Amnesty international india informed new report on lack of justice and accountability for human rights voilations by security force personnel in jammu kashmir. The report, “Denied: failure in accountability for human rights voilations by security faced in several cases of human rights violations belived to have been committed by indian security force personnel in jammu…
The Islamic State group has beheaded two women in Syria on accusations of “sorcery,” the first such execution of women in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Tuesday. “The Islamic State group executed two women by beheading them in Deir Ezzor province, and this is the first time the Observatory has documented women…
Even as it praised India for holding “the largest democratic elections in history”, the US on Thursday highlighted “police and security force abuses” and “widespread corruption” among its “most significant human rights problems”. “India’s parliamentary contest in April 2014 was one of the largest elections in history,” Secretary of State John Kerry said in his…
Washington: The United States denounced the “brutality” of Islamic militants Thursday as it unveiled its annual assessment of the state of human rights around the world. “No development has been more disturbing than the rise of groups such as Daesh,” Secretary of State John Kerry said, referring to the Islamic State group, as he unveiled…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns “FOLLOW-UP OF RECOMMENDATIONS: INDIA” The Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights in Manipur and the UN (CSCHR) presents a summary of the salient features of the follow-up report of the Special Rapporteur (SR) on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, which…
YouTube announced plans on Thursday for a “newswire” of eyewitness videos and a separate project on videos related to social justice and human rights. In partnership with the social news group Storyful, the YouTube Newswire will be “a curated feed of the most newsworthy eyewitness videos of the day, which have been verified by Storyful’s…
Berlin: A small German town that became a byword for xenophobia when neo-Nazis rallied against a planned asylum centre and the building was torched two months ago accepted its first refugees this week. With shy smiles, two families from Afghanistan and one from India attended a media conference Thursday in the nearby town of Naumburg…
Religious leaders have a pivotal role to play in times of turmoil, during which they can provide a values-based glue to hold communities together and provide common ground for peace-making and problem solving, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday at a conference in Kazakhstan. You can do so by fostering dialogue; by using…
The commission also sought a compliance report with a proof of payment within six weeks from the city government. A 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an employee of the city government’s LNJP Hospital on October 2, 2013. According to NHRC, the city government, in response to the commission’s show cause notice, had said “the…
Human rights organisation Amnesty International India has sent a submission to the joint parliamentary committee on land bill, flagging its concerns about lack of consent, social impact assessment and consultation under the amended legislation. In its seven-page submission, the organisation said that, “if passed into law in its current form, the Bill will undermine the…