June 03, – At least 33 people, including 10 children, were killed in government barrel bomb attacks in northern Syria on Wednesday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the deaths came in three incidents, in Aleppo province in the north of the country and Idlib province in the northwest. In […]
Feb 16, – 191 Muslim couples tie the knot at a mass wedding ceremony organised by a voluntary organisation in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. An Indian Muslim bride smiles, as she sits with other brides during a mass wedding organized by a social organization in Ahmadabad, India, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015. Mass weddings […]
Dec 23, – Recent fighting in Libya has killed hundreds of civilians and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes, the UN said Tuesday, demanding justice for serious rights violations and possible “war crimes”. In a joint report, the UN human rights office and the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) warned of surging […]
Dec 05, – Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s poll rally, Kashmir Valley was on Friday rocked by four terror attacks by militants from across the border who stormed an Army camp in Uri leaving 11 security personnel including a Lt Colonel dead and killed two civilians in Tral. The attacks and gun battles with […]
Dec 01, – Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists forced the temporary closure of government headquarters on Monday after clashing with police, defying orders to retreat after more than two months of sustained protests in the Chinese-controlled city. Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying said police had been tolerant but would now take “resolute action”, suggesting […]
Nov 21, – It was a highway robbery but the bandits got more than they bargained for when they stopped a taxi van in Guinea and made off with blood samples that are believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola virus. Authorities publicly appealed on national radio Friday to the unidentified robbers to hand […]
Nov 19, – Thousands of devotees of an Indian spiritual leader who is wanted for questioning in a 2006 murder case fought running battles with police Tuesday outside the guru’s heavily fortified ashram in northern India. About 190 people, including more than 100 security forces, were injured in the melee as authorities tried to move […]
Nov 17, – A pair of car bombs targeted busy commercial areas in the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 31, officials said. In the first attack, a car detonated on a commercial street in the Meshtal neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killing at least eight people and wounding 15, police […]
Nov 04, – Iranian hardliners demonstrated to mark the anniversary on Monday of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran, a sign of the considerable obstacles to President Hassan Rouhani’s diplomatic initiative to ease tension with Washington. Large crowds gathered early on Monday morning around the embassy building – often described as the […]
Nov 04, – Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie backed an ambitious global campaign on Nov. 4 to end the plight of at least 10 million stateless people with no country to call home. A child is born stateless every 10 minutes, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said as it […]
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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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