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Foreigners' nightmare

War of words

Australia vetoes UN declaration granting indigenous people the right to "self-determination"

A mixed blessing

Everyone has the right to live in a pollution-free environment says the United Nations

Corporate US

US double standards on human rights smacks of global hypocrisy

Dry truths

UK plays spoilsport

An amendment to deny

Commotion, just that

No man's land

Swelling gripe

In Pakistan's troubled Balochistan province

It's a bad, bad world

So let's not pretend being nice to all

ONLINE VIGIL

Neglected people

Freedom pitch

Protest>> Letter • China

Blogging out executions

Capital punishment>> Blogs • Iran

Scientists open new avenue to study head muscle dystrophy

By identifying mechanism by which muscles above the neck are formed during development of embryo in the womb, the study may help to test drugs …

'Animals and humans have shared spaces in India long before 1972'

In the aftermath of a tragic incident in Maharashtra's Junnar, where 5 leopard cubs were burnt to death unknowingly by a farmer in whose field …

Fracking, mining, murder: the killer agenda driving migration in Mexico and Central America

Are high levels of violence and displacement in Central America and Mexico caused by natural resource exploitation?

Stone Age tools found in Tamil Nadu suggest re-framing of ‘Out of Africa’ theories

New evidence suggests that a Middle Palaeolithic culture was present in India around 385,000 years ago—roughly the same time that it is …

Leopard kills forester in Uttarakhand; authorities suspect it to be a man-eater

The staff of the Rajaji Tiger Reserve was attacked in the Motichur range in Raiwala area

Trade-off- human rights and the market

The clarion call of open markets could override the North's 'insistence' on linking trade with human rights and environmental issues

The politics of interventionism

We all recognise that if an international force on the scale proposed is committed to Somalia, against the opposition of the loco] warlords, …

2004 diary: Kriti

Wars, communal carnages, human rights violations galore, the untrammeled march of global capitalism: 2003 was a bleak year for all yearning for a …

"We have won against the army"

Muhammad Ali Shah has been crusading for the rights of fisherfolk for the past three decades. Presently he heads the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (…