New statistics on the use of physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands show that hundreds of patients were given lethal drugs without a request from the patients. The figures for 2015—the most recent statistics available—show 431 cases in which the patient’s life...
The nuns of the Provincial House of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel (CMC) providing accomodation to the transgenders employed by Kochi Metro who were facing homelessness. In one of the first major initiatives to employ transgen-ders, the Kochi Metro Rail Ltd...
Protestors waved flags and chanted as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the White House on June 26 for a meeting with President Donald Trump. “We’re here basically to raise awareness of the human rights violations that are happening with India,” Jatinder...
A mob killed a man allegedly carrying beef in Jharkhand on June 29, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed killing people in the name of cow protection as unacceptable. Police sources said Alimuddin alias Asgar Ansari was carrying the “banned meat” in a van...
A Mumbai-based NGO on June 27 urged the United Nations to declare August 26, the birth anniversary of St Mother Teresa, International Compassion Day. In a state-ment, Harmony Foundation President Abraham Mathai said compassion is the need of the hour and what better...
