Human Rights
Archbishop of Canterbury prostrates at Indian memorial for 379 massacred by British General
"The pain and grief that has transcended the generations since must never be dismissed or denied," Archbishop Justin Welby said.
“We are not the terrorists”: Interview with Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero
"We are currently fighting to quell Wahhabi extremism," Ven.Gnanasara Thero said.
Nasheed says Maldivian police are shadowing him, calls for police reform
There is nothing to stop police officers from overthrowing future governments, Nasheed charged.
Statelessness is a man-made disaster
More than 10 million people in the world are Stateless, and as such, are unsure of their rights, livelihood and future.
JVP must live down its past if it is to win over Lankan Tamils
The consistently anti-Tamil history of the JVP has left such a strong and lingering impression among the Tamil people that it can never be their voice.
Xi and Trump may let Hong Kong democracy stir dissipate itself
Tiananmen Square unlikely to be repeated in Hong Kong as China of 2019 is different from China in 1989 and Xi is not Deng
Enforced disappearances unlikely to end anytime soon
State-backed abductions are tacitly accepted as a necessity on grounds of national security and political stability.
India says there is no bias or injustice in the preparation of the National Register of Citizens
Given the extensive legal remedies, exclusion from the NRC does not make an excluded person instantly “Stateless” or a "Foreigner” within the legal meaning of the term.
Hong Kong imbroglio shows ‘One Country, Two Systems’ doesn’t work
Long years of British rule have made Hong Kong fundamentally different from mainland China making it difficult to have the system as China.
Non-inclusion in Indian citizenship register makes 1.9 million in Assam “stateless”
The final draft of the updated National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam listed 31.1 million as Indian citizens. These were out of 33 million applicants.
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