Feb 23, – The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a total of 271,138 people have lost their lives in the war which broke out on March 2011. More than 270,000 people have been killed in Syria’s nearly five-year conflict, a monitor said Tuesday in a new toll released just a day after a […]
Feb 05, – The Britain-based monitor said rebels had regained control of more than half of the town of Ratyan in the fierce clashes, leaving about 60 opposition fighters and 60 regime forces dead. More than 120 members of Syrian regime forces and rebels were killed Friday in heavy fighting for a town north of […]
Jan 28, – The criticism came ahead of a Swedish announcement that it intends to expel up to 80,000 migrants who arrived in 2015 and whose application for asylum has been rejected. The European Union blasted Athens for its handling of the migrant crisis, saying it had “seriously neglected” its duty to protect the bloc’s […]
Jan 27, – Hundreds of locals, including children and the elderly, fled curfew-bound areas of Diyarbakir’s Sur district as gunfire and blasts resounded and police helicopters flew overhead, a Reuters witness said. Some people cried as they carried away possessions. Security forces killed 20 Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey while three Turkish soldiers died in […]
Jan 11, – European Union vice president Frans Timmermans said Turkey and Brussels had to speed work up on implementing the action plan, while Ankara reaffirmed it was looking at a measure to tempt more Syrians to stay in Turkey by granting them work permits. The number of migrants crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey […]
Jan 09, – Two Palestinians tried to stab Israeli soldiers manning a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Saturday before being shot dead, the army said. The attack occurred in the north of the Jordan Valley, according to a military spokeswoman. Twenty-two Israelis, an American and an Eritrean have been killed in Palestinian attacks […]
Dec 20, – Air strikes believed to have been carried out by Russian warplanes killed scores of people in the center of the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwest Syria on Sunday, rescue workers and residents said. They said at least six strikes had hit a busy market place in the heart of the city, […]
Dec 07, – In a letter to the United Nations Security Council and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Syria’s foreign ministry condemned what it called a “flagrant aggression” that killed at least three soldiers late on Sunday. Syria expressed outrage Monday after a suspected US-led coalition strike for the first time killed regime troops, but the […]
Nov 16, – The Israeli army had reported that troops had “hit” three Palestinians in an exchange of fire which occurred during the demolition of the house of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli. Two Palestinians were killed Monday by Israeli soldiers who came to destroy the home of another Palestinian at Qalandiya in […]
Sep 25, – Shiite Muslim Iran, furious that 131 of its people died in the stampede at this year’s hajj, blames Sunni rival Saudi Arabia and says it is unfit to manage the pilgrimage. Iran, which established a conservative Shiite Islamic republic in 1979 after overthrowing the pro-Western shah, has long been a rival of […]
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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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