Sep 12, – Syrian government air raids on a rebel-held area near Damascus killed 42 people, including seven children, a monitoring group said Friday, giving an updated toll. Thursday’s air strikes were carried out in Douma, a satellite suburb northeast of the capital that has been under siege for more than a year. “The toll […]
June 07, – More than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls who remain captives of Boko Haram militants “definitely” face the danger of being raped, the U.N. special representative on sexual violence in conflict said. “My worry is those girls don’t come back half of them pregnant,” said Zainab Hawa Bangura told a luncheon at the British Residence […]
June 02, – Syrian rebel rocket fire on government-controlled areas of Aleppo killed 50 people over the weekend, a monitoring group said on Monday, the eve of an election in which rebels have warned they will step up attacks on state targets. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll from the attacks […]
June 01, – At least 40 Syrian soldiers were killed on Saturday when rebels detonated explosives packed beneath an army base in Aleppo, activists and rebels said. The Islamic Front, an umbrella rebel organization, claimed responsibility for the bombing, though the claim could not be immediately verified. A video posted on the internet showed a […]
May 18, – From his base in Damascus, Bashar al-Assad can contemplate a broad sweep of Syria clawed back from rebels who once threatened to drive him out. The capital which they targeted is now plastered with posters inviting Syrians to reelect him president. Powerful foreign allies have helped Assad hold or retake a chain […]
Feb 24, Kiev – As rival neighbors east and west of the former Soviet republic said a power vacuum in Kiev must not lead to the country breaking apart, acting president Oleksander Turchinov said late on Sunday. Ukraine’s new leaders wanted relations with Russia on a “new, equal and good-neighborly footing that recognizes and takes […]
Jan 11, – Thai police on Saturday said it wasn’t clear who was behind the shooting, but that most of those wounded were demonstrators. “The first attack occurred at 2.30 am (local time), wounding two people, including a protest security guard. The second took place a few hours later, wounding five protesters,” Police Lieutenant General […]
Dec 30, – Riyadh: A Saudi news website says a judge in the holy city of Makkah ordered a man to be lashed 20 times for accusing his spouse of not being a virgin when they married. Al Sharq Online reported Monday that the Yemeni man was sentenced to be flogged in one session for […]
Dec 25, – The good news: Research suggests that a new federal rule has prompted the nation’s schools to serve an extra $5.4 million worth of fruits and vegetables each day. The bad news: The nation’s children throw about $3.8 million of that in the garbage each day. Researchers from Brigham Young University and Cornell […]
Dec 25, – The United Nations’ top humanitarian official in South Sudan told reporters in the capital, Juba, on Tuesday, that the death toll was much higher than the figure of 500 that officials have given for the past few days. “Absolutely no doubt in my mind that we’re into the thousands” of dead, Toby […]
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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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