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Human Rights

Observe Kandhmal Day on August 25, 2017

Sarabha to Saibaba: an unending story of state repression

November 15, 2022
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Gurpreet Singh November 16 marks the 107th martyrdom day of a towering revolutionary of the Indian freedom struggle. Kartar Singh Sarabha was executed in 1915…

Kat Norris will always be missed even outside the Indigenous communities

July 12, 2022
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Gurpreet Singh It was heartbreaking to hear about the passing away of a tireless activist from Greater Vancouver on July 7. Kat Norris, a residential…

We all need to stand up for a Pakistani student facing potential deportation

June 20, 2022
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Gurpreet Singh Zain Haq, a 21-year-old international student at Simon Fraser University, has gone into hiding to avoid Canada Border Services agents. His "fault" is…

1984: When they came for the Sikhs

June 03, 2022
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Gurpreet Singh It was the summer of 2018 when I was visiting Berlin with my family. My curiosity for the history of the Holocaust was…

BC government’s decision to ban Russian liquor exposes double-speak on human rights

March 08, 2022
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Gurpreet Singh Premier John Horgan and opposition leader Kevin Falcon might disagree on number of issues, but the recent developments in faraway Ukraine have brought…

Why am I not excited for Harnaaz Sandhu ?

December 24, 2021
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Gurpreet Singh As soon as the news came of an Indian model bagging the Miss Universe title, many of my media colleagues and Facebook friends…

Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary is a reminder of our obligation to raise voices against state repression

November 19, 2021
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Gurpreet Singh It was Sunday, November 13 in 2016. We had gathered at Holland Park in Surrey to protest against the growing attacks on religious…

Man behind one of the first authentic field reports on Sikh Genocide being incarcerated, will the world pay attention ?

October 24, 2021
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Gurpreet Singh As we head into the first week of November, which marks 37 years of the Sikh massacre, a scholar who was behind documenting…

When will Canada speak out for beautiful minds that remain behind bars in the world’s so called largest democracy?

September 09, 2021
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Gurpreet Singh It was the fall of 2018, a year before the last federal election in 2019 which saw Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned to…

From Bujha Singh to Stan Swamy, the Indian state has proved that it doesn’t care for seniors when it comes to suppressing any voice of dissent

July 07, 2021
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Gurpreet Singh July 5, 2021 will go down as another black day in the history of the world’s so-called largest democracy. It was then that…
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