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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) took suo moto cognisance of a media report about the death of an engineering student in GITAM university, Hyderabad, and issued notices to the DGP and the Government of Telangana. The Commission asked for a detailed report on the matter to be sent within…

Two former coordinators of one of Indonesia’s most prominent human rights organisations have escaped conviction in a defamation case brought by a powerful government minister. While their astonishing acquittal is welcome, the case marked a bleak new low for freedom of expression in one of the world’s largest democracies.

Sheikh Hasina once helped rescue Bangladesh from military rule, but her time in power has seen the mass arrest of her political opponents and human rights sanctions against her security forces.

Anders Behring Breivik slayed 77 people in anti-Islamic bomb and gun rampage in 2011

Australia breached the cultural rights of the Wunna Nyiyaparli people, the United Nations Human Rights Committee says, raising questions about native title.

State Human Rights Commission directs Thiruvananthapuram Collector to investigate leopard sightings near school, submit report in 3 weeks.

Thermo Fisher, an American biotech company, has halted sales of its DNA testing products in Tibet, amid concerns that its products might have assisted the Chinese government in a surveillance campaign in the ethnic region

In the months leading to Bangladesh’s national election on Sunday, thousands of opposition supporters and politicians have been arrested

Without a refugee law, India is an uncertain home for new waves of asylum seekers. Will the 2024 election change that?