The Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission published its seventh report on Czechia on 27 October. ECRI’s team had been in the country the previous November, and by the standards of such documents
The Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission published its seventh report on Czechia on 27 October. ECRI’s team had been in the country the previous November, and by the standards of such documents
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The continued closure of the Kartarpur Sahib Corridor has raised concerns around religious freedoms in relation to crossing borders. The Punjab Legislative Assembly passed a resolution on the 27th October 2026 requesting
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A violent confrontation inside his Munich apartment left a journalist who had considered himself a peaceful person contemplating an act of revenge with a hammer. The incident, followed by months of anger,
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The weight we carry Many of us came here with little more than hope. We came from Colombo and Chennai, from Kabul and Khartoum, from Beirut and Hanoi. We cleaned offices before
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Christa Pike, the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, has described continuing physical and psychological suffering after surviving a failed execution involving two doses of the lethal injection drug pentobarbital on 30
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For the families, the publication of the findings has not brought an end to the consequences of the deaths. Zainab Salihu, whose son was among the 37 miners who died in custody,
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Editorial The death of a man in police custody is not an administrative mishap to be explained away by a routine statement from the Police Media Division. It is a matter of
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The abduction and sexual abuse of Alawite women and girls in Syria have become a growing concern for human rights investigators, with a comparative assessment by the International Institute for Religious Freedom
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Sri Lanka plans to strengthen existing elephant fences and construct new barriers in a village in Puttalam district before considering the allocation of land on the village side to newly married young
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Fishermen’s organisations in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district have demanded an end to Indian trawling in fishing grounds off the Northern and Eastern provinces and the withdrawal of a proposed Fisheries Bill,
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Public life is increasingly dominated by triviality, distraction and a reluctance to treat important matters with the seriousness they deserve. The complaint is not simply about bad manners or poor taste. It
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When Ayumi’s two daughters left home, the 62-year-old resident of Kawasaki began to see her marriage differently. After more than two decades together, she and her husband had little left in common,
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Money, technological success and the promise of personal freedom have failed to deliver happiness to the billionaire family at the centre of Philipp Oehmke’s new novel, Papenburg. In a review published by
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Having risen to power promising to dismantle draconian laws, the NPP government is now pushing legislation that critics warn could criminalise dissent, weaken judicial safeguards and expand executive power. The irony is
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by Our Special Correspondent in Jaffna An interim archaeological investigation at Chemmani in Sri Lanka’s northern Jaffna district has recovered 574 minimum-number-of-individuals human skeletons, documented 51 accumulations of disarticulated bones and registered
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