Indian institute of human rights

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has launched a Global Alliance for Human Rights, a broad coalition aimed at placing the issue at the heart of decision-making, when conflict levels have reached a record high amid deepening inequality and accelerating climate change.

Hundreds of Kashmiri diaspora members and human rights activists staged coordinated protests outside Pakistani diplomatic missions across the UK, condemning Pakistan's alleged military crackdown, civilian casualties, mass arrests and internet blackout amid escalating unrest in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir

The European Union is facing renewed criticism for continuing to grant Pakistan trade benefits despite persistent concerns over human rights violations, particularly against religious minorities. Critics argue that Pakistan has failed to make meaningful progress in meeting international human rights commitments since receiving the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status in 2014.Brussels-based rights group Human Rights Without Frontiers has described the arrangement as a “bad deal,” urging the EU to suspend GSP+ benefits until substantial human rights improvements are achieved.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told Pakistan that access to the lucrative European market cannot continue without reforms in human rights, governance, media freedom and civil liberties. The European Union raised concerns over enforced disappearances, minority rights, judicial independence and censorship. With Pakistan heavily dependent on the EU's GSP+ trade scheme, Brussels made it clear that economic benefits come with conditions.

The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that the right to strike is protected under a core International Labour Organization (ILO) convention, in a landmark advisory opinion settling a long-running dispute between workers and employers worldwide.

A detailed report by the United Nations Human Rights Committee has raised serious concerns over the spread of religious intolerance, forced kidnappings and conversion of Hindu and Christian minority girls, curbs on media and freedom of expression in Pakistan.

More than 110 Nobel laureates have called for the immediate and unconditional release of Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Iranian human rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate, after she was transferred to hospital amid concerns over her rapidly deteriorating health.

Employed or Unemployed every human being is worthy of dignity,I hope the Chief Justice of India Mr Surya Kant reflects on this basic premise and introspects whether he was right in calling certain sections of youngsters as jobless cockroaches.

The chief of the Gujarat Police – DGP K L N Rao has reminded police personnel of the rights and dignity of accused persons, cited judgments from the Supreme Court and Gujarat High Court on the same and warned against action for violation of such orders.

A nearly four-decade-old pending case about five police constables in Uttar Pradesh who brawled over the favours of their canteen cook has led the Supreme Court to uphold the right to speedy trial as a human right, besides directing a sweeping enquiry into the backlog, judicial vacancies and bail pleas languishing in trial courts across Uttar Pradesh.