Mar 12, – The head of the United Nation’s refugee agency said on Tuesday it must be ready in case Ukraine’s crisis causes refugees to flee Crimea, but his biggest worry is that “a total disaster” could occur if the international community diverts its attention away from Syria’s conflict. Antonio Guterres, the head of the […]
Mar 10, – The Syrian government has committed numerous war crimes as part of the siege of Yarmouk, Amnesty stated in a report released on Monday Amnesty International accused President Bashar Al Assad’s forces of perpetrating war crimes as part of a siege in southern Damascus which has killed nearly 200 people, mostly by starvation. […]
Mar 05, – A giant asteroid will pass extremely close by to earth and our moon tonight, according to NASA. While the asteroid will come close enough for star gazers with a good telescope to see the celestial event, there will be no an apocalyptic near miss, with its closest distance from earth estimated to […]
Feb 28, – “We are working closely with Colombia and other countries to try to see how some kind of mediation might be able to take place, because it’s obviously already proven very difficult for the two sides to bring themselves together by themselves,” Kerry said during a joint news conference with his Colombian counterpart. […]
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 […]
Feb 27, Doha – An explosion at a restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha has killed 12 people and injured at least 30, according to officials. Initial indications suggested a burst natural gas tank on top of a Turkish restaurant was to blame. It happened shortly after 10:00 (7:00 GMT), near a petrol station and […]
Feb 27, Caracas – The capital Caracas, which has seen most of the at least 13 fatalities from this month’s unrest, was quieter on Thursday, though opposition activists planned a rally and demonstrators maintained a few street barricades. Venezuelans began a week-long national holiday on Thursday with some protests still simmering but President Nicolas Maduro’s […]
Feb 27, – Israeli soldiers and police surrounded the home of Muataz Washaha, 24, and called on him to turn himself in. Although his relatives came out of the house, he refused to leave. Israeli forces opened fire and killed a Palestinian they were seeking to arrest in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, after […]
Feb 26, – An opposition group said the dawn ambush — part of a government effort to secure the capital — was carried out by the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which has been instrumental in helping President Bashar Assad’s regime push back rebels entrenched in the suburbs of the capital city. Syrian army troops on Wednesday […]
Jan 31, – Russian men who down large amounts of vodka — and too many do — have an “extraordinarily” high risk of an early death, a new study says. Researchers tracked about 151,000 adult men in the Russian cities of Barnaul, Byisk and Tomsk from 1999 to 2010. They interviewed them about their drinking […]
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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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