18 March: A Le Pen campaign rally in Metz, France. Photo by Elyxandro Cegarra/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.18 March: A Le Pen campaign rally in Metz,...
Image: 15 women activists participated at the recently concluded CEDAW- Sri Lanka session.
In its concluding observations of the recently concluded consideration of the 8th...
Geneva/Vienna (3 March 2017) – Leading monitors of freedom of expression around the world have come together to issue a Joint Declaration on freedom...
The body has been accused of unfairly targeting Israel, and Trump aides are questioning its usefulness.
By NAHAL TOOSI and ELIANA JOHNSON
The Trump administration is...
Commit to Protect Students, Teachers, Schools, and Universities During War.
(Paris) The French and Canadian governments should be congratulated for becoming the latest countries to...
Image:Clashes with police turned violent in December, when around 1,000 veterans formed a human shield between police and 'water protector' protesters Getty Images.
'We’ve stood...
Image:Popular poster – Chaurasi Devataon-wali Gai
By Sadanand Menon.
The cow, the bull and the buffalo have waddled themselves into the centre of India’s politics,...
Image copyright AP: The allegations against Donald Trump in the documents read like something from a bad film
By Paul Wood BBC News, Washington.
Donald Trump...
Artsy Editorial.
By Molly Gottschalk.
In September of this year, Facebook censored—and quickly reinstated—the iconic 1972 photograph of a nude, nine-year-old girl fleeing a napalm attack...
Image: Rehabilitated manual scavenger, Usha Chaumar, 40, stands on the stairs of her newly built three storey house in Alwar, Rajasthan, India on 24...
Cynthia M. Wong, Senior Researcher, Internet and Human Rights.
This week, the European Union’s top court once again found that blanket data retention mandates are...
Image:A gate at the entrance to the Pray Sar prison near Phnom Penh, 8 December 2016, AP Photo/Heng Sinith.
This joint statement was originally published...
Image:Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, leaves the Justice Palace after his trial in Istanbul on Friday Credit: OSMAN ORSAL/REUTERS.
Turkey holds at least 81...
Image:The media is meant to report the truth, but the structure and vested interests of the Indian press have stopped that from happening.
The daily...
Image courtesy of CNBC.
by Tariq Ali
Fidel Castro, Cuba’s leader of revolution, has died aged 90. Here is an extract from Tariq Ali‘s introduction to The Declarations of Havana, Verso’s collection...
Front National leader Marine Le Pen has taken a sizeable lead over Nicolas Sarkozy in a new French presidential election poll.
The far-right leader had...
Heather Saul.
'To the degree that he pursues racist, sexist, xenophobic and anti-environment policies, we will vigorously oppose him,' warns senator.
Donald Trump’s election victory...
Image:Nearly 20,000 people had indicated they would attend on the event’s Facebook page, which warned ‘the police are not your friends’. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock.
Masked anti-capitalism...
Image: A still image, taken from video footage and released by Russia's Defence Ministry on August 18, 2016, shows a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber...
( David Kaye; UN photo)
By Ashley Gorski.
UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David...
SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN.
Thursday, October 13,2016
NEW DELHI: Since the September 18 attack on an Indian army post in the north Kashmir town of Uri, the media...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
