Seoul, June 18 : South Korea plans to carry out its first in-depth inquiry into forced labour practices in North Korea through interviews with defectors who have arrived in South Korea over the past f ...
Read moreUnited Nations, June 17 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for equal land rights for women on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. "I urge all gov ...
Read moreBengaluru, June 15 : A Dalit employee in a Bengaluru-based corporatefirm ended his life, alleging harassment at his workplace, after uploading a 7-minute video narrating his woes and urging the auth ...
Read moreNew Delhi, June 15 : The police in China are keeping up their harassment of prominent rights lawyers, putting pressure on recently-evicted Wang Quanzhang and his family, slapping a travel ban on Li He ...
Read moreKochi, June 12 : A woman has moved a habeas corpus plea in the Kerala High Court, alleging that she was forcefully separated from her lesbian partner by the latter's parents and sought the help of the ...
Read moreGeneva, June 13 : On World Day Against Child Labour, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called for action to end child labour. On Monday, the ILO held a high-level panel themed "soc ...
Read moreRamallah, June 13 : Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye has rejected an Israeli plan to divide the Muslim worshipping zone in East Jerusalem between Jews and Muslims. Ishtaye made the re ...
Read moreUnited Nations, June 13 : Almost nine out of 10 men and women worldwide still hold biases against women, according to a new UN report. "Half of people worldwide still believe men make better pol ...
Read moreBulandshahr (UP), June 12 : Four Dalit families have pasted handwritten posters outside their houses in Devrala village of Bulandshahr district claiming that they are being forced to leave the village ...
Read moreKolkata June 11 : Amid reports of violence during nominations for the forthcoming panchayat elections in West Bengal, the National Human Right Commission's (NHRC)Director General, Investigation, Damod ...
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