Muslims are being killed in the name of cow raksha in Modi government, Photo: File Patna: Activists of an extremist Hindu party in India beat a Muslim to death and injured another with rods and sticks on suspicion of carrying beef. According to Indian media, 56-year-old Naseem Qureshi was chased by a group of fanatical…
Bahrain International Airport Bahrain canceled visas issued to Human Rights Watch representatives to attend an international parliamentary conference. This would be the first time since 2012 that Human Rights Watch (HRW) representatives would visit the Gulf country. The 146th session of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) will begin in Bahrain from Saturday. HRW has permanent…
Influenza kills two in India; Photo: File New Delhi: In India, the number of patients infected with influenza A virus type H3N2 has doubled, while two deaths have also been reported in Haryana and Karnataka. According to the World News Agency, two deadly types of influenza have started to rise in the cities after Corona….
File photo A Korean Airlines passenger plane was evacuated after pistol bullets were found. 9 mm bullets were recovered from a passenger on the plane before take off at South Korea’s Incheon International Airport. The plane was scheduled to depart for Manila at 8:30 am, carrying 218 passengers and 12 airline crew members. After various…
In an appeal for $178 million to support humanitarian assistance across the seven affected countries in the Greater Horn region, veteran WHO worker Liesbeth Aelbrecht warned that the situation was worse than anything she’d seen in more than two decades in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. “These 48 million people do include as…
In a statement, the dozen experts said representatives from the Russian-owned mercenary outfit had been “offering pardons for criminal sentences to prisoners who join the group and take part in the war in Ukraine, as well as a monthly payment to their relatives”. The experts – members of the Working Group on the use of Mercenaries, the Working Group…
Renewed violent clashes between non-state armed groups and government forces have sparked the latest emergency, with 300,000 people forced to flee their homes in North Kivu Province in February alone. According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, another 20,000 fled at the start of the week and nearly 50,000 became displaced from the Kitchanga region in Masisi territory…
The International Day was proclaimed following the unanimous adoption of an Assembly resolution last March that called for global dialogue that promotes tolerance, peace and respect for human rights and religious diversity. As the UN Secretary-General stated, the nearly two billion Muslims worldwide – who come from all corners of the planet – “reflect humanity…
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said the humanitarian supplies had been off-loaded in Chasiv Yar, which is some 10 kilometres to the west of Bakhmut, which Russian forces are attempting to wrest control from Ukrainian troops. After months of fighting, the mercenary Wagner Group now claims to be in control of the eastern part…
Gender equality in the judiciary has been historically unbalanced, including at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. The first woman to be elected as a member of the ICJ in 1995 was Dame Rosalyn Higgins, who in 2006 also became the first female President of the Court. …
