HfHR member Sujata Tibrewala writes on why social media and hate speech matter, from dangerous speech patterns and algorithmic amplification to counterspeech, open-source alternatives, and community resilience. buff.ly/0vJ2UBL

🚨 NEW YORK: India’s students are risking their health because paper leaks, corrupt recruitment, and protected privilege have stolen years from their lives. Join HfHR Monday, July 20 at 7 PM at the Gandhi Statue in Union Square. Bring a sign. Bring a friend.

HfHR Bay Area will stand with India’s students and demand accountability. Monday, July 20 | 7 PM San José City Hall 200 E. Santa Clara Street Join us.

At Gandhi’s statue in DC, HfHR and The Azadi Project stood with Sonam Wangchuk and India’s students. Paper leaks are not an isolated scandal; they expose a system built to keep opportunity and power in the hands of the few. The government must listen.

Join Sadhana at the 9th annual Jamaica Bay Festival on July 25 for Clean Up and Create, an art activity expanding on Project Prithvi, our beach clean-up initiative. Free & family-friendly 📍 Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Bridge 🕘 9:45 AM–12:30 PM 🔗 buff.ly/5wVzTwo

The EU’s warning on Pakistan’s GSP+ status is clear: preferential trade access cannot be separated from human rights obligations. Ahead of 2027, Islamabad must address enforced disappearances, media freedom, torture, labor rights, and protections for minorities. www.dawn.com/news/2015939

At Gandhi’s statue in DC, HfHR and The Azadi Project stood with Sonam Wangchuk and India’s students. Paper leaks are not an isolated scandal; they expose a system built to keep opportunity and power in the hands of the few. The government must listen.

Rajiv Sinha of HfHR UK speaks with DIG Debate about the spread of Hindu nationalist politics in the UK, far-right symbolism, and what this means for community relations and democratic values. Watch: www.instagram.com/reel/Da2362Y...

Thank you @timesofindia for covering HfHR’s solidarity call with Sonam Wangchuk and the students fasting at Jantar Mantar. Join us today in DC: 📍 Gandhi Statue, Q St & 21st St NW 🕓 4 PM ET Read more: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/u...

Our Executive Director Sunita Viswanath has joined writers, actors, artists, filmmakers, and journalists in signing an appeal to Sonam Wangchuk to end his hunger strike, writing “Sonamji – we appeal to you to end your fast. You are too precious to lose in this tragic way."

This Friday in Washington, DC: Join Hindus for Human Rights and The Azadi Project in solidarity with Sonam Wangchuk as he continues his hunger strike demanding the resignation of India’s education minister. 📍 Gandhi Statue, Q St & 21st St NW 🕓 July 17, 4 PM #SonamWangchuk

Direct witness matters. Rep. Ro Khanna’s West Bank visit gives Americans a vital chance to hear Palestinians describe occupation, settler violence, restricted movement, and dispossession—in their own words. These voices must not be ignored. www.newindiaabroad.com/english/news...

Sonam Wangchuk & the students fasting at Jantar Mantar are not asking to be admired for their sacrifice. The government must meet them, address the failures they have raised, and commit to a credible accountability process. Read HfHR’s open letter: buff.ly/5r2NipB

Our Advisory Board Member, Harsh Mander, recently delivered a moving speech on democracy and human rights at an event commemorating the late Albert Schweitzer. His speech ties together helping thy neighbor with a larger, international fight for democracy: buff.ly/ddREllK

HfHR ANZ spoke out against Narendra Modi's recent visit to Melbourne, citing his poor record on democracy and human rights, civil liberties, the right to protest, and more. Read more in the Sydney Herald: buff.ly/LNxhIJW

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE agents in Houston, TX last week. While this innocent man's life cannot be brought back, we can do our part in supporting his community and family through this dark time. Check out his GoFundMe below. bit.ly/lsagfm

