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Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
Films Division, NFAI “repositories of a national treasure”, closure is “means to erase”: John Brittas
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Repeal of AFSPA will strengthen spirit of Constitutional democracy: WGHR
Global Human Rights body issues statement in solidarity with Nagaland shooting victims
AFSPA: A colonial remnant of a law in a 75-year-old democracy
In the words of Justice BP Reddy, AFSPA is a sketchy and bald Act, and needs to be repealed. These words from his report of 2005 need to be resounded for the Parliament to pay heed, to understand that a colonial era law is being used to blatantly take away innocent lives and destroy unsuspecting families
Why did right-wing trolls target 17-year-old daughter of Brig Lidder?
On the funeral day of Brigadier Lidder, who was among those killed in the chopper crash, trolls targeted his daughter Aashna, for being ‘woke’
World Inequality Report paints stark picture of lives of “haves” and “have-nots” in India
While the rich accumulated more and more wealth, the poor grew poorer; women still earn significantly less
Rajasthan: 7 out of 10 Human Rights related Commissions have no members, says PUCL
Only 1 Commission, namely the Child Rights Commission has a full panel of members appointed along with the Chairperson, while the rest lack either full panel or have only a few members appointed
So long as AFSPA protects soldiers from accountability, such atrocities will continue: HRW
Global human rights body demands repeal of draconian law that grants security forces wide range of powers that they often abuse to commit excesses like the killing of 14 civilians in Nagaland
Gen Bipin Rawat, wife and 11 others confirmed dead in chopper crash
The chopper went down shortly after noon, in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri Hills
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat’s chopper crashes
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Nagaland Killings: NHRC takes suo motu cognisance
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Religious Freedom: How the USCIRF continues to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC)
For another year running, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), in its 2026 Annual Report, has in strong recommendations, urged the US government to designate India as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC), “for engaging in and tolerating systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, as defined by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA)”
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