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How FIFA is Asphyxiating the Beautiful Game

FIFA World Cup 2026 reflects global inequality, with restrictive visa rules, high costs, and unequal treatment of Global South teams and fans.

Global Compact for Migration: what is it and why are countries opposing it?

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration...

Palestinicide(s)

While apartheid, military occupation, and even ethnic cleansing, have...

Sexual violence as a weapon of war: why the Nobel Prize for Peace matters

For ordinary women and men, peace is vital –...

Religiosity, Atheism and Nones: Rate of Atheism Being the Same in the USA and Saudi Arabia

As the believers continue to throw mud at each...

Seventy Years of Aspiration: Rights Charters and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

It was a gathering of activists masquerading as deep...

Can the country be implored to rise for the rights for others?

In the 2018 Human Development Index, India has reached...

Is the internet to blame for the rise of authoritarianism?

Three perspectives on whether the internet is having a...

From Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees

Watching the ongoing debate between US liberal and right-wing...

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From unpaid employee dues and stalled budget reforms to controversial depot monetisation and the expansion of the wet-lease model, the strike has reopened fundamental questions about the future of public transport in Mumbai

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Release Kashmiri HRD Khurram Pervez immediately & unconditionally: International HR Fora

In a strong joint statement issued on the occasion of Khurram Parvez’s 49th birthday on June 18, 2026, close to 100 international organisations and an equal number of individuals, including those associated with the United Nations like World Organization against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, Frontline Defenders, Amnesty International, among others, have demanded the immediate and unconditional release of the Kashmiri human rights defender and the relentless campaign of judicial harassment.

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The Rajasthan High Court's landmark judgment on public shaming was ignored within the month it was delivered; what have other High Courts said on this depreciable practice?

Thirty years on, justice remains elusive for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana

A chapter in a major 30-year review of the PoA Act argues that institutional failures, rather than legislative gaps, remain the biggest obstacle to justice

The telegram NEET case and the expansion of platform-level censorship in India

The Court's judgment marks a significant shift in Indian digital rights jurisprudence by accepting that the very design and architecture of a platform may justify extraordinary restrictions affecting millions of lawful users