Kashmir Violence Tests Modi's Promise of 'Muscular' Foreign Policy

Recent fighting across the Line of Control dividing disputed Kashmir is once more escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, with each side accusing the other of starting the violence. The artillery exchanges - the most serious since a 2003 cease-fire - are threatening newfound hopes for improved relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a self-declared Hindu nationalist, was elected in May having promised a “muscular” policy toward India’s...

Read complete article

~	UN rights experts urge Iran to immediately release British-Iranian citizen after fresh charges

~	In Blaustein lecture, UN rights chief rebukes notion that multilateralism is a threat in today's world

~	In Blaustein lecture, UN rights chief rebukes notion that multilateralism is a threat in today's world

~	In Balustein lecture, UN rights chief rebukes notion that multilateralism is a threat in today's world

~	Strong civil society can push back against 'major attack' on human rights, says senior UN rights official

~	In Balustein lecture, UN rights chief rebukes notion that multilateralism is a 'threat' in today's world

~	Iran: UN rights experts urge country to halt imminent execution of juvenile Amirhossein Pourjafar

~	UN rights experts urge Iran to halt imminent execution of juvenile Amirhossein Pourjafar

~	General Assembly elects new members to UN Human Rights Council

~	UN General Assembly elects new members to the Human Rights Council