An aviation company official says the plane that crashed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing five people, was not certified as airworthy and was undergoing major repairs after an earlier crash. Anil Chauhan, a manager at UY Aviation, which owned the small King Air C90, said the plane was on a test flight when […]
A man armed with a knife attacked students at the entrance to a primary school in Shanghai’s central Xuhui district on Thursday, killing two of the children, police said. The 29-year-old man attacked three male students and one female parent with a vegetable knife around 11:30 a.m. (0330 GMT), the Xuhui branch of the Shanghai […]
Indian police urged people Wednesday not to believe false rumours spread on WhatsApp after a woman was killed and a dozen hurt in the latest mob attacks to leave authorities looking powerless. In the worst of the five assaults in the western state of Gujarat on Tuesday, a destitute woman, Shantadevi Nath, and three others […]
Myanmar’s military said it sacked a top general who was named in fresh EU sanctions against security officials accused of serious rights violations in the Rohingya crisis, including killings and sexual violence. Myanmar is accused of waging a crackdown in Rakhine state that forced 700,000 to flee that the UN and major western powers have […]
The European Union will impose sanctions on seven Myanmar security officials on Monday (Jun 25), according to EU diplomats and officials, over what it says are systemic human rights violations against the country’s Rohingya Muslims. The seven will face asset freezes and be banned from travelling to the European Union, after the bloc extended an […]
Renault stole a march on their Formula One rivals on Sunday when they gave a Saudi Arabian woman a chance to mark a special day by driving one of their cars ahead of Sunday’s French Grand Prix. On the same day that women celebrated being allowed to drive on the roads of Saudi Arabia, Aseel […]
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are facing a new deadly threat – from monsoon rains. Heavy rains have flooded parts of the group’s sprawling camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where almost 700,000 have fled to from Rakhine State in neighbouring Myanmar. Fleeing violence allegedly perpetrated against them, a number of Rohingya refugees have died […]
Dynamics in the southern front in Syria have reached a tipping point. Russian-Israeli coordination is taking precedence over the ceasefire agreement that US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin reached on the sidelines of the G20 summit last year. Iran and the United States are both facing increasing pressure in the area, while […]
Despite death threats and rejection, Syrian women have found the courage to speak out about rape. The first time a woman who had been raped inside a Syrian prison, it was November 2011. I was in Homs and the city was under siege. We were there meeting victims of the first wave of crackdowns on […]
Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in South Asia have killed dozens of people and displaced more than a million, most in northeast India and Bangladesh, authorities said on Tuesday. The Brahmaputra river, which flows from the Himalayas down to India and then through Bangladesh, has burst its banks, swamping more than 1,500 villages […]
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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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