External affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi sticks to ‘no comment’ response given a couple of weeks earlier on anti-hijab protests in the country...

Readers write in from Calcutta, Chennai, Nadia, Nainital...

Ravina Shamdasani, UN human rights spokeswoman, said that it had documented intensifying attacks by the army in the past month in Chin state and other areas...

Michelle Bachelet gave no details of the killings in her speech, but urged it to set up a mechanism to closely monitor their actions...

Ambassador highlights humanitarian crisis in country after Taliban takeover at UN Human Rights Council seesion...

The comments, the government’s first reaction to the death of the human rights activist, came in the aftermath of growing criticism from global organisations...

The death of the Jesuit priest and tribal rights activist has drawn sharp criticism from national and international organisations, including the UNHR ...

Prior to the vote, the Indian representative at the UN in Geneva iterated its position on the latest escalation and called for restraint from both sides...

The failure in containing the crisis largely stems from a failure on the part of the government and the human rights institutions in understanding the cause of this crisis...

The resolution, initiated by the UK, was adopted by 22 members voting for it with 13 other countries abstaining and 11, including Pakistan and China, polling against it...