Bigotry threatens India’s Constitution

To defend India, we must protect the idea of India as Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, and BR Ambedkar envisioned it, writes  Read More

The Manipur Man: Bijoykumar Tayenjam

Bijoykumar Tayenjam is an author, a poet and a civil engineer in Imphal, Manipur, writes Vinta Nanda

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Thousands march in support of women’s rights in Jakarta

On Saturday, the 27th April, thousands of people marched from Jalan Sudirman road to the National Monument (Monas) in Jakarta - for the 2019 Wo...

Amartya Sen: “Many institutions in the Country are under attack and their freedom encroached.”

The 85-year-old economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen came out in support of actor Naseeruddin Shah on Sunday, after he was involved in a...

Human Rights News Stories from 2018

From discrimination of LGBT to drugs – human rights issues and stories have never grown old. Every day, we hear issues related to human r...

Commemorating 70 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December – the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Decla...

World Report 2018: A Call to Action more essential than A Cry of Despair

The Human Rights Watch publishes an annual World Report in which the human rights records of more than ninety c...

Activists: Tokyo's Sustainable Olympics Is Being Built With Wood From Rainforest's

The 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics could be using illegally logged tropical wood from indigenous Malaysians’ land to build a billion-dollar wooden sports stadium, human r...

Harvey Milk Group To Honor Bollywood Star, Human Rights Activists Celina Jaitly

Bollywood star Celina Jaitly, who speaks out on behalf of LGBT people in India and worldwide, will be honored Friday night by the Harvey Milk Foundation at the second Diver...