Category: European Crises
Jan 27, Kiev – Thousands of Ukrainians chanted “Hero!” and sang the national anthem on Sunday, as a coffin carrying a protester who was killed in last week’s clashes with police was carried through the streets of the capital, underscoring the rising tensions in the country’s two-month political crisis. Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 25, was one of […]
Jan 26, Kiev, Ukraine — In a striking concession aimed at defusing Ukraine’s civil uprising and preserving his own grip on power, President Viktor F. Yanukovych on Saturday offered to install opposition leaders in top posts in a reshaped government, but they swiftly rebuffed the offer to the delight of thousands of protesters on the […]
Jan 25, – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, in what appeared to be an offer of concessions to the opposition amid violent protests against his rule, pledged on Friday to reshuffle the government next week and to amend sweeping anti-protest laws. Yanukovich made his offer in comments to church leaders as the protesters erected more street […]
Jan 24, Berlin – One in two female soldiers in the German military says she has encountered some kind of sexual abuse at least once while in the armed forces, an internal study published Friday found. The report, released by the Bundeswehr’s Center of Military History and Social Studies in the eastern city of Potsdam, […]
Jan 24, Kiev, Ukraine – Anti-government unrest spread from Ukraine’s capital, and the government recalled lawmakers from a winter break for an emergency session after weeks of protests claimed their first lives. Protesters erected more street barricades and occupied a government ministry building on Friday, fuelling tension after the failure of crisis talks with President […]
Jan 23, – Tensions in Ukraine spread far from its embattled capital on Thursday as hundreds of people in the city of Lviv stormed into the regional governor’s office and forced him to write a letter of resignation. Kiev, the capital, has been the epicenter of two months of protests against President Viktor Yanukovych after […]
Jan 23, – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Spain faced five more years with jobless rates topping 25 percent unless it enacted yet more reforms, also with a view to helping firms slash wages rather than cutting jobs. The deterioration, albeit a minor one, spoiled a central bank report on a 0.3-percent economic expansion […]
Jan 22, – Opposition leaders in Ukraine are asking protesters to refrain from clashing with police for the next 24 hours, after at least two demonstrators were shot and killed in confrontations with police. Emerging after three hours of talks with President Viktor Yaanukovych on Wednesday evening, opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk said he gave the […]
Jan 22, – Police in Ukraine’s capital on Wednesday tore down protester barricades and chased demonstrators away from the site of violent clashes, hours after three protesters died after being shot, the first violent deaths in protests that are likely to drastically escalate the political crisis that has gripped Ukraine since late November. Another protester […]
Jan 21, – Ukraine’s two-month-long political crisis has shifted into a new phase after President Viktor Yanukovych pushed through harsh anti-protest laws last week that were widely seen as an attempt to quash the demonstrations calling for his ouster. The massive protests in Kiev, the capital, erupted after Yanukovych spurned a pact with the European […]
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Human Rights Observers conference on Women’s rights and Environment
Human Rights Observers an organization in special status with UN ECOSOC has organized conference on Women’s rights and Environmental awareness Speaking on the occasion prominent senior advocate smt. Venkateshwari, stated that Violence against women and girls, a gross human rights violation, devastates lives, causes untold pain, suffering and illness. She has given various examples of […]
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