Breaking News
- Thought Factory
WHEN CLAY BECOMES LIVING POETRY
0 - Festivals
EDEN CREEK BENGAL REVIEWED BRILLIANTLY
0 - Business and Politics
THE LAST LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY
0 - Trending
MAGDALEN OF THE CANADIAN ARCHIPELAGO
0 - Gender
BATTLEGROUND TO BOARDROOM: INNER STRENGTH
0 - AI and Tech
MICRO DRAMAS REDEFINE GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT
0 - Festivals
BEGUM BARVE RETURNS WITH BRILLIANCE
0 - Alternative Entertainment
PINJAR REVIEW: FREEDOM BEYOND THE CAGE
0 - Gender
WOMEN RESHAPE INDIA'S CREATIVE ECONOMY
0 - Powerful People
FILMING MEMORY THROUGH PERSONAL LANDSCAPES
0
Human Rights
Female Cartoonist Who Was Jailed For Depicting Government Ministers As Goats Is Finally Free
“I would rather go to jail than succumb to the regime”: these are the defiant words of Iranian satirical cartoonist Atena Farghadani, who is just the latest in a l...
Read More
Online Freedom Is A 'Human Right' That Must Be Protected, Says UN
The UN has passed a resolution for the "promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the internet".The resolution states the importance of "applying a comprehensive ...
Read More
Putting Their Lives On The Line For Information
More than a month has passed since J Parasmal, a 58-year-old Right to Information (RTI) activist who used the tool to unearth building violations in Sowcarpet, was hacked to d...
Read More
India Abstains At UN Vote On LGBT Independent Expert
India avoided taking a position on the need to end discrimination based on sexual orientation at the Human Rights Council of the UN, as the Supreme Court is yet to “pron...
Read More
UN Makes History On Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
The United Nations Human Rights Council, in a defining vote, adopted a resolution on June 30, 2016, on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual or...
Read More
Where Does Moral Courage Come From?
Readers of Fixes know that our primary mission each week is to highlight strategies that work to effect social change and improve lives. In her column last week, Tina Rosenber...
Read More
Campaigning To Make India’s Roads Safer
Nine years ago, Piyush Tewari was managing operations in India for a Los Angeles-based private equity firm when tragedy struck his family. While returning home from school in ...
Read More
UN Human Rights Council: Using Sport And The Olympic Ideal To Promote Human Rights For All, Including Persons With Disabilities
For more than a decade, Human Rights Watch has documented human rights abuses linked to mega-sporting events, or MSEs, such as the Olympics, football’s World Cup, Formul...
Read More
Living With Energy Poverty
If you can read this, you probably have access to affordable and reliable electricity all day, every day. 1.4 billion people around the world don’t. We need to address t...
Read More
The World Bank Should Champion Human Rights
Much of the evidence supporting the emerging consensus that strong human rights safeguards promote and enhance development has come out of research from the World Bank. Yet th...
Read More