Sep 16, – Police on a scenic Thai resort island searched hotels and workers’ residences Tuesday looking for clues into the slayings of two British tourists whose nearly naked, battered bodies were found on a beach a day earlier. More than 70 police officers were deployed to Koh Tao, a popular diving destination in the […]
Sep 15, – About 500 Syrians, Palestinians, Egyptians and Sudanese are feared to have died after their boat was rammed and sank off the Malta coast last week, the International Organization for Migration said Monday. The group of migrant workers was undertaking a perilous journey from the Egyptian port of Damietta, seeking a better life […]
Sep 02, – Cameroon’s army claimed on Tuesday to have killed more than 40 Boko Haram fighters who tried to storm a strategic border crossing from Nigeria. Heavily armed fighters “attempted to cross the bridge at Fotokol” in the extreme north of the country and opened fire on Cameroonian soldiers, the ministry of defence told […]
Sep 02, – The Islamic State militant group released a video purporting to show the beheading of U.S. hostage Steven Sotloff, the SITE monitoring service reported on Tuesday. Horrific footage of Steven Sotloff’s beheading was released by the bloody ISIS today. In the video entitled “A Second Message to America,” the journalist appears in the same […]
Sep 01, – Pakistan’s powerful army said on Sunday any further use of force to resolve an escalating political crisis would only worsen the situation, after weeks of protests demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation turned violent. Peaceful anti-government demonstrations spilled over into deadly confrontation overnight after thousands of protesters tried to storm Sharif’s residence. […]
Aug 10, – Rival vigilante militias in the Central African Republic have clashed with heavy weapons overnight in the capital Bangui, residents say. The gunfire had subsided by Saturday noon, but the situation remained tense in a northern suburb of Bangui, where the fighting took place. “It is the anti-balaka, they do not leave us […]
May 26, – An express train has slammed into a parked freight train in northern India – killing at least 40 people, officials said. The Gorakhpur Express passenger train was travelling at high speed and slammed on its brakes in an attempt to stop, but ploughed into the train sitting on the tracks near a […]
May 24, – Militants in Mogadishu on Saturday carried out a multi-pronged, complex attack against the country’s parliament building involving a car bomb, suicide bomber and gunmen on foot, police said. Frightened members of parliament blamed the military for failing to prevent the attack, but other politicians praised the army for limiting the attack’s damages. […]
May 16, – The operator of a Turkish mine in which 284 people died this week and 18 remain trapped said on Friday the exact cause of a fire was still unclear but that a build-up of heat had caused a partial collapse in the plant. Rescuers were still trying to reach parts of the […]
May 13, – Claim adds to growing concerns that Assad’s government is still using chemical weapons after hundreds killed in attack last year. A leading international human rights group said on Tuesday it has strong evidence that Syria’s army used chlorine gas on rebel-held neighbourhoods last month, dropping the canisters in crude bombs on residential […]
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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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