A blemished US human rights record
March 4 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
US police murder George Floyd.
Colombo: The United States struts about the global stage portraying itself as an ideal democracy an...
Sri Lanka minorities warn Muslim nations ahead of UNHRC vo...
March 23 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Anti-Muslim rhetoric continues to plague the country [File: Chamila Karunarathne/EPA]
Minority community leaders in Sri Lanka have...
India under attack over killings on Bangladesh border
February 11 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
A Catholic Church official has joined a global rights watchdog to condemn India's failure to deliver justice for scores of brutal killi...
Mass Graves of Kashmir
February 6 ,2021
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By: Ahmar Hussain and Warda Nawab
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA - SEPTEMBER 15: Graves are seen inside a Kashmiri martyrs graveyard on September 15, 2011 in Srinagar, the s...
‘A ghost that haunts’: Living with landmines in Kashmir
A Kashmiri boy with a bicycle walks past a crater caused by a landmine blast, in a photo from December 2004 [File: Reuters]
One ni...
Empty grave for Kashmir teenager killed by Indian forces
January 8 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
RafiqaBanoo, mother of 16-year-old Ather Mushtaq [Dar Yasin/AP Photo]
On a recent chilly winter day in Indian-administered Kashmir...
‘No one bothered’: Afghan mother waits for son held in Gua...
October 20 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Sehar Bibi holds a photograph of son Asadullah Haroon, in Shamshatu refugee camp near Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar
For...
Maldives detains Bangladeshi migrant workers seeking unpai...
July 27 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
Human Rights Watch on Saturday (July 25) urged the Maldives to drop charges against 80 migrant workers arrested for demanding their unp...
Dalit Atrocities: In Pursuit of Justice Amid Lockdown
July 19 ,2020
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By: Parth MN
On the midnight of June 18, a 30-year old Dalit woman walked into a police station of a small town in Maharashtra. Anxious, distressed,...
I fear for my father imprisoned in pandemic-stricken India
June 29 ,2020
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By: Ruwa Shah
Like thousands of other young people, I, too, am worried about my elderly parents during this pandemic. I am especially concerned about...
Human Rights Watch highlights genocide of Muslims in India...
January 18 ,2020
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By: SAM Staff
India’s unilateral actions in Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 caused enormous suffering and rights violations of the Kashmiri po...
Iranians, Iranian Americans detained at US-Canada border f...
January 10 ,2020
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By: Rowaida Abdelaziz
Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US airstrike on Baghdad International Airport.
It was a trip Heidi must have taken over...