The Islamic State group has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community’s heartland in southern Syria. State television broadcast footage of the six arriving in the city of Sweida on Saturday, joyful at being reunited with their families but haggard […]
Despite death threats and rejection, Syrian women have found the courage to speak out about rape. The first time a woman who had been raped inside a Syrian prison, it was November 2011. I was in Homs and the city was under siege. We were there meeting victims of the first wave of crackdowns on […]
Western Myanmar’s Rakhine state when the military came and the gunfire started. “All the men from the village started running away, and my son ran with them,” Zubaida, 25, says. He didn’t get far: Myanmar soldiers shot him dead — in the back. With her 8-year-old son’s head resting in her lap, Zubaida was sitting […]
Two Syrian jets took off today from the same air base that was hit by U.S. missiles and carried out strikes on areas under rebels control in the countryside of eastern Homs. Assad Angrily declaring that the US attack would not go unpunished, Syria’s brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad vowed swift retaliation on his nation’s civilians […]
Top EU court ruled against women in France saying: ‘The visible wearing of any religious sign does not constitute direct discrimination. Two registered cases were taken to the court by women in France and Belgium who were sacked for refusing to remove their headscarves. ‘However the court ruling says the willingness of an employer to […]
Women celebrating as they removed their face veil, stomped on it and set it alight after her village was reportedly liberated from the Islamic State. The video footage of the moment released the woman, who is not identified, cheered and screamed as she removed her niqab as other women and children – also wearing gleaming […]
Yemeni capital air raid kills eight women and a child at a funeral reception, witnesses said, adding to the conflict’s mounting civilian death toll. 10 other women were wounded in the overnight raid on the district of Arhab, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Sanaa, medics sent to the site told. The United Nations gave […]
An Indian minister faced a severe backlash Tuesday after he criticised women for dressing “like westerners” at a New Year’s Eve celebration where a mob allegedly carried out a series of sex assaults. Although police have yet to charge anyone in connection with the violence on Saturday night in Bangalore, local media have carried testimony […]
Dec 03, – Men and women with mild heart disease share the same risks, at least over the short term, a new study suggests. Doctors have thought that women with mild heart disease do worse than men. This study, however, suggests that the rate of heart attacks and death among men and women with heart […]
Oct 27, – Women with lupus are twice as likely to have a child with autism compared to mothers without the autoimmune disease, new, preliminary research finds. However, the overall risk is still low and the findings won’t change the management of women with lupus, said one expert. “I wouldn’t tell my lupus patients not […]
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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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