OP-ED: India Is Not The Strategic Partner Canada Thinks It Is

October 24, 2025

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand recently led an official visit to New Delhi where she launched a “New Roadmap for Canada-India Relations.” While the ensuing joint statement talked about the relationship being based on a “mutual respect for shared democratic values,” the Canadian approach has been based on flawed logic with the potential to yield disastrous results.

WSO Calls for Ontario Liberals to Withdraw Candidacy of Viresh Bansal Over Hate-Filled Comments

February 17, 2025

The World Sikh Organization of Canada (WSO) has called on the Ontario Liberal Party to immediately withdraw Viresh Bansal as their candidate for Oshawa after the emergence of deeply offensive and hateful social media comments.

Sikh Federation Canada Hosts Human Rights Advocate Jaspal Singh Manjhpur on Parliament Hill

December 4, 2024

Ottawa: Sikh Federation (Canada) hosted Bhai Jaspal Singh Manjhpur, a prominent human rights lawyer, for a series of briefings and a reception on Parliament Hill last week. During these meetings, Bhai Jaspal Singh highlighted the ongoing human rights violations against Sikhs in Punjab and the direct impacts of these violations on the Sikh community in […]

Justice Kuldip Singh, Who Called Sikh Cremations “Worse Than Genocide,” Dies at 92

November 27, 2024

New Delhi, November 27, 2024 – Justice (retired) Kuldip Singh, the former judge of the Indian Supreme Court termed the extrajudicial killings and secret cremations of dead bodies of Sikhs during the mid-1980s-1990s in Punjab as “worse than genocide”, passed away on Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at the age of 92. Justice Singh’s comment about […]

Advocate Amar Singh Chahal on Indian State’s Policy of Impunity in Punjab

October 24, 2019

A number of human rights lawyers held a joint press conference on October 16, 2019 at Press Club Chandigarh to express their opposition to the Indian State's policy of impunity for Crimes Against Humanity committed by Indian Security forces in Punjab during 1980s-1990s.

On Impunity in Punjab & Pardoning of Guilty Cops: Advo. Jaspal Singh Manjhpur [Video]

October 20, 2019

Human Rights Lawyers Oppose Impunity in Punjab; Condemn Release of Cops Guilty of Extra-Judicial Killings

October 20, 2019

Declaring that Punjab Government move to get police police officers convicted of fake encounters and extra-judicial killings released from jail as “unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional”, various human rights lawyers today held a joint press conference and condemned the move.

‘Encounter killings in UP Alarming’: UN slams Yogi Govt.; Takes Notice of Encounter Killings in UP

January 12, 2019

Today, on 11 January 2019, four UN human rights experts have expressed alarm about allegations of at least 59 extrajudicial killings by police in Uttar Pradesh since March 2017.

‘Countering Silence’ report on extra-judicial executions in UP and Haryana makes Shocking Revelations

May 23, 2018

A human rights group named Citizens Against Hate has released a report titled “Countering Silence” on extra-judicial executions in Uttar-Pradesh and Haryana states.

”Civilians Killed Were Wearing Pathan Suit” Says India’s Military Tribunal While Justifying Bail Out Of Convicted Soldiers

July 29, 2017

In a reasoning given by India's military tribunal while justifying the release of the five soldiers convicted for murdering unarmed civilian and dubbing