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The Taliban Tried To Stop Lida Mangal From Employing Afghan Women

The Taliban Tried To Stop Lida Mangal From Employing Afghan Women 'I Wish I Weren’t A Girl': 700,000 Women Struggle For Menstrual Hygiene In War-Torn Gaza TikTok Murder...

What caused the Anti-Muslim Riots in Sri Lanka

The recent anti-Muslim riots in Kandy, Sri Lanka, once...

The denial of linguistic diversity in Bangladesh

How the system fails to recognize linguistic diversity in...

Paradise in Tears: Sinhalese-Muslim Ethnic Tension in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankans were looked for a change with sanguine...

View from Bangladesh: Don’t get blinded by anti-India hysteria

Integration, not isolation, is the solutionLook to cooperation with...

Women in Bangladesh parliament: Impressive only in number

In the current parliament, there are a total of...

Sri Lanka Declares Emergency After Communal Riots

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Bangladesh: The attack on Zafar Iqbal is symbolic of a larger danger

The attack on Zafar Iqbal is symbolic of a...

Suu Kyi has sold her soul to the devil: Shirin Ebadi

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In 2025, between January and June alone, CJP recorded 113 incidents of caste atrocities on Dalit individuals across different states in India worst offending states were Uttar Pradesh (34 cases), Madhya Pradesh (15), and Tamil Nadu (8) while 962 reported land conflicts affect tribal populaces; of these 116 conflicts are in the Conservatory and Forestry sector, with 459,735 people currently affected.

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A 29-year-old temple guard was tortured to death in custody over a flimsy theft allegation with his body bearing 44 injuries, his last hours recorded on video. As Tamil Nadu reels, data shows a damning pattern: custodial deaths rise, convictions remain zero

Justice Deferred: J&K High Court stays repatriation of 63-year-old woman deported after Pahalgam attack, following MHA appeal

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How the Delhi riots case remains stagnant with close to a dozen student leaders incarcerated

A look back at the trajectory of the Delhi Riots case(s), especially the infamous and belatedly registered FIR 59/2020 reveals a litany of procedural and substantive failures, together resulting in the incarceration without bail, for five long years, ten student activists and human rights defenders and one more politician as “accused”