Human Rights Commission seeks report on dowry death in Kaimur

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New Delhi, June 19: The UK's Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) will be the model for India's proposed Equal Opportunities Commission, officials have said as they finalise a related bill that makes religion-based headcount of workforce mandatory.

Our national dialogue on higher education places much emphasis, and rightly so, on college graduates? "employability." With the rising cost of attending a college causing families to take on greater financial debt, many weigh the merits of a college ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary expresses its perplexity and rejects the statement made by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay on 18 June 2013. The UN High Commissioner, while welcoming the opinion ...

KOLLAM: The funeral rites of S Balaraman, former acting chairman of the State Human Rights Commission, who passed away on Monday, was performed at the Polayathodu public crematorium on Tuesday evening. The funeral pyre was lit by his grandson Rohan ...

KATHMANDU: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday urged the government to expedite rescue efforts to evacuate flood victims. The pre-monsoon rainfall has flooded many parts of the country, killing more than 10 people in the last few ...

A Brazilian congressional human rights committee on Thursday approved legislation that would allow psychologists to treat homosexuality as a disorder or pathology. The commission is led by evangelical pastor Marco Feliciano of the Social Christian ...

(WBHRC) has taken a suo motu cognizance of the Barasat rape and murder case. On Monday, the commission has directed IG, South Bengal, to initiate a probe into the case and submit a report within three weeks. "The decision was taken by the commission in ...

Two police officers, including an inspector attached to the Maduravoyal police station, have been pulled up by the state human rights commission for forcing hotel staff to supply them free food. The commission fined them Rs 1 lakh each and ordered the state ...