 3.5 million people including 700,000 from 2021 alone who were displaced due to the conflict in Afghanistan, the UN body said.

US, EU in agreement on rising Chinese assertiveness in Indo-Pac: Sherman

The US and EU are increasingly on the same page in countering China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region.

Taliban executed or 'disappeared' more than 100 military personnel: Report

Taliban forces in Afghanistan have summarily executed or forcibly disappeared more than 100 former police and intelligence officers, Human Rights Watch said in a report

Croatia marks 30th anniversary of fall of Vukovar during 1991-95 war

Tens of thousands of people on Thursday marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar

Joe Biden raises human rights, Xi Jinping warns of Taiwan 'red line'

They discussed North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, global energy markets, trade and competition, climate, military issues, the pandemic and other areas

PM Modi slams Opposition for selective outrage over human rights violations

Modi on Tuesday took a veiled dig at the Opposition

Govt's welfare policies protecting human rights, says HM Amit Shah

The government has been relentlessly working for the welfare of poor, backwards and deprived sections of society, thereby protecting their human rights, Shah said

Covid-19 could nudge minds and societies towards authoritarianism

Examples of authoritarian laws include legal restrictions surrounding LGBT civil liberties or extreme criminal punishment

Right to clean environment breakthrough moment: UN agency head

This right has been rooted in the 1972 Stockholm Declaration

UN rights chief calls for probe into killing of Rohingya activist

Mohibullah, 46, chair of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights (ARSPH), was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Kutupalong camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

As authoritarian regimes rise, child labour problem is getting worse

This is the Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. What can democracies do to make this a reality?

ED raids premises linked to human rights activist Harsh Mander in Delhi

The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at premises linked to human rights activist and retired IAS officer Harsh Mander here in connection with a money laundering investigation

Right to food needs to be looked into with human rights perspective: NHRC

The NHRC hosted a meeting on the issues of food security with its member saying that the right to food, besides being a statutory right also needs to be looked into with a "human rights perspective".

Threat to human rights is highest in police stations: CJI N V Ramana

The threat to human rights is the highest in police stations as custodial torture and other police atrocities still prevail in India and even the privileged are 'not spared third-degree treatment'

Custodial torture by police still prevails, not even privileged spared: CJI

CJI NV Ramana expressed his concerns over increasing cases of custodial torture and police atrocities in country and said that threat to human rights is highest at police stations