Apr 27, – South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won announced his resignation on Sunday over the government response to the ferry disaster, in which it was first announced that everyone had been rescued, focusing attention on poor regulatory controls. The Sewol ferry sank on a routine trip south from the port of Incheon to the […]
Apr 21, – Israel’s army said its strikes hit two training camps run by Hamas, after even rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel during the Jewish Passover holiday on Monday, drawing retaliatory air strikes from the Israeli army, officials said, the first cross-border clash in several weeks. The Palestinian Islamist group […]
Apr 18, – Fresh questions arose about whether quicker action by the captain of a doomedferry could have saved lives, even as rescuers scrambled to find hundreds of passengers still missing Friday and feared dead. Officials also offered a rare look at their investigations, saying they were looking into whether a crewman’s order to abruptly turn […]
Apr 08, – The father of a Venezuelan TV journalist says his daughter has been kidnapped by armed, masked men in the western section of the capital of Caracas. Luis Pinto said Monday that his daughter Nairobi Pinto was taken hostage Sunday afternoon at the entrance to the building where she lives. She is the […]
Apr 04, – Masked militia stormed a university in Caracas hurling stones and fireworks as tensions mount over Venezuela’s crippled economy. The militia members prevented journalists from photographing a student who lay on the ground, apparently gravely injured. Pro-government students at the Central University of Venezuela battered their anti-establishment peers with sticks, hospitalising three. Hundreds […]
Mar 28, – The siege of a Kabul guesthouse used by a U.S.-based aid group ended on Friday after Afghan security forces killed the last Taliban gunman holed up inside, a military commander said. At least one Afghan child was killed, he added. “The fight is over. Five attackers are dead,” Qadam Shah Shaheem, commander […]
Mar 28, – Dozens of US lawmakers have urged President Barack Obama to publicly address Saudi Arabia’s “systematic human rights violations” when he visits the kingdom Friday. With their decades-old alliance fraying amid tensions over Washington’s efforts to reach a nuclear deal with Iran and its reluctance to engage more forcefully in Syria, regional issues […]
Mar 22, – China said new satellite image object was 22 meters long (74ft) and 13 meters (43ft) wide, and spotted around 120 km (75 miles) “south by west” of potential debris reported by Australia off its west coast in the forbidding waters of the southern Indian Ocean. China said on Saturday it had a […]
Mar 22, – A source at the Police Command told that group opened fire at the bakery’s manager, Mohammad Baioun and chairman of the national reconciliation committee in al-Hameh, Hussam Skaf near the municipality building, killing the former while the latter was wounded by a gunshot. This is not the first attack against heads and […]
Mar 22, – The Israeli military said its forces raided a home in a refugee camp in Jenin where they shot and killed a Hamas militant, Hamza Abu Alhija, after he opened fire. Two Israeli troops were wounded when he shot at them, they said. Hamas supporters carried three bodies through the streets of 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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