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UN Rights Experts flag Discrimination in ECI’s SIR exercise, seek India’s response
Three United Nations’ Special Rapporteurs have formally written to the Indian government on expressing serious concerns over alleged discrimination against the minorities in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) conducted by the ECI –especially in West Bengal –and seeking information on steps taken to ensure that the process aligns with India’s obligations under international human rights law
Jafar Panahi, Jailed Iran filmmaker on hunger strike
Jafar Panahi, a renowned Iranian filmmaker imprisoned for the past 6 months, has announced a hunger strike to protest his ongoing detention, as reported by his wife Tahereh Saeidi on her Instagram page.
‘Vice’ Journalist Angad Singh Blacklisted, Showed India in ‘Negative Manner’: Centre to Delhi HC
According to the Union government, Singh's documentary, 'India Burning', portrayed India in a "negative manner". He was deported from Delhi to New York in August last year.
Ban caste discrimination: Ambedkar Intl Center to Seattle City Council
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The AIC has worked closely with council member Kshama Sawant, the Coalition of Seattle Indian-Americans (CSAI), Equality Labs, and the Ambedkar Association of North America (AANA) to help draft this proposed ordinance.
Should Respect for ‘an Islam’ Supersede Academic Freedom?
A professor in the US gets fired for showing a Muhammad painting
“Hindu scriptures offer no moral teachings,” says Bangladeshi hardliner
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Hardliners in Bangladesh have been making such disparaging comments in abid to unseat the government in next election
“Pour petrol on his house, not water”: Pakistani mullah incites death on Ahmadi Muslims
In another major escalation of anti-Ahmadiyya sentiment in Pakistan, a radical religious cleric "Syed Mohammad Sibtian Shah Naqvi of Sarghoda", with a significant social media following, has called for a total boycott of Ahmadi Muslims.
Uneven yet Eloquent: PEN America’s anguished cries on India at 75
Over a 100 Indian and diasporic writers wrote, or gave statements about the suppression of dissent (among other things) in India at 75
IMSD condemns the Taliban’s shutting of university gates to Muslim women
IMSD unequivocally condemns the blatantly misogynist decree of Taliban...
Free Speech or Hate Speak?
Human rights organisations pick and choose whose freedom of speech – and other human rights – they are going to defend
Shakira spotlights Iran’s footballer Amir Nasr who faces death penalty
The 26-year-old Iranian football player Amir Nasr-Azadani is facing the threat of execution
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Gender and Sexuality
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India
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Communalism
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Education
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