Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrive at National Human Rights Commission of India, in New Delhi.
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Protesters march around a burning effigy of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as they mark International Human Rights Day during a rally near the presidential palace in Manila, ...
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Protesters burn an effigy of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as they mark International Human Rights Day during a rally near the presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. Th...
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People hold candles and shout slogans during a protest on International Human Rights Day in Ahmadabad.
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President Ram Nath Kovind addresses during the Human Rights Day Function being organised by the National Human Rights Commission, at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi.
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President Ram Nath Kovind during the Human Rights Day Function being organised by the National Human Rights Commission, at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi.
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Patna Women's College students display placards during a rally to mark the Human Rights Day, in Patna.
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Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Activists pull down a "Lady Justice" sculpture at the end of a protest in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels. The protest was against the international court...
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International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney smiles during a Foreign Ministers G7 meeting in Dinard, Brittany. Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has launched a media freedo...
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Protesters demonstrate in support of prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong. Wang was sentenced to four and a half yea...
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Reporters surround Monica Sanchez, after reading the Constitutional Court ruling on human rights violators, in Santiago, Chile. The ruling is a defeat for conservative forces in Ch...
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Activists of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Sewa Dal protest against Government of Pakistan on International Human Rights Day at Teen Murti, in New Delhi.
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The Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, (ICJ), is illuminated in blue light in The Hague, Netherlands in support of the global campaign of Human Rights W...
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Relatives and members of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) take part in a silent sit-in protest on Human Rights Day, in Srinagar. APDP is seeking the whereabouts...
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Human rights activist P Geetha, who is on a hunger strike in support of the nuns' protest demanding the arrest of a rape-accused bishop, interacts with a nun, during their agitatio...
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All Faith Human activists protests against NRC in Assam and protect Human Rights, in Kolkata.
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All Faith Human activists protests against NRC in Assam and protect Human Rights, in Kolkata.
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Righting Wrongs
Petitioners are asking for the right to sexual autonomy
Photograph by Jitender Gupta
International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney speaks during Senior Day activities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
J-K BJP spokesperson Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo has sought the intervention of the commission for direction to authorities to provide security to all sarpanches in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Magpies are on the verge of being sold to a Saudi-backed consortium that involves Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for around £300 million ($368 million)
Shaheen Bagh, the inhumanity of migrants trudging home, activists being jailed. The significance of human rights has perhaps never been more pronounced.
There is no inherent tension between national security and human rights in the minds of soldiers. The debate should be directed at the government that makes policies and enacts laws.
A disabled doctor fighting for wages, an interfaith couple marrying against parents’ wishes, two lovers fighting for what they wouldn’t have to fight for if they weren’t both male, a Kashmiri villager trying to save his forest home...these and more tales of people struggling for what should be theirs.
What was supposed to be India’s watchdog against rights violations has turned into what critics call a government arm for obfuscation and occasional apologies