Kyiv: Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are to sit down for a fresh round of talks next week in an attempt to end the war in Ukraine that the UN estimates has killed at least 1,100 civilians and sent more than 3.8 million fleeing to other
Kabul: Women’s rights activists pledged to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban fail to reopen girls’ secondary schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls had flocked to classes on Wednesday after the hardline Islamists reopened their institutions for the first
Damascus: Syria has pressed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to question Israel about its "crimes and systematic flagrant human rights violations" against Syrians in the occupied Golan Heights, Quds Press reported. This came in a statement delivered by the permanent Syrian representative to the
London: A man has been charged with the murder of London-based mother-of-two Yasmin Begum. Police were called to 40-year-old Begum’s home in Bethnal Green, London on March 24, after she did not pick up her children from school. She was found with multiple stab wounds. Paramedics tried
Amsterdam: Scientists have found traces of microplastic in human blood for the first time in new research published on March 24. The study, led by scientists at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, took blood samples from 22 donors and tested them for five different types of plastic. Plastic particles
New Delhi: A young lawyer and human rights activist from Arunachal Pradesh and a well-known graffiti artist from Assam were taken into custody by the Arunachal Pradesh Police on Sunday, March 27, for their protest artwork, drawn on the boundary walls of two state government
Karnataka: A 25-year-old student in the Karnataka state of India has been arrested for allegedly posting a WhatsApp story in which she shared a Pakistan Day wish on March 23. The woman, Kuthma Shiekh, posted a status on WhatsApp in Urdu that said: “Allah har mulk
New Delhi: The joint forum comprises 10 trade unions, including the Indian National Trade Union Congress, the All India Trade Union Congress, the Centre of Indian Trade Unions, the All India United Trade Union Centre and the United Trade Union Congress. All Indian Trade Union Congress
West Bengal: A closer look at the photo of a young man lying dead reveals horrific details of what his last moments would have been like. There is sand on his shirt, as if it spilled out from his mouth as he struggled to take
By CJ Werleman Four weeks after Amnesty International was forced to halt is operations in India in September 2020, citing the Indian government’s crackdown on civil society, the UK-based human rights organization published a report warning of a coordinated effort to target journalists and activists in