During his official visit to Sri Lanka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk welcomed proposed legislation to decriminalise same-sex relations. ..

Sri Lanka is an island which has one main law and several customised ‘laws’ or regulations to suit certain communities and ...

United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk made several pronouncements in Sri Lanka which tell us that he ...

But beyond these common names lie the full, official names of these countries, many of which are surprisingly long, complex, ...

What kind of world do we live in—one where justice and humanity have fled to brutish beasts, and world leaders, particularly ...

The myth of a Tamil homeland collapses under scrutiny of historical records, colonial chronicles, and demographic facts. The ...

India has been a key economic and infrastructure partner of the Maldives. It has been supporting the Greater Male ...

The Indian diaspora in the UK and the US are rejecting the term 'South Asian', calling it reductive and misleading. They ...

Zambia's former President Kenneth Kaunda has never forgiven himself for urging Milton Obote of Uganda to attend the 1971 ...

Coming to India, disputes regarding ownership of areas near the borders of states are quite common. Even after the lapse of ...

The Tibetan spiritual leader said that his lineage would continue, and that China would have no say about his successor.

The exile government that was built by the Dalai Lama to preserve Tibetans’ cultural identity will be put to the test by his eventual succession.