India: Government’s pursuit of new surveillance technology heightens human rights concerns
Responding to a report by the Financial Times that India is searching for alternative spyware technology to replace NSO Group’s Pegasus surveillance software, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of the Security Lab at…
‘Human Rights Issues’ in India: US Report
In an annual report on human rights practices in India, the United States State Department has highlighted challenges to freedom of expression, cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions, extrajudicial…
Saudi Human Rights Commission welcomes UN adoption of draft resolution on tackling religious fanaticism
RIYADH: The Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) welcomed on Thursday a decision from the UN Human Rights Council to adopt a draft resolution proposed by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation…
Human rights body urges El Salvadors to lift year-long suspension of constitutional rights
San Salvador: A regional human rights body implored El Salvador’s government on Thursday to reverse a year-long suspension of constitutional rights that form part of a sweeping anti-gang crackdown enacted last…
Pakistan: Content against minorities in textbooks has increased
A Human Rights Observer 2023 fact sheet reveals that the religious content against minorities has increased in curriculum and textbooks during 2022 and a number of perennial and new challenges…
“Minorities Right to establish and administer educational institutions.. a critique”
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."[1] As starting with this quotation relevance and proximity of education in individual' life can be counted. Indian constitution…
UN disability rights committee publishes findings on Angola, Argentina, Georgia, Peru, Togo and Tunisia
GENEVA (29 March 2023) - The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) today issued its findings on Angola, Argentina, Georgia, Peru, Togo and Tunisia, after reviewing the six…
Volker Türk to Human Rights Council: No Country Can Claim to be Free of Racism and More Needs to be Done to Combat Systemic Racism and Discrimination that Permeate Social Structures, Institutions and Technologies
Council Continues General Debate on Follow-Up to and Implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this afternoon told the…
Human Rights Violations Faced by Tibetans and Uyghurs Raised at UN Side-Event
Geneva: On the sidelines of the ongoing 52nd UN Human Rights Council session, a side event was jointly organised at the UN by the Society for Threatened Peoples, Tibet Bureau-…