Colombo, Facing an onslaught from the international community for alleged war crimes, the Sri Lankan government released a video on Wednesday which they claimed carries "authentic evidence" of LTTE's atrocities during the last phase of the military assault. The video captioned "Ruthless" claims to have recorded eye witness accounts of LTTE's child recruitment and its violence against Tamil civilians. "These are authentic evidence coming from Tamil civilians who had been...
04:09 PM, Feb 08, 2012
Abuja: A lead poisoning in Nigeria's northern state of Zamfara which has killed more than 400 children and affected thousands is "worst" in modern history, an international watch dog has said. Nigeria needs USD 4 million to clean up the area but cleanup has not even begun in many areas, the United States-based Human Rights Watch noted. It has asked for urgent medical attention for thousands of children and villages...
07:14 AM, Feb 08, 2012
New York: India's human rights record in 2011 got a thumbs down from a leading global rights group for its "failure" to protect vulnerable communities and rapped the government for custodial killings, police abuses, including torture. Human Rights Watch also criticised the Indian government for its inaction in repealing the controversial armed forces act and for remaining silent on the "gravest abuses" in countries like Syria. In its World Report...
09:43 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Washington: The US has established a new office to deal with issues like democracy and human rights in a bid to strengthen institutions that address present-day transnational threats. The Office for Civilian Security Democracy and Human Rights established by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is part of the restructuring and reorganisation of the State Department to make diplomacy a more effective tool to achieve country's foreign policy and national security...
10:29 AM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Human Rights Commission pulled up the Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday for the police brutality on protesting Bhopal gas victims. Taking suo motto cognizance of the police lathicharge on the protestors on December 3, the HRC has asked the state government to submit a detailed report on the incident. The gas victims through their protest, were demanding an adequate compensation from Dow Chemicals and Union Carbide. The...
09:26 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Beriut: Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to fight President Bashar Assad's regime, the UN's top human rights official said on Thursday. Civil war has been the worst-case scenario in Syria since the revolt against Assad began eight months ago. Damascus has a web of allegiances that extends to Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah...
03:43 AM, Dec 02, 2011
New Delhi: Suspended Gujarat IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt has said the Godhra train burning incident could not have been a conspiracy as no one was aware of the return of the train. He claimed that the incident could be called a failure on the intelligence agencies part as even they were unaware of the train's schedule. "No shot of imagination, Godhra could have been conspiracy because no one was even...
11:31 PM, Nov 20, 2011
Tripoli: The burial of slain leader Muammar Gaddafi has been delayed until the circumstances of his death can be further examined and a decision is made about where to bury the body, Libyan officials said on Friday, as the UN human rights office called for an investigation into his death. The transitional leadership had said it would bury the dictator on Friday in accordance with Islamic tradition. Bloody images of...
05:30 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: Startling facts coming to light during Mental Health awareness week. A new study says that almost four crore Indians suffer from mental illnesses and there's an extreme shortage of psychiatrists. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the number of suicides in India could be reduced by at least one-fourth if counselling is given on time. But there's an alarming shortage of trained psychiatrists. Arpita Anand, a...
09:46 AM, Oct 11, 2011
Washington: In a sharp rebuke of his Republican rivals, US President Barack Obama has said that anyone who wants to be commander in chief must support the entire US military, including gay service members. A combative Obama criticised Republican presidential candidates for staying silent when the crowd at a recent debate booed a gay soldier who asked a question of the contenders via videotape. "You want to be commander in...
11:57 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Srinagar: Apparently irked over the British Parliament's move to discuss alleged rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said some of the western countries were indulging in grave violations in Iraq, Afghanistan. "Do not lecture us on human rights... We know how you exported people from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay and what kind of treatment was meted to them there," Omar said in...
07:46 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney met the families of the six sailors held captive for over 18 months on MV Iceberg by Somali pirates on Monday to offer his support. ...
10:41 AM, Sep 27, 2011
New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has failed to respond within the deadline set by the National Human Rights Commission on the Bhatta-Parsaul violence, thus delaying finalisation of the rights body's report on the issue. According to NHRC officials, the deadline ended over a month ago and the Commission will finalise the report on the police firing and allegations of rape in two villages of Greater Noida during the farmers'...
10:22 AM, Sep 25, 2011
London: Efforts to rake up the alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir by backbenchers in the UK Parliament virtually fell flat as the debate on the issue drew few takers, even as the government here asserted that it was for India and Pakistan to resolve the problem bilaterally. "No matter how well intentioned, any attempts by the UK or other third parties to mediate or prescribe solutions (to...
01:36 PM, Sep 16, 2011
New Delhi: More than 2,000 corpses have been found buried in several unmarked graves in Indian Kashmir, believed to be victims of the divided region's separatist revolt, a government human rights commission said in a report. The graves were found in dozens of villages near the Line of Control, the military line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. "At 38 places visited in north Kashmir, there were 2,156 unidentified dead...
11:31 PM, Aug 21, 2011
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