June 30, – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has published a dramatic photo showing Syrian refugees poring over the border to find safety in the neighboring Jordan. The photo depicts Syrian refugees – some with white sacks on their backs – making their way through a narrow rocky pass, while thick clouds […]
June 03, – The United Nations food agency, the FAO, on Monday issued a stark warning over food security in war-torn Somalia, launching an urgent appeal for $18 million to stop hunger spreading. Last year’s harvest was already poor and prices are rising as food stocks from 2013 are being rapidly depleted, the FAO warned […]
May 29, – Thousands of students rallied across France Thursday to protest against the anti-immigration National Front party, whose historic success in EU polls they said threatened democracy. Waving banners that read “No to the National Front”, and “Wake up, France,” demonstrators rallied in Lyon, in the east of the country, as well as in […]
May 27, – Ukrainian forces fought with separatists in the city of Donetsk for a second day on Tuesday after inflicting heavy losses on the rebels while the government vowed to press on with a military offensive “until not a single terrorist” was left. A representative for the pro-Russian militants conceded that about 30 rebels […]
May 22, – Islamic militants killed 48 villagers in northeastern Nigeria near the town where they kidnapped 300 schoolgirls, and the U.S. said Wednesday it was sending in 80 military personnel to expand the drone search for the captives. The developments came hours after twin car bombings claimed at least 130 lives in the central […]
May 22, – Thailand’s army chief seized power Thursday in a bloodless coup, mounting the country’s 12th military takeover since 1932 in what he called a necessary move to restore stability after nearly seven months of political deadlock and deadly violence. Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha said a military commission that imposed martial law two days earlier […]
May 20, – Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing at least 46 people and wounding dozens, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the twin car bombs, but they bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist […]
May 20, – Bosnia has said that more than a quarter of its 4m people had been affected by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in living memory. As if the catastrophic flooding weren’t enough, the region is also dealing with a host of other consequences from the flooding, including land mines, landslides and […]
May 09, – A US congressional panel passed a bill Friday that would impose sanctions on those responsible for human rights abuses against anti-government protesters in Venezuela. U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, made the following statement at a House Foreign Affairs Committee markup in which the […]
May 02, – At least 350 people were killed and several hundred more are missing and feared dead after a village was buried by a huge landslip in a remote region of Afghanistan, officials said Friday. One-third of the 1,000 homes in the village were completely covered by mud several feet deep, local police told […]
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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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