A decade ago, New Delhi-based non-profit organization Aman Trust applied to the ministry of home affairs for a licence under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) after foreign donors approached the trust with financial aid. Among them were the Ford Foundation, The Hunger Project and the Tides Foundation. Over the years, however, the non-profit that…
Bangladesh must ramp up efforts to tackle its “epidemic” of child marriage — a problem fuelled by the country’s repeated natural disasters, rights campaigners said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) also called on the government to ditch a proposal to lower the legal marriage age for girls from 18 to 16, which it said…
The Bangladesh government is yet to take sufficient steps to end child marriage, in spite of promises to do so, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released on Monday. Instead, it steps in the wrong direction. After her July 2014 pledge to end child marriage by 2041, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attempted…
Occupying nations have to fulfill the international obligations and respect the human rights, this was stated by Silvio Gonzato Director, Human Rights and Democracy, European External Action Service (EEAS) responding the question, about the massive abuses of rights by Indian forces in occupied Kashmir, raised by Abdul Latif Bhat, Director Kashmir.Foundation, who participated in an…
The Centre for Organisation Research & Education (CORE) Manipur has expressed deep concern over the reported ‘encounter’ that took place at Henjang village in Senapati district on May 23 wherein three persons were killed. The Kuki Inpi-Saikul Gamkai had alleged that the reported encounter was fake, while the Assam Rifles had made a counter-claim that…
Nine people died, one of them decapitated, in a prison mutiny in Brazil which ended Monday with the release of 70 hostages, police said. “After 18 hours of negotiations, the mutiny has ended,” a police spokesman told AFP from the facility at Feira de Santana, 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the northeastern city of Salvador…
The State Human Rights Commission has handed over to the higher education secretary the application seeking same moderation mark for the Set exam (general category) conducted on February 2. The commission has also asked the government to consider it. The government announced two per cent moderation mark for the general category on the suggestion of…
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi abandoned at sea had nowhere to turn Thursday as Malaysia turned away a boat crammed with more than 500 migrants, saying it could not afford to keep being nice. Indonesia and Thailand also appeared unwilling to provide refuge to men, women and children, despite appeals by the U.N. High…
Beyond the visible causes for September 2014 deluge in valley, lie the subtle reasons rooted in the network of occupation. The recently released document by Coalition of Civil Society (CCS), entitled ‘Occupational Hazards’ has brought to fore the uncounted repercussions of militarization of Kashmir. In conversation with Saima Bhat, the researchers behind the report, have…
What do Mahatma Gandhi and competitive boxers have in common? They’ve both been powerful advocates for human rights, a group of fighters and advocates said Sunday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. A Romani-German boxer the Nazis discriminated against bleached his hair blond and covered his body with flour to mock the regime’s vision…