Amarnath yatra curtailed to 39 days under the pressure of Islamists
It is not a new thing that the Pak sponsored Islamist groups and the Hurriyat Conference tie-up always put many hurdles before the Hindu pilgrimage of World famous annual Amarnath…
Jamaat-e-Islami activists vandalise Hindu temples in Bangladesh
New Delhi, February 12: Fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami activists vandalised several Hindu temples in the Hathazari area of Chittagong in Bangladesh on Thursday and Friday, forcing the law enforcement authorities to impose…
Satisfied with displaced Sri Lankan Tamils’ rehabilitation : EU
Colombo, February 17: The European Union (EU) has expressed satisfaction with the resettlement process in Sri Lanka three years after the war between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation…
China detaining Tibetans returning from India, says Human Rights Watch
Beijing, February 17: The Chinese government has detained several hundred Tibetans who returned from India after attending teaching sessions overseen by the Dalai Lama, and is forcing them to undergo…
Sri Lanka: On the edge of the knife
NILANTHA ILANGAMUWA There is always a fallacious belief that, It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible[1]. The morning of Valentine’s Day (February 14) started with…
‘Culpability on part of Bangladesh govt goes well beyond tacit approval of Hindu ethnic cleansing’
In an interview to Pravasi Today, human rights activist DR. RICHARD BENKIN speaks about the state of the Hindu community in Bangladesh and much more What are the basic human…
India’s human rights record in 2011 ‘disappointing’: HRW
New York, January 31: India’s human rights record in 2011 got a thumbs down from a leading global rights group for its “failure” to protect vulnerable communities and rapped the…
Sri Lanka Watch
While the West, UN, Tamil Diaspora and the Human Rights community throughout the world have been trying to book Sri Lanka on the human rights violation during the last days…
A terrifying existence
RICHARD L BENKIN Why this silence on organised anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh? Reports began trickling out of Bangladesh this spring about an anti-Hindu violence in the heart of its capital…
Hindus in Pakistan – Crisis of Existence
Human rights of the ordinary people are grossly abused in every part of the world. The failure of the state governments to deal with violation of human rights is unfortunately…