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Trial Of Sheikh Hasina Begins In Bangladesh Over Crimes Against Humanity
Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Sunday commenced the trial of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in absentia over crimes against humanity related to the violent suppression of the 2024 student-led protests.
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Court Seeks Centre's Reply On Medical Consent Rights Of Same-Sex Partners
The Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Central government regarding a petition urging the creation of guidelines to legally recognise non-heterosexual partners as medical representatives, authorising them to have mutual medical consent rights.
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Goa Students Paraded In Underwear In '3rd Degree' Competition, Notice Issued
The Goa State Human Rights Commission has issued notice to the vice-chancellor of Goa University over an alleged incident in which male students were paraded in their underwear during a cultural festival at the institution earlier this year.
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Shashi Tharoor's Sanjay Gandhi Flashback Post In New Provocation For Congress
In another move that is likely to widen his rift with the Congress leadership, senior party leader Shashi Tharoor has written an article on the Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975.
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Meghalaya Man Allegedly Tortured By Cops, Forced To Drink Water From Toilet
A 19-year-old man was allegedly tortured in custody and made to drink water from a toilet at Sohra police station in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district, resulting in serious injuries, officials said.
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Rights Body Flags 'Lapses' In Bhopal College Rape, Blackmail Cases
Allegations of drugging, rape, blackmailing and forced religious conversions of students at a private engineering college in Bhopal have raised serious concerns.
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"Took Time To Reflect": Robert Vadra Clarifies Remarks On Pahalgam Attack
Robert Vadra said terrorism in any form was an attack on the soul of humanity and destroyed the fundamental right of humans to live without fear.
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Supreme Court Calls Dubai Court Order Banning Childs Travel "Atrocious"
The Supreme Court has criticised an order of a Dubai court restricting the travel of a minor child in a matrimonial dispute and called it "atrocious" and "violative of human rights".
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Rights Body Team Meets People From Violence-Hit Murshidabad
A team of the National Human Rights Commission arrived in West Bengal's Malda and met people who fled violence-hit areas of Murshidabad district.
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Rights Body Notice To Kerala Officials On Student's Death After NDTV Campaign
The top human rights body of the country has taken note of the NDTV campaign demanding justice for Chaithanya Kumari, who died on Saturday after attempting to take her life in December.
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Probe Agency Raids George Soros' Foundation, Amnesty, Linked NGOs
The Enforcement Directorate has searched offices of George Soros' foundation and non-governmental organisations linked to the OSF, including Amnesty, in what officials said was linked to an ongoing FEMA, or Foreign Exchange Management Act, case.
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"Pakistan In No Position To Lecture Anyone": India At UN
India on Thursday launched a scathing critique of Pakistan at the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), describing the country as a "failed state" that relies on international aid to survive.
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"Turbans Thrown In Dustbin": Sikh Deportee Narrates US Detention Camp Horror
Singh was part of the second batch of 116 Indian immigrants deported back to India in a military aircraft. He describes the detention center as a place where basic human rights were disregarded.
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NHRC Faults Probe of Foxconn Hiring, Orders New Inquiry
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has admonished labor officials for failure to adequately investigate evidence of employment discrimination at Foxconn. An undated NHRC case status document shows Tamil Nadu labor officials told the commission on July 5 that 6.7 percent of the 33,360 women working at the Foxconn plant were married, without...
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Human Rights Body Tells X To Remove AAP's Campaign Video Featuring Children
NHRC member Priyank Kanoongo on Monday directed social media platform 'X' to immediately remove an objectionable video showing the alleged involvement of children in political campaigning by AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal Atishi.
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Trial Of Sheikh Hasina Begins In Bangladesh Over Crimes Against Humanity
Bangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Sunday commenced the trial of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in absentia over crimes against humanity related to the violent suppression of the 2024 student-led protests.
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Court Seeks Centre's Reply On Medical Consent Rights Of Same-Sex Partners
The Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Central government regarding a petition urging the creation of guidelines to legally recognise non-heterosexual partners as medical representatives, authorising them to have mutual medical consent rights.
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Goa Students Paraded In Underwear In '3rd Degree' Competition, Notice Issued
The Goa State Human Rights Commission has issued notice to the vice-chancellor of Goa University over an alleged incident in which male students were paraded in their underwear during a cultural festival at the institution earlier this year.
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Shashi Tharoor's Sanjay Gandhi Flashback Post In New Provocation For Congress
In another move that is likely to widen his rift with the Congress leadership, senior party leader Shashi Tharoor has written an article on the Emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi government in 1975.
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Meghalaya Man Allegedly Tortured By Cops, Forced To Drink Water From Toilet
A 19-year-old man was allegedly tortured in custody and made to drink water from a toilet at Sohra police station in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district, resulting in serious injuries, officials said.
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Rights Body Flags 'Lapses' In Bhopal College Rape, Blackmail Cases
Allegations of drugging, rape, blackmailing and forced religious conversions of students at a private engineering college in Bhopal have raised serious concerns.
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"Took Time To Reflect": Robert Vadra Clarifies Remarks On Pahalgam Attack
Robert Vadra said terrorism in any form was an attack on the soul of humanity and destroyed the fundamental right of humans to live without fear.
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Supreme Court Calls Dubai Court Order Banning Childs Travel "Atrocious"
The Supreme Court has criticised an order of a Dubai court restricting the travel of a minor child in a matrimonial dispute and called it "atrocious" and "violative of human rights".
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Rights Body Team Meets People From Violence-Hit Murshidabad
A team of the National Human Rights Commission arrived in West Bengal's Malda and met people who fled violence-hit areas of Murshidabad district.
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Rights Body Notice To Kerala Officials On Student's Death After NDTV Campaign
The top human rights body of the country has taken note of the NDTV campaign demanding justice for Chaithanya Kumari, who died on Saturday after attempting to take her life in December.
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Probe Agency Raids George Soros' Foundation, Amnesty, Linked NGOs
The Enforcement Directorate has searched offices of George Soros' foundation and non-governmental organisations linked to the OSF, including Amnesty, in what officials said was linked to an ongoing FEMA, or Foreign Exchange Management Act, case.
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"Pakistan In No Position To Lecture Anyone": India At UN
India on Thursday launched a scathing critique of Pakistan at the seventh meeting of the 58th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), describing the country as a "failed state" that relies on international aid to survive.
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"Turbans Thrown In Dustbin": Sikh Deportee Narrates US Detention Camp Horror
Singh was part of the second batch of 116 Indian immigrants deported back to India in a military aircraft. He describes the detention center as a place where basic human rights were disregarded.
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NHRC Faults Probe of Foxconn Hiring, Orders New Inquiry
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has admonished labor officials for failure to adequately investigate evidence of employment discrimination at Foxconn. An undated NHRC case status document shows Tamil Nadu labor officials told the commission on July 5 that 6.7 percent of the 33,360 women working at the Foxconn plant were married, without...
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Human Rights Body Tells X To Remove AAP's Campaign Video Featuring Children
NHRC member Priyank Kanoongo on Monday directed social media platform 'X' to immediately remove an objectionable video showing the alleged involvement of children in political campaigning by AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal Atishi.
