Kolkata, Mar 25 (JEN): After a spate of attacks on churches across India recently, a missionary school in north Bengal has received four handwritten letters in Hindi with a threat message of ...

New York, Mar 24 (JEN): Violations of human rights “fuel and shape the conflict” in the occupied Palestinian territories, a senior United Nations official reported to the Human Rights Co ...

New York, Mar 19 (JEN): The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar on Wednesday called on the country’s authorities to address ongoing challenges to the ...

New York, Mar 18 (JEN): The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Tuesday that it is deeply concerned about the prolonged political impasse in the f ...

Kolkata, Mar 18 (JEN): With no arrests being made yet in connection with the gang rape case of an elderly nun in West Bengal's Ranaghat, the National Human Right Commission (NHRC) on Wednesd ...

Bhopal, Mar 17 (JEN): Five organisations fighting for the rights of the survivors of the December '84 Bhopal gas disaster expressed anger at the repeated non-appearance of The Dow Chemical C ...

New York, Mar 17 (JEN): A four-month United Nations investigation into the human rights situation in Eritrea has found “very clear patterns” of violations and abuses, according to a repo ...

By Oxfam India The historic Right to Education (RTE) Act came into force in April 2010. The Act provisions for 8 years of free and compulsory education for all the children between 6 and ...

New York, Mar 14 (JEN) Spotlighting the positive actions of women in planning and decision-making to make their communities safer before, during and after disasters strike, senior United Nat ...