Category: Human Rights Activism
Jan 18, – The programme was launched in November and has enabled nearly 6,000 pupils — a total of 2,784 boys and 3,129 girls — to resume their lessons, according to the monthly bulletin of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Niamey. The Niger government and UN staff have moved […]
Jan 13, – The Zogby Research Services poll of 5,374 young Muslim men and women from the Middle East and North Africa also found that many millennials blame corruption and repressive governments for the rise of jihadist groups. A majority of Arab Muslim youths see the actions of extremists such as the Islamic State group […]
Jan 13, – Park Geun-hye’s comments came as Seoul said North Korea had flown leaflets across the border describing her and her government as “mad dogs” as Cold War-style propaganda warfare continued between the rivals. South Korea’s president on Wednesday urged North Korea’s only major ally, China, to help punish Pyongyang’s recent nuclear test with […]
Nov 29, – The assailants burst into a home in the village of Nueva Frontera in the northwest of the country, police spokesman Leonel Sauceda said, with two others left wounded in the brutal attack. Attackers armed with guns and machetes killed at least six people — three of them children — on Saturday in […]
Nov 24, – One soldier was stabbed to death while another was seriously wounded in the same attack at a petrol station on the edge of the occupied West Bank. An Israeli soldier and three Palestinian alleged attackers were killed in another day of violence, on the eve of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s […]
Nov 19, – Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in Wednesday’s assault by elite police units on an apartment in northern Paris, which left at least two people dead. The Islamic State jihadist suspected of masterminding the Paris attacks was killed during a major police raid, prosecutors confirmed Thursday, as French lawmakers voted to extend a state […]
Nov 18, – The Cubans have been making their way north from Panama to Costa Rica to Nicaragua, seeking to eventually reach the United States, where Cubans receive special treatment that welcomes them without a visa. But Nicaragua, a close ally of Cuba, closed its border with Costa Rica on Sunday to stop them. Cuba’s […]
Nov 12, – Warplanes bombed two rebel troop transports north of Damt, the Daleh province’s second-largest city, which the Iran-backed Huthi rebels and their allies recaptured on Saturday, a military official said. Saudi-led coalition air strikes and attacks by pro-government forces killed at least 24 rebels Thursday in Yemen’s south, where the insurgents have been […]
Oct 14, – A World Health Organization official says the death rate in the current Ebola outbreak has increased to 70 percent. WHO assistant director-general Dr. Bruce Aylward gave the figure during a news conference Tuesday. Aylward said that the 70 percent death rate was “a high mortality disease” in any circumstance and that the […]
Nov 01, – The bloodshed accelerated sharply after a deadly April 23 crackdown by security forces on a Sunni protest camp in a northern Iraqi town, which set off near-daily attacks, mostly by Sunni extremists and al-Qaida militants determined to undermine the country’s Shiite-led government. Attacks and other violence across Iraq killed 979 people in […]
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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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