What did Dr. B. R. Ambedkar think about the egalitarian Bhakti movement? While he considered the Bhakti movement a protest against caste discrimination, he didn't think it was a structure fit for social transformation. Why? Learn more here 👇️🔗 buff.ly/VSiUIvp

We stand in solidarity with Sonam Wangchuk and the students fasting at Jantar Mantar. Their health is deteriorating as they call for fair examinations and accountability. No one should have to endanger their life simply to be heard. The government must engage now. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

HfHR ANZ has endorsed the July 25th protest organized by Hume for Humanity, which seeks to acknowledge the rising cost of living and economic pressures while combatting the racist and anti-migrant rhetoric pushed by One Nation as a 'solution'. Read more on Green Left: buff.ly/YXlacjs

A powerful reflection on the Ramayan serial, the rise of Ram Mandir politics, and the long consequences of turning shared cultural memory into a tool of majoritarian mobilization.

“My religion is to resist injustice.” Swami Agnivesh’s words still challenge us today. In a moment when faith is too often weaponized, his 2006 speech offers another path: one rooted in truth, love, justice, and human rights. Read + download: www.hindusforhumanrights.org/en/blog/swam...

We are grateful to Swami Satmitranand, a new member of Satya Dharma Samvad, and Swami Raghvendra, who recently met with former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Digvijay Singh Ji and presented him with the HfHR 2026 calendar.

The NEET paper leak is part of a larger crisis in Indian education. @sioindia Talha Mannan’s essay asks why a protest for educational justice must also name anti-Muslim discrimination, saffronized curricula, and the exclusion of marginalized students. maktoobmedia.com/post?id=1158...

India is pushing Bengali Muslims and Rohingya families across the Bangladesh border at night, often without formal repatriation or due process. Families are being left stranded in “no man’s land” between borders. This is cruelty, not migration policy.

Umar Khalid has spent nearly six years in jail without trial. His Guardian interview is a devastating reminder that political prisoners are not symbols or case files — they are human beings whose lives, bodies, and minds are being damaged by the state.

Today’s Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship is a vital defense of immigrant families, constitutional equality, and the promise that belonging cannot be made conditional. Read HfHR’s statement: www.hindusforhumanrights.org/en/blog/hind...

We are honored to welcome @harsh_mander to our Advisory Board. A human rights 7 peace worker, writer, teacher, and founder of Karwan e Mohabbat, Harsh has spent decades standing w communities facing hunger, homelessness, hate violence, and state neglect. buff.ly/98jcGQo

His interview from prison is a devastating reminder that political prisoners are not symbols or case files — they are human beings whose lives, bodies, and minds are being damaged by the state. Free Umar Khalid. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

We join civil society partners in standing with survivors of torture everywhere. The Intl Day in Support of Victims of Torture is a reminder that torture is never acceptable, govts must protect human dignity, uphold the law, and ensure accountability. buff.ly/caihDbr

The Adani case is not just about one billionaire. It is about whether powerful corporations can buy impunity. Senators Warren and Blumenthal are right to ask if a $10 billion investment offer influenced the Justice Department’s move to drop the case. buff.ly/5A032me

Aravinda Pillalamarri, a member of Hindus for Human Rights, writes about what America has taught her in New India Abroad. buff.ly/MEzlr3p #America250

Who can be prosecuted for the genocide in Gaza? Justice Muralidhar joins Amit Baruah on Speakeasy to unpack the UN Commission of Inquiry's findings—evidence, investigations, international law, and what accountability could look like. buff.ly/2cuwqOm #HumanRights #Gaza

HfHR ANZ’s Devleena Ghosh joins ABC’s Soul Search for a rich conversation on how Hindu gods and goddesses have been visualized across time, place, devotion, and imagination — and why divine forms in Hinduism remain so abundant and alive. buff.ly/Sp8hXJx

