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Police torture isnt the only cause of unlawful custodial death. NCRB statistics show 1,584 deaths in prison in 2015, pointing to a death every six hours. (Representational image)

Torture rampant in J&K detention centres: Report

It claimed that seventy percent of torture victims are civilians and that eleven percent die during or as a result of...

21 May 2019 6:48 AM IST

The state authorities have to intimate the NHRC about existing or proposed mechanisms to the deal with the issue, it said.

Metros

Attack on security personnel should be stopped: NHRC

The Commission believes that such attacks against security personnel on duty should be stopped, which are a grave...

3 May 2019 6:17 AM IST

This law allowed the government the discretion to describe troublesome civil society organisations as political , and thus to prevent their access to foreign funding.

Opinion

Where parties fail, can civil society succeed?

Defending the people and fighting for their rights at the ground level became less and less important.

18 July 2019 1:55 AM IST

Long after her appearances at Woodstock and Live Aid and on an Amnesty International tour, even her lesser-known albums continued to bear testimony to her political engagement.

Opinion

The Arc of Joan who lent her voice to human rights

That landmark moment transformed the trajectory of Joan Baez's life and career. By 1963, she already had four albums to...

11 July 2019 7:03 AM IST

The decision assumes significance in the context of allegations of violation of human rights by the army in conflict zones like Kashmir and the north east. (Photo: Representational)

India

Army to set up Human Rights section

This was approved by Defence Minster Rajnath Singh as part of a number of decisions taken regarding reorganisation of...

21 Aug 2019 3:04 PM IST

Vijay Thakur Singh, Secretary (East) MEA. (Photo: ANI)

India

They cry victim when they are perpetrators: India slams Pak over human...

There was a need to call out those who are misusing the UNHRC for 'malicious political agenda under the garb of human...

11 Sept 2019 8:50 AM IST

$In this Feb. 10, 2020 photo released by Xinhua, Chinese president Xi Jinping gestures near a heart shaped sign and the slogan Race against time, Fight the Virus during an inspection of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Chaoyang District in Beijing. As the rest of the world grapples with a burgeoning virus outbreak, Chinas ruling Communist Party has turned to its propaganda playbook to portray its leader as firmly in charge, leading an army of health workers in a \peoples war\ against the disease. (AP)$ Opinion