Human Rights
Left parties in Bangladesh demand fair trial for persecuted leaders

The presidents of the Workers Party of Bangladesh and the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal party have remained in police custody for over three weeks now

PTI leaders arrested after mass mobilization in Islamabad demanding release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan

Khan has been imprisoned for over a year now, despite courts either suspending or overturning all of his prior convictions

The crisis in Afghanistan is a result of US recklessness

The US presidential hopefuls have traded accusations regarding who is responsible for the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, but fail to consider the well-being of the Afghan people

Pakistan set to illegally expel more Afghan refugees

Right groups and left parties in Pakistan have opposed last year’s expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Afghans by the government, which also accused them of participating in terrorism and other criminal activities

Afghans continue to bear the cost of two decades of US occupation

Three years since the defeat and withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan, the people of the country face extreme economic difficulties and deteriorating human rights

Every place in Gaza—including schools—is a target

At 4:30 am on August 10, Israeli jet fighters flew over Gaza City and dropped US-made GBU-39 250-pound bombs on the al-Taba’een school and mosque

Humanitarian caravan advances in Colombia with more than 100 social organizations

More than 100 social organizations lead humanitarian caravan in five regions of Colombia

Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh states that there is conspiracy to destabilize the country

Over 160 people, including students, were killed, and hundreds of others were injured in the last two weeks after student protests turned violent on July 15

At least four dead and scores injured in violence following Balochistan rally in Pakistan

The organizers decided to convert the protest gathering in Gwadar into an indefinite sit-in after the killing and arrest of leaders in clashes with security forces

Israel arrests soldiers who stand accused of gang raping a Palestinian detainee

Despite recurrent calls by human rights organizations to shut down notorious Israeli clandestine prison Sde Teiman, violations against detainees have not stopped

Security forces detain chief of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in crackdown on Balochistan rally

The rally was called by Mahrang Baloch-led Baloch Yakjehti Committee to demand the an end to enforced disappearances and human rights violations in Balochistan

New Lancet study shows air pollution kills 33,000 people every year in India’s major urban centers

Most of the victims of bad air in India’s major cities are working people who cannot access adequate healthcare facilities