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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”

Trolls hound UP village leader stuck in Ukraine for asking GoI for help

Vaishali Yadav, was elected Gram Pradhan last year, and is an MBBS student in Ivano Frankivsk National Medical University

Ukraine invasion: Indian student killed in Kharkiv, right-wing blames the victim!

When questions were asked on government’s lack of response and empathy towards students, the victim blaming began

US Law Firm seeks action against Yogi Adityanath and top UP cops for ‘encounter killings’

The issue was addressed by the Guernica 37 to US and UK governments

Open letter to our secular Muslim friends in India

The defense of victims of one (majority) religious fundamentalist extreme right should not lead to supporting another (be it minority) one.

Afghan citizens under the Taliban rule: Frustration, poverty, and displacement

An Afghan student’s appeal for compassion and international support for the common people

Towards Human Fraternity

The aim of ‘International Day of Human Fraternity’ celebrated on February 4 every year is to tell the world that everyone is free to choose their religious or irreligious belief

Afghanistan: Women, Economy and Taliban

By discrimination on the basis of gender, the Taliban are violating key principles of equality laid down in Islam

Why is the desi right wing embarrassing India by trolling the Canadian PM?

Justin Trudeau says, “Canada is not intimidated by ‘disgusting’ truckers' protest”, but Indian troll continue to mock

Twitter vs Hate Speech battle now in France, court issues strict directions 

Twitter has showed no initiative to comply with these directions seeking details on hate speech measures

Fr Stan Swamy, Khurram Parvez, Siddique Kappan on USCIRF’s Freedom of Religion or Belief victims list

United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has listed 1309 victims from across the world on this FoRB victims list

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

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The Normalisation of Suicide at IITs: Institutional blindness and failure

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