South Asia

Despite the promised amnesty, Taliban commanders are executing and forcibly "disappearing" soldiers, policemen, and intelligence officials of the previous regime, says Human Rights Watch.

India’s constituency delimitation process will be torn between the ideals of equal representation and protecting minority groups.

Are “part-time terrorists” on the rise, or is the term used to evade accountability for police abuses?

Fifty years after the Bangladesh liberation war, Pakistan remains reluctant to apologize for the horrific violence it unleashed on millions of Bangladeshis.

Hindutva outfits unleash violence on Muslim men who marry Hindu women, alleging that they are feigning love to convert them to Islam.

India’s aspirational climate action policies fit into a general pattern of incremental progress at the global level that lacks the collective sense of urgency required.

Colombo has agreed to pay millions of dollars to a Chinese company that has reportedly supplied it with contaminated organic fertilizer.

Pakistan’s opening of the overland trade route to Indian humanitarian aid to Afghanistan came on the Taliban’s nudging.

It is not yet clear how the U.S. will respond to India’s receipt of Russia-made S-400 air defense systems. 

There is a need for sensitization of judges to child rights and child abuse. Courts need to ensure that victims are not re-traumatized.

Khurram Parvez has highlighted the culture of impunity and widespread rights abuses by Indian troops in the region.

Having reaped success in getting the government to roll back the farm laws, the protesting farmers are pushing for more.