The United Nations satellite agency says an analysis of images shows widespread new damage in the opposition-held eastern suburbs of Damascus. The preliminary analysis conducted by UNOSAT of satellite imagery from eastern Ghouta’s towns of Kafr Batna and Arbeen shows new damage in a 62.5-square-kilometer (24-square-mile) area, with buildings completely destroyed or damaged since Dec. […]
Military chief of Myanmar has warned against United Nations investigation in his country. The army chief calling more than one million Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state as from Bangladesh interlopers, despite them having lived there for generations. The chief also signalled his armed forces will shun a fact-finding mission into atrocities on Rohingya, following a motion […]
At least 370 civilians killed by US-led air strikes in seven days of fighting, says monitor Airwars, US and its coalition partners fighting the Islamic State have killed hundreds of civilians in the first week of March monitor report claims. The US air power Supporting Iraqi forces storming western Mosul, according to reports by monitoring […]
Over 1000 Rohingya Muslims have been systematically killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior UN officials UN dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported. United Nations officials, from two separate agencies working in Bangladesh, where nearly 70,000 Rohingya have fled in recent months, […]
Thousands of traumatised Syrians left the rebel enclave of Aleppo Monday as the UN voted to deploy observers there and said it planned new peace talks in Geneva in February. “It is the intention of the United Nations to convene those negotiations in Geneva on 8 February 2017,” UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said after […]
Top United Nations diplomats warned on Saturday that there could be no victory in the battle for the Syrian city of Aleppo without negotiations. “You can win a war but you can lose the peace,” said Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign affairs chief, at a conference on the Mediterranean region in Rome. As of […]
Central Africa clashes between rival armed groups in the Central African Republic have left at least 16 people dead and displaced several thousand civilians, the UN said Wednesday, warning of “targeted assassinations” against ethnic Fulani. “There have been at least 16 confirmed death and thousands displaced,” Vladimir Monteiro, spokesman for United Nations peacekeeping force MINUSCA, […]
Save the Children has hit out at the moral outrage of the mounting deaths and suffering of children in the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo, in a statement released Wednesday. The charity said medics across northwest Syria were looking to fortify hospitals after a wave of attacks in rebel-held east Aleppo left facilities struggling to […]
Fourteen million people in northeast Nigeria urgently need humanitarian assistance and 75,000 children risk dying in “a few months”, the United Nations warned Tuesday. Boko Haram jihadists have laid waste to the country’s northeast since taking up arms against the government in 2009, displacing millions. UN humanitarian coordinator Peter Lundberg said the crisis was unfolding […]
The United Nations has negotiated the release this year of 876 children detained at a Nigerian army barracks holding suspected collaborators of the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group, the U.N. Children’s Fund announced Friday. The agency fears hundreds more children are still being held at the barracks in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the UNICEF […]
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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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