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Why’s Australian crackdown rattling Indian students? Whopping 25% fake visa applications

This is what happened several months ago. A teenager living in the housing society where I reside was sent to Australia to study at a university in Sydney with...

IAMC releases Human Rights Status Report, raises concerns about HRDs in India

During the webinar, UN special rapporteur said that she has been trying to engage with Indian government but the response has been bleak and disappointing

Arab Spring to the Chilean Revolution

The quest for participative democracy continues

Indian American groups demand justice for Sanjiv Bhatt

The former cop is scheduled for a bail hearing before the Supreme Court on January 22

South Asian activists in Canada burn copies of unjust Indian laws on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday

The members of Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI) came together to reject controversial Indian laws on the night of Friday, January 15

African Countries Mozambique, Nigeria And Niger Have Become A Hotbed Of Islamist Terrorism

West and Southern African countries have become killing fields of ISIS-affiliated terrorist groups and they are getting stronger by the day.

Trade agreements with India should have a human rights clause: British MPs

Several MPs from various parties debated on the persecution of Muslims, Christians and other minority groups in India

Human rights defender Stan Swamy, has been harassed since 2018: OHCR

Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Special Rapporteur on minority issues, write to Indian Govt over Fr Stan Swamy’s prolonged detention 

The People Vs the Mob

What about the claim that institutions can save democracy? As we are becoming gloomily aware in our country, institutions too can be subverted and weakened by such forces.

Vigil for dead farmers held outside Indian Visa and Passport application center in Canada  

South Asian activists came together to remember more than 60 farmers, who have laid down their lives during the ongoing agitation in India on Sunday, January 10 in Surrey.  

100 MPs write to British PM about farmers’ protest in India

Letter initiated by British MP from Slough, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi gets cross-party support

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No to Dalits who are Christian, Muslim, how the AP HC limits its understanding of caste and faith

Relying on a discriminatory relic from the 1950s, the Presidential Order, the AP high court confines its understanding of caste discrimination, exclusion and untouchability to Dalit sections from among Hindus, Sikh or Buddhist; the recent decision thereby validates what has been increasingly viewed as the discriminatory presidential directive

Left Parties Take Out Huge Peace Rally in Kolkata Against War, Terrorism, Communalism

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One woman against a thousand superstitions, Birubala Rabha’s battle against the superstition of ‘Witch-Hunting’

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