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Address Discrimination & Hate Crimes India told: CERD, UN

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sharply criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”

Iran: At Least 9 Killed as Protests Spread Over Mahsa Amini’s Death

Protests began as an emotional outpouring over the death of the 22-year-old who was held by Tehran’s morality police for allegedly violating its strictly enforced dress code.

‘Twitter Can’t Protect its Data’: Whistleblower Tells US Congress

Peiter Zatko claimed that Twitter knowingly allowed the Indian government to place its agents on the company payroll, where they had access to highly sensitive data on users.

Bulldozer is a divisive image: Organisers apologise for its inclusion at India Day celebrations in New Jersey

Indian American and Muslim residents had found the inclusion of a bulldozer distasteful and even hateful

Visionary Gorbachev’s noble ideas failed because he ignored the deceit, duplicity and dangers of imperialism

History will remember the great distance between what he sought and what he achieved, and we must learn from this

Journalist Union Slams US Journalist Angad Singh’s Deportation as ‘Vendetta’

Singh’s family has alleged that he was deported because of the documentaries on the Shaheen Bagh protest and videos on the Delta wave he produced for VICE News.

Malayalam writers, artists condemn the attack on Salman Rushdie

We, the undersigned, are deeply saddened and shocked by...

UN calls for release of Saudi woman sentenced to 34 years in prison for tweeting

She was accused of spreading false information and aiding dissidents seeking to disrupt public order

Free Teesta Setalvad: Noam Chomsky, American academics write to Supreme Court

Indian rights groups continue to hold solidarity meetings, demand Setalvad’s immediate release

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Delhi Police detain the influencer hours after CJP, Nishu Azad, Congress representatives and opposition MPs press for his arrest at Parliament Street; the case began at a CJP and wider student protest at Jantar Mantar

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Kishtwar Minor’s Rape Case: Selective societal outrage and price of being Gujjar in Kashmir

Recent rapes, assaults and deaths of women and girls from Kashmir’s Gujjar and Bakarwal communities, repressed in the region’s social order and relegated to servitude raises serious questions of gender and Adivasi (indigenous) persons right to life, dignity and access to equal health care

The Normalisation of Suicide at IITs: Institutional blindness and failure

The recent protest at the Lecture Hall of IIT Delhi where slogans of “Investigation, Compensation, and Resignation”, were raised by the student collective raises the crucial demand for redistributive justice, firstly demanding that the administration to recognise these deaths as the failure of institutions to recognise structural inequities, denials and cruelties.