A week before the Games begin amid tensions between the two superpowers, China Daily, an English-language newspaper run by the ruling Chine...

The Games will also include five competitors from China's western Xinjiang region, media there reported, including two ethnic Kazakhs, one ...

China says it gained support on issues including the treatment of Uyghur Muslims from a number of Persian Gulf states following talks betwe...

President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday that he is mulling a US diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Beijing.

He said the reforms are aimed to further protect the overall human rights of Indian citizens and to curb Pakistan's "nefarious designs" aim...

Congress’ Shashi Tharoor says opposition with PM Modi on the matter; Michelle Bachelet also raises NRC.

The global community is aware about Pakistan's role in aiding, abetting and supporting terrorist, India said.

The exchange of heated arguments happened after Pakistan's Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri raised the Kashmir issue in the Parliament.

India called for the Human Rights Council to continue to strengthen its adherence to the fundamental principles for retaining its relevance...

Singh said the NRC was being demanded in Assam for a long time and the previous state government had set up foreign tribunals following the...

The need of the hour is to consciously ensure that the Council continues to function in a "non-selective, non-politicised, non-confrontatio...

The draft has been sponsored by the US and other core group of countries called 'Human Rights in Sri Lanka, with focus on government effort...

Two militants convicted of attack on the military were hanged yesterday, bringing to an end the moratorium which was in place since 2008.

Opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena has pledged to repeal 18th amendment & restore 17th which de-politicised Lanka's key democratic i...

'A minister can even appoint a paanwala as his secretary. This is not a post which is advertised. He may even opt for no secretary at all. ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao thanked US President George W. Bush for not "politicising" the Games.

"No country, however powerful, should escape scrutiny of its record, commitments and actions on human rights," UN chief said at a inaugural...