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Spurned RS aspirant from Jharkhand asks Advani to retire

Anshuman Mishra wrote a letter to party leader LK Advani asking him to hang his boots and give way t...

Pak: Zardari signs Human Rights Bill into law

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has given his consent to the National Human Rights Commission Ac...

I do not have British citizenship: Rehman Malik

Rehman Malik said even though he is not a British national, he would take all possible steps for Pak...

HRW calls on Pak govt to prosecute Ahmadi massacre suspects

HRW has said Pakistan`s federal and provincial governments should bring to justice those responsible...

Lanka dismisses US human rights report

Sri Lanka dismissed a US report that questioned the human rights record of its police and security f...

China issues report on human rights in US

The Chinese report said violations of civil and political rights have been "severe" in the US.

Sri Lanka: UK envoy`s military comments cause stir

John Rankin said that the UK hopes that the military presence in the North and East of Sri Lanka can...

US criticism over human rights `biased`: China

China has suggested the United States to stop interfering in other nations` internal affairs.

Chen wants China to probe harassment of family

Chen Guangcheng arrived in New York with his wife and two children on Saturday after China let him l...

Human rights deteriorating in China: US

The US State Department also said that Vietnam continued to severely restrict political rights and f...

`Chimps, orangutans have human-like personalities`

Chimpanzees and orangutans have personalities “like people”, a new study has claimed.

Amnesty slams Pak over forced disappearances

Amnesty report said Pakistan failed to prevent sectarian attacks against religious minorities or bri...

`Human rights violated across former Soviet Union`

Human rights violations are still widespread across countries of the former Soviet Union, rights gro...

UNSC `tired, unfit for purpose`: Amnesty

The UN Security Council is suffering from a failure of leadership, human rights organisation Amnesty...

UK to ban human rights abusing leaders

Britain said world leaders who have committed human rights abuses will be banned from entering the c...

China`s paramilitary faces public resentment

China`s "chengguan," the para-police agency tasked with enforcing non-criminal urban administrative ...

UK: 500 body parts kept by cops even after probe

Police departments in Britain retained at least 492 human body parts, including brains, hearts and l...

Chen`s family, friends ``still at risk`` in China

Chen Guangcheng`s nephew has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after he used a kitchen...

Sikh organisations launch campaign for 1984 riot victims

Two Sikh organisations in Punjab have launched an international signature campaign to seek justice f...

Don’t prosecute foreign sex workers: Centre

The Centre has asked all states to initiate deportation proceedings against any foreigner involved i...

Chen lands in US, asks for justice in China

After seven years of prison and house arrest, Chen escaped from his village in April and was given s...

Finally, Chen Guangcheng is out of China: US

The Obama Administration has said it is pleased that the Chinese dissident will be able to pursue a ...

‘B’deshi girls trafficked under honeymoon cover’

70 women and children along the Indo-Bangla borders from human traffickers in the past three months....

China: Chen`s relatives describe brutal torture

Relatives of blind dissident Chen Guangcheng have for the first time told about beatings meted out t...

UN chief urges Myanmar rebels to join peace proces

About 50,000 have been displaced in the violence in Kachin state since June 2011 after the KIO ended...

Chinese activist Chen leaves for US

Chen Guangcheng’s escape from a rural village had set off a diplomatic tussle between Beijing and Wa...

Human-elephant conflict on the rise in Assam

The death of a female elephant undergoing treatment for paralysis in Assam`s Karbi Anglong district ...

Human-elephant conflict on the rise in Assam

The death of a female elephant undergoing treatment for paralysis in Assam`s Karbi Anglong district ...

China: Chen’s passport to be ready in 2 weeks

Blind activist Chen Guangchenghe is unsure whether he would be able to leave China soon after receiv...

Targeted only legitimate military targets in Libya: NATO

NATO has rejected a human right organisation’s report of carrying out ‘unlawful attacks’ that led to...

Maha mulls involving locals to avoid tiger-human conflict in buffer zones

There are about 100 tigers outside the reserves without protection and efforts are on to give owners...

Crows can identify familiar human voices

Crows have the ability to recognise familiar human voices and the calls of familiar birds from other...

Ten Pakistanis deported from Greece

The men, who had illegally crossed into Greece after passing through Iran and Turkey, reached Islama...

Animal hair, feathers may offer clues to restore human fingers and toes

While the concept of regenerative medicine is comparatively new, animals are well known to remake th...

‘Outside media changing N Korean worldview’

North Korea is separated from the more prosperous South Korea by a heavily militarised frontier, and...

European court rejects Qatada’s deportation appeal

The European Court of Human Rights rejected an appeal by radical cleric Abu Qatada against his depor...

Human rights violations rise

Human rights violations have increased in the country by over 13,000 in the last three years, with m...

Babies’ flesh in Chinese-made capsules?

South Korean authorities claimed that they have seized Chinese-made capsules containing powdered rem...

China promises Chen to investigate abuse

Chen Guangcheng fled house arrest in his home town last month for the US embassy and set off a diplo...

Sri Lanka to lodge protest against UNHRC chief

Sri Lanka accuses Navi Pillay of violating her mandate over adoption of a resolution that censured C...

Bahrain arrests top human rights activist

Bahrain has been under turmoil since February 2011 following pro-democracy revolts in Egypt and Tuni...

Chen seeks official help to leave China for US

Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng took refuge in the US embassy in Beijing after escaping hous...

Largest known `true` crocodile identified

A crocodile, which was large enough to swallow humans, once dwelled in East Africa, according to a n...

Hillary meets victims of human trafficking in Kolkata

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton interacted with young women rescued from human traffickers and...

Chinese blind dissident may leave for US soon

New York University has announced fellowship to Chen Guangcheng with residential permit for his fami...

3D hologram to revolutionise video conferencing

The technology developed by Vertegaal and his team is called TeleHuman and looks like something from...

Rights abuses: `129 Army personnel found guilty`

As many as 129 Army personnel, including three dozen officers, were found guilty of human rights vio...

Future of blind dissident Chen remains undecided

The US embassy in Beijing has not yet confirmed if its officials have access to Chen Guangcheng.

Britain’s human rights report ‘partial`: Russia

Reporters Without Borders ranked Russia 142 out of 179 countries in their 2011 Press Freedom Index.

Rights group urges Libya to revoke speech law

The law criminalizes spreading false news or propaganda that endangers the country`s security.

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