New Delhi, Jan 27 (JEN) At a time when Hyderabad research scholar Rohith Vemula's tragic death has ignited a widespread agitation over alleged caste discrimination, a Dalit student of JNU ha ...

Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, Jan 26 (JEN): In a near unprecedented incident, about 500 women activists, who were trying to enter into a temple forcibly, were stopped en route by some 1000 villag ...

New Delhi, Jan 22 (JEN): A prisoner amnesty in Myanmar on Friday does not go nearly far enough as scores of peaceful activists remain behind bars, Amnesty International said.

New York, Jan 20 (Just earth News/IBNS): United Nations human rights experts on Tuesday welcomed Iran’s weekend release of four Iranian-Americans in an apparent prisoner swap with the Unit ...

New York, Jan 19 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Nearly a decade after the UN Human Rights Committee agreed that a Peruvian woman’s rights were violated for having been denied an abortion – and ...

New York, Jan 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Sharing his thoughts on the direction of the United Nations’ work in 2016,Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said the global community begin ...

Islamabad, Jan 14 (IBNS): The grenade attack on the offices of ARY TV in Islamabad represents yet another strike against freedom of expression in Pakistan, underscoring the growing peril fac ...

New York, Jan 13 (Just Earth News/IBNS): United Nations human rights experts have called for a comprehensive review of the United Kingdom’s draft Investigatory Powers bill, warning that if ...

New York, Jan 12 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Human rights experts from the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Monday called on the United State ...