June 05, – An 18-year-old Pakistani has survived being shot and thrown in a canal by her family for marrying the man she loved, police said, weeks after the “honor killing” of another woman drew worldwide condemnation. Ali Akbar, a local police official, said Saba Maqsood had been attacked and shot by her father, uncle, […]
May 08, – India’s air monitoring centre Thursday dismissed data released by the World Health Organisation that showed New Delhi’s air as the dirtiest worldwide, saying the finding was biased and misleading. A study of 1,600 cities across 91 countries released Wednesday by WHO showed Delhi had an annual average concentration of airborne small particles […]
Apr 08, – Iraq’s electoral commission said on Tuesday that there will be no balloting in parts of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province engulfed in clashes between security forces and al-Qaida-inspired militants. Since late December, the western Anbar province has seen fierce fighting between government troops and allied tribal militias on one side, and militants from […]
Apr 07, – A masked gunman assassinated a well-known, elderly Dutch priest on Monday, shooting him in the head in the garden of a monastery where he lived in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, a fellow priest, an activist group and Syria’s state-run media said. Father Francis Van Der Lugt — a […]
Apr 04, – A man punched the chief of India’s anti-corruption party twice in the face during a campaign stop in the capital on Friday, three days before the start of national elections in the world’s biggest democracy. The motive for the attack on Arvind Kejriwal, head of the Aam Admi Party, or Common Man’s […]
Apr 02, – Calling the situation “incredibly concerning”, NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe, U.S. Air Force General Philip Breedlove, said NATO had spotted signs of movement by a very small part of the Russian force overnight but had no indication that this was part of a withdrawal to barracks. Russia has massed all the […]
Mar 29, – An armed Taliban attack on the election commission headquarters in the Afghan capital has ended. All five attackers were killed by Afghan police. For four hours, the five militants launched an attack with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns on the Independent Election Commission (IEC) headquarters on the eastern edge of the capital […]
Mar 29, Cairo – A 20-year-old female reporter for an independent newspaper was shot dead Friday while covering pro-Morsi demonstrations in the northern Cairo neighborhood of Ein Shams, sources said. Her name was ”Mayada Acharaf, she worked for Adoustour newspaper and she was killed by the Muslim Brotherhood”, according to Veto independent website. ”She was […]
Mar 27, – One of several Gulf states to shower Egypt with cash and petroleum products after the army ousted elected Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Mursi, the UAE also looked ahead, seeking to bolster a system that could keep Islamists it sees as an existential threat from running the most populous Arab state. Egypt’s army […]
Mar 23, – Protesters clashed with police in Madrid as thousands of people trekked across Spain to protest austerity which they claim is destroying their country. Under the banner “no more cuts!” the protesters called for an end to the government’s “empty promises.” Police arrested at least 29 protesters following the clashes which took place […]
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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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