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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

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Whitlock exposes the Secret History of the War in Afghanistan

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Vigil held in memory of Gauri Lankesh in Canada  

Members of the South Asian community came together to remember the slain Indian journalist at Surrey’s Holland Park on Sunday, September 5

Gujarat: Harvard-UCB study reports 16,000 excess deaths during Covid pandemic!

Researchers say that official methods of recording mortality like death certificates cannot work as efficient indicators, due to a improper record keeping and a weak healthcare system

Women who dared to raise their voices are vulnerable, yet they rise

Brave Afghan women continue to demand equal rights vis a vis education and employment, even as Taliban shows its old face again

Amnesty for Afghans: Can the world walk the talk?

It is one thing to express solidarity, but quite another to actually offer refuge; the least that departing world powers can do, is offer amnesty to Afghans desperate to flee a totalitarian regime

Journalists are targeted by all hardliner regimes, this time in Afghanistan

International media groups and organisations are asking governments to come together and make an “Emergency Plan for Afghan Journalism”

Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation

Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.

We want our rights: Afghan women protesters

Group of brave women, held up placards in protest in Kabul, as Taliban gunmen kept an an eye on them

Afghanistan Crisis: What is India’s plan of action?

There are over 200 Indian citizens who are reportedly stuck in Afghanistan;Taliban has reportedly “assured” Hindus and Sikhs of safety

Afghan crisis: Women, activists demand immediate ceasefire, protection for civilians

1,200 activists and women from Afghanistan and Iran pen an open letter asking the international community to intervene as the future of women in Afghanistan is threatened once again

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