The Latest Breaking News from NHRC

In advisory, it urges Centre and States to take action

The Commission also asked its director-general to immediately send a team for an on-the-spot investigation

The NHRC has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports that a 25-year-old man was brutally killed in broad public view in Hyderabad

Despite a large number of custodial deaths being recorded in India, the National Human Rights Commission has not recommended prosecution in even one such case between 2016-17 and 2021-22 (up to Feb. 28)

Suhail, a Kashmiri student at AIIMS-Bhubaneswar, has been missing since Feb. 9.

Official versions of the meetings have made no reference to contentious issues

Truck drivers are not recognised as an organised workforce, says Retd Justice Arun Mishra

Guwahati-based rights activist said the contact sport athletes have been denied benefits due to non-recognition

Nearly 2,000 applications cleared in a rare single session by the apex human rights body

Renowned scholar and former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Saneh Chamarik died aged 94 on Saturday. Funeral bathing rites will be held at Wat Thep Sirintharawat on Sunday.

As Covid-19 pandemic restrictions ease and society gradually learns to live with the disease, Thailand is at a point where it must decide whether to usher in a sense of normalcy or continue enforcing regulations -- some of which are aimed at what the government sees as a different kind…