More: Human Rights
Learning from the pandemic to better fulfil the right to health
The COVID-19 pandemic has concentrated minds about the resilience of our health care systems and it is challenging member states’ health policies and their...
Ceasefire during COVID-19 pandemic essential, to safeguard 250 million children
The head of the UN children’s fund UNICEF warned on Friday that 250 million children around the world living in the “waking nightmare” of...
Responsibility to Protect and Political Will
The very reason why responsibility to protect fails drastically in many circumstances is that the international community is plagued by the complete lack of...
Covid-19: China Under The Scanner
The COVID-19 pandemic has overtaken the world by deathly awe. With a whopping 1,015,667 confirmed cases, 53,200 deaths and around 204 countries affected as...
UN expert raises alarm over migrant, asylum seeker ‘pushbacks’ at Turkey-Greece border
Greece must take immediate action to end the violence against migrants
and asylum seekers at the border between Turkey and Greece, an independent UN
human rights...
Human Rights in the Context of the Changing Global Order
Thomas Hobbes argued that nature of
conflict is embedded in the natural condition of mankind. On account of
constant fear procured from this nature for the...
UN human rights chief: Racism and xenophobia are ‘contagious killers’ too
The coronavirus outbreak may have forced millions
around the world already into “social distancing”, keeping a metre apart to
prevent its spread, but it will not...
OHCHR’s intervention in Citizenship Amendment Act: An opportunity to expand the Indian human rights discourse
Author’s: Tanaya Thakur and Amit Kumar*
The office of United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has sought permission from the Supreme
Court of India to...
Similarities between Trump-Modi Policies and their Actions
President
Donald Trump calls PM Narendra Modi the father of India; according to him he
has been successful in combining every section of society like a...
With Gaza violence ‘escalating as we speak,’ UN envoy calls for ‘immediate stop’
It is no longer enough to reaffirm past agreements
on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according
to a senior UN envoy, who said on Monday that it is
time to “find our way back to
a mutually agreed mediation framework” to
resume meaningful negotiations towards a two-State
solution.
“While there may be different...