June 12, – 16-year-old’s family alleges she was raped and murdered after she went missing last evening. This was followed by reports of rapes from Hamirpur, Moradabad, Kushinagar and Sitapur districts. In Moradabad, the body of a 16-year-old girl — a Class XI student — was found hanging from a tree in Rajpur Milak village, which […]
May 31, – Turkish police have shot tear gas at protesters, more than 100 have been detained 15 were injured during demonstrations Saturday marking the one-year anniversary of Gezi Park and Taksim Square mass protests in Istanbul last year, Turkey’s Human Rights Association (İHD) said. 25,000 officers have been dispatched to quash the protest. Several hundred people had […]
May 30, – Pope Francis warned Friday that the millions of people affected by the Syria crisis risk being forgotten because of the “globalisation of indifference” toward the conflict. The international community risks “forgetting the daily victims, the unspeakable suffering, the thousands of refugees, including the elderly and children, who suffer and sometimes die from […]
May 29, – The e-cigarette was pushed centre stage ahead of World No Tobacco Day, with doctors and policy experts urging the UN’s health agency to embrace the gadget as a life saver. Electronic cigarettes could be unsafe and lead to long-term health problems, ministers have admitted. They are considering toughening-up the law by ensuring […]
May 25, – Throngs of Shiite Muslims converged on a shrine in Baghdad on Saturday for an annual ritual under heavy security, but a string of attacks outside the capital killed 25 people. The bloodshed was the latest in a protracted surge in nationwide unrest that has fuelled fears Iraq is slipping back into the […]
May 23, – Schools were shut, international television stations were off air and channels broadcast military logos and patriotic music, a day after Thailand’s military seized control following a six-month political stalemate that has sapped economic growth. Amid a foreign media blackout, martial law and strict curfews, the army has called forward 114 “Red Shirt” […]
May 21, – Two car bombs exploded at a bustling bus terminal and market in Nigeria’s central city of Jos on Tuesday, killing at least 118 people, wounding dozens and leaving bloodied bodies amid the flaming debris. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the twin car bombs. But they bore the hallmarks of […]
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 16, – The U.S. ambassador has requested additional security and is reducing the number of people stationed at the embassy in Nairobi amid an increase in threats. No group claimed responsibility for the blasts, which went off minutes apart in the Gikomba market near downtown Nairobi. President Uhuru Kenyatta, appearing at a previously planned […]
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 […]
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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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