On the 250th birthday of America, close friend of HfHR and Swami Agnivesh Memorial Awardee Victor Begg speaks on the importance of honoring indigenous communities and our Earth amidst July 4th celebrations. #America250 Listen to his speech here: buff.ly/BCEW5Vr

Pakistan wants the world to see it as a peacemaker. Families in Balochistan are asking it to find their disappeared loved ones. @SammiBaluch ’s essay reminds us: a state’s global image cannot erase enforced disappearances, repression, and grief at home. buff.ly/GrdA1yq

The Indian government has repeatedly refused to condemn Israel's ongoing genocidal siege of Gaza. Their tactic is equal parts troubling and sinister: instead of sending concrete aid and resources, they casually suggest yoga as a form of resilience. buff.ly/dajKHD5

If a former editor with documents, resources, and public standing can lose his vote under SIR — and then have his passport renewal blocked — imagine what the most marginalized face. This is how civic rights become fragile, arbitrary, and frightening. buff.ly/x1ZcyQy

When publishers preemptively bury books, censorship wins without leaving fingerprints. Salil Tripathi’s sharp piece on Joe Sacco, Penguin India, and the cowardice of self-censorship shows how words are swallowed before they are even spoken.

The Ram Temple was built through decades of majoritarian agitation and anti-Muslim violence. Now it faces corruption allegations over donations from devotees. When faith becomes political capital, ordinary believers are often betrayed. Hindutva keeps enriching the powerful. aje.news/pn0e37

As Sonam Wangchuk begins an indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar, the CJP-led protest continues to demand accountability over the alleged NEET paper leak. Students deserve answers. Public trust cannot be restored without transparency and responsibility.

At 250, America is still unfinished. Birthright citizenship survived, but the attacks on immigrant belonging continue. War powers are being challenged, but the war’s shadow remains. This is a moment for sober gratitude—and organized courage.

For 6 years, Khalid has been imprisoned without trial. His prison reading list is more than a list of titles. It is a record of survival, imagination & resistance: a political prisoner refusing to let incarceration define the limits of his inner life.

Introducing Samadarshini—a new initiative dedicated to affirming the dignity and equality of all through Hindu thought, education, and public engagement. Because seeing one another with equal worth is not a modern invention—it is a timeless ethical calling. www.samadarshini.org

Prof. Rambachan’s keynote at Chinmaya Intl Conference 2026 is an important engagement with Advaita Vedanta, Hindu theology, liberation & interfaith dialogue. Not uncritical agreement, but way to keep Hindu thought open, ethical, and alive.

HfHR joined 39 faith organizations in an amicus brief before the Indiana Supreme Court arguing that religious freedom includes the right to make reproductive decisions according to one’s own faith and conscience. No single religious view should be imposed through law. www.ncjw.org/news/ncjw-le...

Calling every question about RSS-linked money and Hindutva politics “Hinduphobia” is not a defense of Hindus. It is a strategy to avoid accountability. This 2019 investigation into Gabbard’s relationship with pro-Modi &Sangh-linked networks is worth revisiting. caravanmagazine.in/politics/ame...

Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike at Jantar Mantar brings satyagraha into conversation with CJP’s cockroach politics. This is not just about exams. It is about whether young Indians can trust the systems deciding their futures. Read our analysis: buff.ly/idQdnYZ

Reject the idea that criticizing injustice within Hindu society makes someone “self-hating.” Self-scrutiny is not betrayal. It is part of any serious ethical tradition. Hinduism is weakened when conscience is treated as treason. frontline.thehindu.com/politics/seo...

Nearly 100 international organizations are calling for Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez’s immediate and unconditional release. On his 49th birthday, he spent yet another year behind bars without justice. India must end this political persecution. sabrangindia.in/release-kash...

On Hul Diwas, we honor the Santhal rebellion and the enduring legacy of Adivasi resistance. May this day strengthen our commitment to dignity, land rights, justice, and self-determination for Indigenous communities. newsonair.gov.in/jharkhand-ob...