New Delhi: It is now a well established fact that State Apparatus of India is lethargic and insensitive in the cases of Human Rights violations. However Courts play an important role to push in right...

NEW DELHI: Custodial killings, police abuse including torture, and failure to implement policies aimed at protecting vulnerable communities marred India's record in 2011, according to the Human...

The Jammu & Kashmir State Human Rights Commission says 2,730 bodies have been found in unmarked graves in Kashmir. This officially confirms earlier accusations by human rights groups. Security forces...

It is now official that more than 2500 un-identified bodies are buried in four Northern Districts of Kashmir. It is feared that the numbers may be many fold if un-marked graves are also reported from...

Srinagar : Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here today that a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission is the only way to find answers” to “who have been buried in these...

Srinagar : For the first time in Jammu and Kashmir, an official inquiry has said that it is “beyond doubt” that there are scores of unidentified bodies in unmarked graves in the Valley — as...

Killing in custody, in fake encounters and in police firing has become a regular feature of Human Rights Violations in the country but no serious effort is in sight to deal the menace. Extra judicial...

KARACHI: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) announced its verdict in the Sarfaraz Shah killing case Friday, Geo News reported. According to the verdict, Rangers official Shahid Zafar who shot Sarafaraz...

Islamabad: As many as 168 children have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan during the past seven years as the CIA has intensified its secret programme against militants along the Afghan...

New Delhi (August 4, 2011): India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Thursday sought explanation from Jammu and Kashmir Police as to why it did not intimate it about the death of a youth in...

CHANDIGARH: Authorities at maximum security jail, Nabha in Patiala were held guilty for the custodial death of a 23-year-old jail inmate Mandeep Singh. For the same, Punjab government was slapped a...

As far as communal violence and police’s partial role in it is concerned it must be admitted that our laws are very good and our police force is capable of bringing riots and violence under control...

ISLAMABAD: Justice Saqib Nisar of the Supreme Court, who is presiding over a judicial commission set up to investigate the kidnapping and murder of journalist Saleem Shahzad, has expressed concerns...

PATNA: Wajahat Habibullah, Chairman of The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has expressed his shock on the Police Firing in Forbesgang. After a visit to the Village Bhajanpur, Mr Habibullah...

Guatemala City: Marta Orellana, 74, a victim of the US syphilis trial when she was nine. 'They never gave me a chance to say no,' she says. Marta Orellana says she was playing with friends at the...

Patna: Old Rafiq Ansari is inconsolable, shocked and quite simply beyond words as he comes to grips with the loss of his seven-month-old grandson — a death he considers almost surreal. Baby...

Lucknow : A minor girl was allegedly raped and her body found hanging from the branch of a fallen tree within the premises of the Nighasan police station on Friday. Ten policemen and the Station...

New Delhi: Imran Ahmad Kirmani’s was released from Tihar Jail after a court held him innocent and the prosecution failed to prove charges against him. The 29-year-old aeronautical engineer,...