Tag Archives: Human Rights
India has rejected the UN Human Rights Office’s criticism of mass detentions during protests
The exchange followed Saturday's police action against demonstrators demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation [...]
Oct
Months later in October, he visited Bangladesh and met with Yunus, the Chief Justice, the army
Volker Türk, director of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, [...]
Oct
UN mission flags war crimes in Iran — US strike on Minab school, anti-govt protest crackdown
A recent fact-finding mission initiated by the United Nations has found "reasonable grounds" to suspect [...]
Sep
Post-Maduro Venezuela has kept ‘repressive apparatus’: UN experts
UN investigators reported on Wednesday that Venezuela continues to operate a "repressive apparatus" responsible for [...]
Sep
Violence broke out in the northern Kurdish-majority town of Kobane on Friday, according
Violence broke out in the northern Kurdish-majority town of Kobane on Friday, according to Syrian [...]
Sep
Pakistan panel demands swift justice in gender violence cases — ‘Not charity’
The National Assembly’s special committee on gender mainstreaming has raised serious concerns over the growing [...]
Sep
The most significant change is the removal of Puran Kumar Jha, a 2018-batch IPS officer, from his post
The reshuffle covers officers from the 2010 to 2022 batches and includes postings in Prohibition, [...]
Aug