Addressing the Human Rights Day celebration, organised by the National Human Rights Commission, in New Delhi on Wednesday, the President of India, Smt.

The largest and most influential U.S. companies across five high-risk sectors have, by and large, held steady on their core human rights commitments this year—even as we’ve witnessed troubling ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - U.S. officials will consider enforcement of affirmative action policies and state subsidies for abortion as infringements when compiling the State Department’s annual ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. Human rights issues—from equal treatment for ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - When President Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia's crown prince this week over the 2018 killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, he did more than just stir ...

The United Nations leadership has launched a major reform plan to make the cash-strapped world body more efficient and cost-effective. Unfortunately, it has offered little on how this will impact the ...

The US State Department’s annual human rights report was created to give Congress a clear accounting of how other governments treat their people, measured against international human rights law.

In August 2025, the U.S Department of State released its annual "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," which omitted previously reported human rights violations, including "political freedoms, ...

Kathmandu, Nov. 29 -- The pre-session for Nepal's Fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR), held under the United Nations Human Rights Council, has been successfully concluded in Geneva. With the active ...

The US State Department will require its diplomats describe enforcement of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, alleged facilitation of mass migration, and government funding that supports ...

In this Special Report, a heated debate erupts over the 'hegemony of English' versus the Indian Knowledge System. Former Rajya Sabha MP Professor Rakesh Sinha argues that the 'spirit of the mechanism' ...

I still remember a student I taught in Virginia early in my career. He was maybe 13 or 14, and he’d come to this country on a raft. People died on that journey. When he arrived, he couldn’t read in ...