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Faith recast as social justice? Revisiting Shariati’s vision of Islam as liberation

Even as Iran grapples with an existential crisis as a result of the war with US and Israel, there appears little effort among the more aware sections across the...

Covid-19 pandemic has cost one in six young people their jobs: ILO

Those still employed have seen 23 percent reduction in work hours

COVID-19, Necropolitics and The Migrant

After United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson commanded the...

UN raises apprehensions over increase in hate speech and discrimination since adoption of CAA

Also expresses concerns about targeting of Muslims in the country

Who let the virus out: Nation wants to know

India and 61 others, sign resolution seeking inquiry into origin of COVID19 at WHO's annual World Health Assembly

UN raises concerns over exploitative provisions of UAPA

Sites labelling of people as terrorists, reversal of burden of proof, and prolonged pre-trial detention as inconsistent with international Human Rights and legal standards

Arab Solidarity is Welcome, But Indian Muslims Must Remain the Vanguard

There seems to be a new wave of empathy...

Native Americans, Africans struggling in wake of Covid-19

Navajo Nation in the US lacks adequate water-supply and healthcare, while African countries are battling the triple threat of Coronavirus, Malaria and hunger

Human Rights Watch’s research assistant recounts Gaza horror during lockdown

Stuck in Jordan, Amman, she says the current lockdown will open eventually but Gaza’s Palestinians will continue to remain under a man-made lockdown

Science, not Islam, is teaching Muslims how to deal with the coronavirus

Image Courtesy:aljazeera.comReligion, Marx argued was the ‘heart of a...

Covid-19 deaths: Ash to ash, dust to dust

WHO puts and end to the bury vs. cremate controversy as families struggle to find an ideal way to bid adieu to their loved ones

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From Cow Slaughter to “Public Order”: Allahabad High Court’s expanding use of preventive detention

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From FIRs to “Corporate Jihad”: How the TCS Nashik case was transformed from an investigation into a communal narrative

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Telangana: Stop forcible ‘re-location of Chenchu Adivasis from Amrabad Tiger Reserve

Adivasis and supporting activists have petitioned the authorities against what they term as the ‘forcible re-location” of Chenchu (PVTG) Adivasis in the Amravad Tiger Reserve and urged a ‘co-existence’ model of conservation

Victory for Forest Rights: Allahabad HC recognises land claims of Tharu Tribes, strikes down decision of DLC

The Allahabad High Court recently struck down a 2021 decision of the District Level Committee (DLC), Lakhimpur upholding the land rights of the Tharu tribe while observing that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 (FRA, 2006). This law recognises the individual and community rights of Adivasis.