UN Deputy High Commissioner for human rights Nada Al-Nashif delivered an oral update on the human rights situation in Afghanistan on Tuesday. She briefed the Human Rights Council in Geneva on how the humanitarian crisis has worsened in Afghanistan since the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban in August of this year. Al-Nashif reported the [...]

Access Now and a coalition of civil society organizations Wednesday raised alarm over safety and security issues plaguing popular messaging app, Telegram. In an open letter to CEO and co-founder of Telegram Pavel Durov, the coalition detailed what the company can do to ensure that the human rights of their 500 million users are prioritized. [...]

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence Marama Davidson Tuesday launched a 25-year plan to tackle domestic and family violence in New Zealand homes. This is the country’s first national strategy for eliminating family violence and sexual violence. It is known as “Te Aorerekura” and it involves 10 agencies working [...]

The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued an injunction against various generic pharmaceutical companies, preventing them from manufacturing or selling Valsartan and Sacubitril tablets used to treat cardiovascular diseases. The court said that the generic companies’ manufacturing or selling of these tablets may amount to infringement of a patent owned by major pharmaceutical company Novartis AG. [...]

Bhavit Sheth and Harsh Jain, the founders of online fantasy sports platform Dream11, filed a petition Monday in the Karnataka High Court seeking to quash the First Information Report (FIR) filed against them over the new state law that bans betting and gambling in online games. The move comes after an FIR was registered against [...]