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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)”
Pegasus scandal: United Nations call for global ban on sale of spyware
UN experts say it is highly dangerous and irresponsible to allow surveillance technology to function as a “human rights-free zone”
A simmering revolution, stories untold, a military crackdown: Myanmar
Young journalists are staking their lives to report from the underground, hounded doctors are setting up secret clinics, urban guerillas have emerged in cities, and youngsters are moving into border areas to join armed guerilla armies – so why is India and the world so silent on Myanmar under a brutish and nasty Junta?
Islamophobia: Lessons from Canada on how to respond heinous hate crime
Four four members of a Muslim family mowed down by a pickup truck in Ontario, Canada PM called it "a terrorist attack."
UN Tribunal confirms life sentence of “butcher of Bosnia”
Ratko Mladic oversaw execution of over 8000 people in the early 90s in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats, which followed the break up of Yugoslavia
Covid-19: What is in a name? A lot it seems!
Variants of Covid-19, the worst pandemic to hit the world in recent times will soon be named after letters of the Greek alphabet
Israel: Is Benjamin Netanyahu on his way out?
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Canada’s shame: Remains of 215 indigenous children unearthed at former residential school
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau orders flags on all federal buildings be flown at half mast, Kevin Annett’s memorandum details gritly details of torture
Plight of Palestinians in an unequal fight
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Supersizing victimhood: Hindu Right’s appropriation of Islamophobia, the Jewish Holocaust & Indigenous struggles
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