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  UN human rights chief visits Sri Lanka

  World | August 28, 2013 7:03 IST

  Colombo:  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay Tuesday visited parts of Sri Lanka's northern region which has been battered by 30 years of war between the Tamil Tigers and the military.Among the areas

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  PM's daughter honoured for pioneering work in human rights law

  India | June 23, 2013 16:36 IST

  New York, Jun 23: Prominent legal activist Amrit Singh has been honoured for her groundbreaking work in the field of human rights law, along with a number of other noted Indian-Americans including US Congressman Ami

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  Human Rights Watch asks Lankan govt to probe role of Col. Karuna in LTTE crimes

  World | March 28, 2013 16:19 IST

  New York, Mar 28: Sri Lanka should act on the call by a deputy minister to investigate war crimes by examining his own role in serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.Deputy Minister V. Muralitharan,

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  Germany delinks Modi's image from human rights issues

  World | March 05, 2013 22:35 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 5: Against the backdrop of the European Union ending decade-old boycott of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, Germany today sought to make distinction between human rights issues and image of the BJP

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  Coup plot trial starts in UAE

  World | March 04, 2013 18:35 IST

  Abu Dhabi, Mar 4: Ninety four people went on trial on Monday in the United Arab Emirates on charges of trying to overthrow the government, the latest in a growing crackdown in the Gulf nation

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  Arab Spring gives rise to new challenges

  World | January 31, 2013 18:46 IST

  London, Jan 31: The euphoria of the Arab Spring has given way to the sobering challenge of creating rights-respecting democracies, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.It said in its World Report 2013 that the willingness of

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  Crackdown on internet blogs in Vietnam

  World | September 28, 2012 12:49 IST

  Hanoi, Vietnam, Sep 28: The 7-iron resting against the wall in Le Quoc Quan's office is for self-defense, not sport. The human-rights lawyer and blogger has not left home without the golf club since being

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  Rajapaksa in UK row over human rights

  World | June 06, 2012 21:42 IST

  London, Jun 6: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's scheduled speech today at the Commonwealth Economic Forum was cancelled, amid concerns about possible demonstrations by Tamil groups protesting against human rights violations in his country.Rajapaksa is

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  Tiananmen Square activist tries to surrender to China

  World | May 19, 2012 15:34 IST

  Washington, May 19: A dissident who was one of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing tried abortively to turn himself in to Chinese authorities at their embassy in Washington on

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  Sri Lanka HC grants bail to Fonseka

  World | May 18, 2012 13:16 IST

  Colombo, May 18: Jailed former Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka was today granted bail by the High Court here in a case for harbouring military deserters, ahead of an imminent presidential pardon for him.

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  Rights group wants Narendra Modi to be banned from UK

  India | April 29, 2012 21:30 IST

  London, Apr 29: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi could be among those likely to be affected by new immigration rules under which non-European Union citizens accused of serious human rights abuses may be banned from

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  Naxals Biggest Violators Of Human Rights : Chidambaram

  Politics | November 15, 2011 20:39 IST

  Raipur, Nov 15: Calling Maoists the “biggest violators of human rights”, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today said anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh seemed to be losing momentum though incidents of ultra-Left violence have come down.“Even

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  Human Rights Watch Finds 'Crimes Against Humanity' In Syria

  World | November 11, 2011 13:37 IST

  Beirut , Nov 11 :Syrian forces have tortured and killed civilians in the rebellious province of Homs in an assault that indicates crimes against humanity, and the Arab League should suspend Syria's membership, an international

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  What About Securitymen's Human Rights, Asks SC

  India | November 09, 2011 21:06 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 9: Virtually ticking off those championing the human rights cause of law-breakers, the Supreme Court today wondered why nobody talked about those who die of starvation, farmers' suicide and security men getting

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  Libya Declared Free, But Gadhafi Death Questioned

  World | October 24, 2011 13:00 IST

  Tripoli, Libya, Oct 24: Libya's interim rulers have declared the country liberated after an 8-month civil war, launching the oil-rich nation on what is meant to be a two-year transition to democracy. But they laid

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  West Must Not Lecture Us On Human Rights : Omar

  India | September 28, 2011 7:37 IST

  Srinagar, Sep 28: Apparently irked over the British Parliament's move to discuss alleged rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday  said some of the western countries were indulging in grave

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  India Objects To UK Parliament's Move To Discuss Human Rights In J&K

  India | September 15, 2011 21:57 IST

  New Delhi, Sep 15: Miffed over British parliament's moves to discuss alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, India today said it has taken “due note of the issue” and asserted there were effective

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  Need For Debate On Law Of Sedition: Binayak Sen

  India | April 24, 2011 17:07 IST

  Bhopal, Apr 24 : Human rights activist Binayak Sen, who was convicted for sedition and granted bail by the Supreme Court recently, has underlined the need to have a public debate on contours of the

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  US Should Not Preach India On Human Rights: Modi

  India | March 22, 2011 19:45 IST

  Gandhinagar, Mar 22: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said the US need not preach India on human rights in the wake of its concerns on this issue in his state as reflected in leaked