Far from providing opportunities to participate in the public sphere, online spaces in India have evolved into places of relentless attacks and harassment for traditionally marginalized communities, especially women. Disinformation campaigns and trolling are pervasive, organized, and strategically deployed to seriously pollute the information system and electoral processes, resulting in weakening democratic debate and undermining...

If you work on human rights, democracy, accountability, rule of law and foreign affairs, we’d love to have you at the table. Regardless if you work within the EU institutions on protecting human rights defenders through specific case files, conduct advocacy in an NGO to promote democratic values and human rights in the big picture,...

This session takes place as part of the annual conference by the Young Fair Trade Advocates. To participate in future sessions, register as a young fair trade advocate. In June 2022, the European Union and India resumed negotiations for “balanced, ambitious, comprehensive and mutually beneficial” trade and investment agreements. Such negotiations already took place a...

We are joining RightsCon 2023, the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age, with an online booth in the Community Village. As India is undergoing a systematic assault on democracy and human rights, and similar initiatives by Indians inside the country have been shut down and criminalised, we are Indian diaspora with...

Far-right extremists across the world, from India to South America, from Europe to the United States, are drawing on race, ethnicity, and religion to construct the idea of a dangerous and unwanted “other.”  As far-right extremists band together, the mounting wave of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and nativism transcends borders, manifesting in coordinated attacks on democratic institutions...

Do you work on human rights, democracy, accountability, rule of law and foreign affairs? We’d love to have you at the table. Bring a friend or two, meet old colleagues, and let’s build new alliances within this space at our recurring flagship networking event. With (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) tapas and fresh tea provided, there will...

For religious and ethnic minorities in India, the first half of 2023 has been marked by arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial demolitions of houses, allegations of illegal religious conversions, mob attacks, and lynchings. The European Parliament Intergroup on Freedom of Religion in its 2021 report considered India to be the country of most concern. The Early Warning...

On Thursday, October 12, join us to watch "Writing with Fire", a documentary by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh. In a country where journalism is not considered a woman's profession, and where press freedom ranks 161 worst worldwide, Dalit women launched the local weekly Khabar Lahariya, which quickly gained in popularity. Barely initiated into journalistic...

With the Digital Services Act, civil society has a tool to Big Tech accountable for their role in spreading online hate and incitement to violence in the EU - but can it also be a tool for people in India and the rest of the world? On November 7, our Executive Director Dr Ritumbra Manuvie...

Ten years in solitary confinement. Ten years of shuttling from one bail plea to another. Endless health ordeals, systematic discrimination. The custodial death of 32-year old co-accused Pandu Narote. The shocking overnight reversal of an acquittal order. The life and trials of GN Saibaba and his co-accused remind us of the extent the repressive Indian...

2024 has been called the great election year and for good reason. This year, over 2 billion voters will head to the polls in 50 countries. In India, often referred to as ‘the world’s largest democracy,’ 969 million registered voters will head to the polls starting April 19, over the span of more than a...