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U.S. President Donald Trump signs the visitors’ book as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and First Lady Melania Trump looks on, at Sabarmati Ashram, in Ahmedabad.   | Photo Credit: PTI India

THE latest Supreme Court ruling is a damning indictment of the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) conduct and the ongoing political witch-hunt. The country’s top anti-graft watchdog is accused not only of trampling

Bangladesh authorities have quarantined 29 Rohingya refugees without adequate access to aid on an unstable silt island in the Bay of Bengal, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement

Humankind is going through a new and unprecedented experience with the rapidly spreading Covid-19 pandemic. We still do not know who 'patient zero', the first person to be infected and

Child shipbreaking workers sleep on a metal bed. Rahman Yard in Chittagong. — Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World RAHNUMA forwarded me Laily’s wrenching FaceBook post. Her father is dying, far away in

Amidst the uncertainty and fear that has taken hold globally as the scope and impact of the COVID-19 virus continues to evolve, we cannot lose sight that human rights principles

Photo: BIGSTOCK Kajol, editor of fortnightly newspaper Pakkhokal, worked at the dailies -- Samakal and Bonik Barta -- as a photo journalist Journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol, one of the accused

Pro-democracy protesters from HK Alliance hold placards of detained rights activists as they march towards the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong on February 19, 2020 AFP   UN rights chief

The new year and in fact a new decade have dawned under dark clouds in the region and the world more broadly. The concluding weeks of the last year have

The recent on-going genocide on the Rohingya community comprising a major Muslim population has risen ample of questions on Human Rights Violation. While the uproars are on peak on social