Freedom of speech and expression

Sri Lanka has taken steps towards legal, institutional and security sector reforms, but more action is still needed, according to a report issued on...

The attempt to censor criticism on Twitter illustrated the government’s most notable anti-democratic practice of pressuring social media companies to police criticism of the...

Many Muslim girls chose to wear hijabs. That choice cannot be denied unless they are violating any law or accepted norms of decency in...

UN-appointed independent rights experts issued a statement on Monday calling on India to end relentless misogynistic and sectarian attacks against an investigative journalist. The appeal from special...

INSEC-Nepal has documented 6,285 victims of human rights violence and abuses in 2021. There were 5,163 cases of women and 560 cases of men...

UN human rights experts point out that the authorities in Bangladesh have yet to conduct an investigation into the murder of prominent journalists Sagar...

An open letter signed by over a thousand people thus far says that the Hijab is just a pretext to impose apartheid on and...

Bangladeshi human rights organisations have written to the UN human rights council to counsel the Bangladesh government to put an end to extrajudicial killings,...