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Clean, healthy and sustainable environment is now a universal human right: UNGA resolution

United Nations, July 29: The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution declaring access to clean, healthy and sustainable environment a universal human right. Adapting a similar resolution from the Human Rights Council in 2021,…

Mexican probe finds 591 migrant sexual abuses by US officials

  Mexico, Aug 6: An investigation published by a Mexican newspaper revealed that 591 migrants were sexually abused in the last six years in the US by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).…

NHRC takes suo motu cognizance of Dalit student’s death, issues notice to Raj govt

  New Delhi, Aug 16: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken a suo motu cognizance of the death of a Class three student, belonging to Scheduled Caste, studying in Sarasvati Vidyalaya in Rajasthan’s…

Jharkhand: ‘BJP leader made tribal domestic help lick urine off floor, hit with iron rod’

The BJP on Tuesday suspended its leader Seema Patra from Jharkhand after she was accused of torturing and confining a 29-year-old tribal woman working at her house. The incident came to light when the victim,…

At least 31 killed in anti-hijab crackdown in Iran, claims rights body

As many as 31 persons have been killed in an Iranian security forces crackdown on protests that erupted over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police. The country has…

16 Dalits tortured for days in Karnataka, pregnant woman loses baby

In a heart-wrenching incident, as many as 16 members of the so-called lower caste were tortured and kept confined for days in a coffee plantation in Karnataka’s Chikkamagaluru district by  Jagadeesha Gowda, a staunch BJP…

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