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Address Discrimination & Hate Crimes India told: CERD, UN

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has sharply criticised the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, and raised concerns about the subjecting of Bengali-speaking Muslims to “systematic and structural racial discrimination”

Hindutva slogans soar in Leicester, has communal hatred been exported overseas?

England’s Leicester once again witnesses shades of Hindutva during a Ram Navami rally where slogans of Jai Sri Ram were heard with loud support for a ‘Hindu Rashtra’.

Bridging Faiths, Uniting Hearts: Innovating Interfaith Dialogue on Campus

An Inspiring Journey with Hindu Muslim Harmony Fellows Sharing Stories of Fostering Peace and Understanding

A Sane Resolution: UN out to Combat Islamophobia

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Top US academics, including Amartya Sen, condemn long incarceration of journalists & activists, erosion of Indian democracy

A group of prominent international scholars, academicians, and writers has sounded the alarm over the prolonged incarceration of critics of the BJP government in India; named in the statement are 75 year-old senior journalist and author, Prabir Purkayastha.

Int’l Day to Combat Islamophobia: UN Chief’s Remarks | United Nations

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, addresses Member States at the UN General Assembly on International Day to Combat Islamophobia.

Busted: Exploring the origins of Australia as ‘Astralaya’ and the potential Indian Yogi influence on Baalbek Temple in Lebanon

Spiritual figures make competing claims about Australian and Lebanese History, both Sadhguru's Isha and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's organisations in the spotlight

US Court upholds Seattle ban on caste-based discrimination; rejecting claims of infringement on “Hindu religious practice”

Seattle’s ban on caste-based discrimination was recently affirmed by a constitutional US court in an order of March 8, giving a huge push forward against caste based discrimination; Court rejected as flimsy the Plaintiff’s arguments of whether the ban against caste discrimination was an “infringement of Hindu religious practice” or :discriminatory” in any way

UN High Commissioner of Human Rights raises concerns about minorities in India, government calls them ‘unwarranted’

In an address to the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Türk, who is the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, raised concerns regarding the escalating ‘constraints on civic freedoms’ in India.

The ‘Food Transition’ Is a War on Food, Farmers and the Public

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Debunking Myths: A Critical Analysis of Hindu American Foundation’s Ram Temple Narrative

It is sad to see the HAF run roughshod over the diversity of Hinduism. In its attempt to prove the homogenous character of Hindus, HAF turned a debate on the nature of the Ayodhya inauguration into Hindus versus others

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Days of Demands, Hours of Protest: Swatantra Bhardwaj finally detained in assault case

Delhi Police detain the influencer hours after CJP, Nishu Azad, Congress representatives and opposition MPs press for his arrest at Parliament Street; the case began at a CJP and wider student protest at Jantar Mantar

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Kishtwar Minor’s Rape Case: Selective societal outrage and price of being Gujjar in Kashmir

Recent rapes, assaults and deaths of women and girls from Kashmir’s Gujjar and Bakarwal communities, repressed in the region’s social order and relegated to servitude raises serious questions of gender and Adivasi (indigenous) persons right to life, dignity and access to equal health care

The Normalisation of Suicide at IITs: Institutional blindness and failure

The recent protest at the Lecture Hall of IIT Delhi where slogans of “Investigation, Compensation, and Resignation”, were raised by the student collective raises the crucial demand for redistributive justice, firstly demanding that the administration to recognise these deaths as the failure of institutions to recognise structural inequities, denials and cruelties.