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    India Faces UN Scrutiny Over Discrimination as CERD Report Flags Grave Concerns

    The Committee’s report underscores a broader pattern in which exceptional measures and administrative practices risk normalising discrimination rather than eliminating it.
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    Freedom of speech and expression

    Hate Speech in Sri Lanka Increased 113 Per Cent after November 2024, Says UN

    According to the United Nations in Sri Lanka, over 35 per cent of all gender-based harmful speech recorded in November was targeted at women candidates campaigning for the parliamentary elections.
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    Diversity

    Minorities Commission Advises States, UTs to Hold “Sarv Dharma Meeting”

    The commission said that it should be the responsibility of citizens and society to disown and condemn the hate crimes done by anti-social and...
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    Diversity

    668 Instances of Hate Speech Targeting Muslim in India, Says Report

    The research group said in a report released on Monday that about 75 per cent, or 498, of those incidents took place in states...
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    Bangladesh

    India’s Bangladeshi Bogeyman

    During the 2019 election campaign, then BJP president and now Home Minister, Amit Shah, described Bengali-speaking Muslims in border states as ‘termites’—invoking the same...
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    Freedom of speech and expression

    India Supports UN’s Rights Council ‘Fake News’ Resolution; States Urged to Tackle Hate Speech

    Officially sponsored by Ukraine, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the UK and US, the draft resolution presented to the Geneva forum emphasised the primary role...
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