Human Rights
- Middle East
Iran accuses Western officials of ‘false human rights gestures’
Tehran: The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has condemned officials of some Western countries for making “false human rights gestures” by “dividing terrorism into good and bad”. Nasser Kanaani made the remarks on…
- India
‘Biased and inaccurate’: India slams USCIRF’s latest observations
New Delhi: India on Thursday termed as “biased and inaccurate” the US Commission for International Religious Freedom’s latest observations claiming that religious freedom and related human rights are under threat in the…
- Middle East
West uses human rights as ‘tool’ to pressure others: Iran
Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has criticized Western countries for what he called their use of human rights as a “tool” to exert pressure on other countries. “When human rights…
- World
UN experts call for action on findings of Uyghur abuse in China
Geneva: A collection of human rights officials said the international community must not ignore the systematic abuses allegedly perpetrated against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,…
- World
Sri Lanka to oppose new rights resolution at UNHRC
Colombo: Sri Lanka will oppose a new resolution on its human rights accountability, especially an external investigation mechanism, at the UN Human Rights Council session getting underway this week, Foreign Minister Ali…
- World
China rejects UN report on Uyghur rights abuses in Xinjiang
Beijing: China has denounced a long-delayed U.N. report that was released over its protest and that says the government’s arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western…
- Opinions
Over 81 percent elderly find inflation ‘increasingly painful’
Political protests may be voicing the miserable state of citizens under inflationary pressures but the report of an NGO working for senior citizens is shocking. The Agewell Foundation has come out with…
- Pakistan
Massive protests break out all over POK against inflation, rights issues
Poonch: Massive protests are going on all over Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) against incredibly high inflation and human rights issues, and the Poonch road has been blocked by the protesters. Sixty-five people…
- India
Human rights activists, intellectuals condemn arrest of Teesta, Zubair, others
New Delhi: Ever since the arrest of eminent human rights activist Teesta Setalvad and ex-DGP R.B. Sreekumar, many sections of people are demanding their immediate release. Now, 260 prominent human rights activists,…
- India
India slams UN Human Rights for comments on action against Setalvad
New Delhi: India on Wednesday dismissed as “completely unwarranted” the remarks by the UN Human Rights office over the arrest of social activist Teesta Setalvad and said these comments “constitute an interference”…
- World
Unidentified Tibetan monk self-immolates in protest against religious crackdown by China
Dharamshala: As Tibetans continue to face human rights violations under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s policies, an unidentified Tibetan monk self-immolated in front of a portrait of the exiled leader Dalai Lama here.…