The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has called for a comprehensive law to end the ambiguous and ad hoc measures being deployed to deal with refugees and asylum seekers, at a time thousands of ...

The security of the State is of utmost importance. But the rhetoric of securitization can have collateral damage — from Kashmir to Kerala. In a seminar organized by the Army Management Studies B...

  The CBI has registered 51 cases so far in connection with post-poll violence in West Bengal and has charge-sheeted 100 people in 20 cases within four months of the probe, the agency said in a ...

The special investigation team (SIT) constituted by Calcutta High Court, and the CID, which were assigned the task to monitor and investigate cases of post-poll violence and other incidents, filed sep...

Russia’s Memorial Human Rights Centre was ordered to shut by a Moscow court on Wednesday, a day after its sister organisation — Russia’s oldest human rights group — was forced ...

More than 30 people, including women and children, were killed and their bodies burnt in Myanmar's conflict-torn Kayah state on Friday, according to a local resident, media reports and a local hum...

An animated short film on child trafficking will be shown to school students in and around Kolkata, said its makers.  The Hindi film, based on the real-life story of a Bangladeshi girl rescued f...

The US on Friday imposed extensive human rights-related sanctions on dozens of people and entities tied to China, Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh, and added Chinese artificial intelligence company...

President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday said “non-discrimination” was the first condition for absolute respect for human dignity and it should be our collective responsibility to overcome such...

The governor urged the officials to work within the provisions of the Constitution.  Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in a message on Human Rights Day posted on Twitter around the same ...