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India’s G20 Presidency: Potential thematic areas

By HRDI February 3, 2023Articles, Latest News

Promotion of twenty first century technologies, universal health coverage besides countering possible existential threats to humankind, developing strategies to tackle climate change and protection of environment and ecology could comprise…

UK sanctions Pak ‘ringleader’ of forced Hindu conversions

By HRDI December 14, 2022Articles

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/uk-sanctions-pak-ringleader-of-forced-hindu-conversions/articleshow/96122520.cms

GERMANY: DEATH OF MAHSA AMINI PROTEST IN BERLIN

By HRDI December 9, 2022Articles, Photo Gallery

Protest in Berlin at Pariser Platz on September 23, 2022, over the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini. Many women cut their hair in Berlin as a sign of protest and…

Mahsa Amini protests

By HRDI December 8, 2022Articles

Civil unrest and protests against the government of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and are ongoing as of early December 2022. Amini…

HUMAN RIGHTS: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION

By HRDI December 5, 2022Articles

“All should live together in harmony, supporting one another, like the spokes of the wheel”. — Atharva Veda “There are things we never want to let go. But keep in…

An SC verdict violative of Minority Rights – The recent decision by a two-judge bench takes away autonomy of madrasas in W. Bengal

By HRDI December 2, 2022Articles

Protection of minorities is the hallmark of a civilisation. Lord Acton added another dimension to this when he said: “The most certain test by which we judge whether a country…

Will India Become the Home of the Largest Number of Stateless People? – International pressure to ensure India fully respects the rights of all its people is urgently needed.

By HRDI December 1, 2022Articles

On August 5, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s ruling party, controversially stripped the state of Jammu and Kashmir of its autonomy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu-nationalist BJP…

Women’s Leadership – Women’s Leadership differentiates Iranian opposition from its foe

By HRDI November 30, 2022Articles

With the overthrow of the Shah’s regime in the 1979 revolution in Iran, the people of Iran, especially the Iranian women, sought to enjoy their human rights and freedoms to…

Women have been the main target of the Iranian regime — now they’re leading the revolution to bring it down

By HRDI November 30, 2022Articles

Women have been the main target of the Iranian regime — now they’re leading the revolution to bring it down Brave Iranian women, supported by a generation of young men,…

Institutional Discrimination and Statelessness in India – A report by human rights organisations and professionals in response to the call for submissions by the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

By HRDI November 29, 2022Articles

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Issues/Religion/Submissions/CSOs/11.barak-huma-rights-protection-committee.pdf