July 31, – Islamic hard-line militias claimed to have taken control of Libya’s second largest city, Benghazi, after defeating army units, taking over military barracks and seizing tanks, rockets and hundreds of boxes of ammunition, as fighting in the capital prompted a wave of evacuations Thursday by foreign nationals, diplomats and Libyans. The extent of […]
Apr 07, – A masked gunman assassinated a well-known, elderly Dutch priest on Monday, shooting him in the head in the garden of a monastery where he lived in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, a fellow priest, an activist group and Syria’s state-run media said. Father Francis Van Der Lugt — a […]
Mar 26, – An army spokeswoman told after the incident that soldiers had spotted three Palestinians vandalising the barrier, saying they had “verbally warned” them before firing warning shots in the air then shooting at their lower extremities. Israeli troops who shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank last week used live fire, […]
Mar 21, – A British woman was sentenced to 12 years in jail Friday for throwing acid on her friend’s face following an argument. Mary Konye disguised herself with a veil and attacked Naomi Oni in the early hours of Dec. 30, 2012, leaving her with disfiguring burns on her face, a hand and a […]
Mar 15, – Flight MH370 last communicated with air traffic control on March 8 east of Malaysia, and that area of the South China Sea between Malaysia and Vietnam initially was the focus of the search. Many experts assumed the plane had suffered a sudden catastrophic event because pilots didn’t alert ground control before it […]
Mar 13, – The decision comes after the film sparked controversy among conservative Christians in the U.S., which prompted Paramount Pictures to add a disclaimer to its marketing material saying that “artistic license has been taken” in telling the story. Officials across much of the Muslim world said Thursday that the upcoming big-budget Hollywood film […]
Mar 04, – Putin ordered troops in on the grounds of protecting Russian interests, including the massive Black Sea Fleet and the majority ethnic Russian population, after Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovich was toppled in a popular uprising. “Since he wanted to invade Crimea, he needed a pretext and said that his compatriots were oppressed,” said […]
Feb 28, – The report by the State Department also foreshadowed the unrest in Ukraine that just toppled its government. A chemical weapons attack in Syria last summer that the U.S. says killed more than 1,400 people was the world’s worst human rights violation of 2013, the Obama administration concluded Thursday. The survey singled out […]
Sep 15, KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Gunmen shot and wounded the top female police officer in a troubled southern Afghan province Sunday, just months after her predecessor was killed, officials said. It was the latest in a series of attacks on prominent women in Afghanistan, where just 1 percent of the police force is female. The […]
Sep 11, – United Nations: An initial French draft UN Security Council resolution would demand that Syria make a complete declaration of its chemical weapons programme within 15 days and immediately open all related sites to UN inspectors or face possible punitive measures. The elements of the draft resolution, seen on Tuesday, adds that the […]
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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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