Geneva: Syrian forces and pro-government militia accused of committing a massacre in Houla could face prosecution for crimes against humanity, the United Nations said on Friday and rights experts said Syrian authorities had directly ordered torture. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called again for the Security Council to refer Syria to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and for world powers to help implement Kofi...
09:48 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Guwahati: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday expressed concern over the rise in crimes against women in Assam but described the situation as better on the issue of rights violations. "The data available with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) shows that Assam is ranked second in the country in the category of crime against women. Most of the cases are related to kidnapping, rape and cases of...
03:02 AM, May 30, 2012
"Read the Constitution of India with IBNLive" seeks to bring us close to the Constitution that governs us. The Indian Constitution is a living and dynamic document and we, the people of India, need to be aware of our rights and duties as citizens and to hold the government that we elect to its responsibility as enshrined in the Constitution. It is precisely because the Indian Constitution is a social...
12:10 PM, May 25, 2012
Reuters: The future face of Formula One should be decided in the next few months with the sport's governing body yet to play what could be a key hand, Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn said on Wednesday. The immediate spotlight has been on plans for the flotation of Formula One, with an announcement this week that three investment firms have bought a 21 percent stake in the sport from private...
11:48 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: To tackle overcrowding in prisons across the country, the National Human Rights Commission has suggested holding of night courts in jails for trial of petty offences. NHRC Chairperson KG Balakrishnan said various strategies could be employed to bring down the prison population like ensuring that police does not make any arrest indiscriminately and also providing legal aid to the poor. He said the number of undertrial prisoners is...
09:40 AM, May 13, 2012
Riyadh: A Saudi man found guilty of hitting his wife has been sentenced by a court to read the Quran and two Islamic books on relations between spouses. He will later sit for a test on what he learned from the books. The man was told to memorise five of the 30 parts of the Quran, as well as 100 sayings by Prophet Mohammad, the Gulf News reported citing Saudi...
08:45 AM, May 11, 2012
Bangkok: China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. In Egypt's conservative, Muslim-dominated society, laws prohibiting "shameless public acts" have been used to imprison gay men in recent years. Even some gay rights activists in the Philippines are opposed to same-sex marriage. And in Malaysia, the government has twice prosecuted a prominent opposition leader on charges of sodomy, which is punishable by 20 years in prison. While gay-rights activists...
04:37 PM, May 10, 2012
The right to information, the right to work, the right to education, the right to food and now the right to pension. Watching Sagarika Ghose's ...
08:50 AM, May 10, 2012
The story begins with an incident in the life of a Sikh family which is targeted after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The narrative follows the wedding of Ashu, the daughter of the man who died due to Sikh violence and the granddaughter of influential Tara Singh, a famous industrialist. The author Shamini Flint has interjected bouts of humour, which makes it a very interesting read. The author manages to...
01:10 PM, May 09, 2012
All elderly people over 60 years from the BPL category get Rs 200 per month as pension under the Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme. ...
11:58 PM, May 08, 2012
Washington: A woman in the US state of Indiana sent her gay son to school with a stun-gun to counter students bullying him. Chelisa Grimes did it after administrators apparently didn't do enough to stop the bullying against her son. The mother says she will do it again - even though the teen now faces expulsion, CNN reported on Monday. "I do not promote violence - not at all -...
09:24 AM, May 08, 2012
Patna: The Bihar government has undertaken a slew of measures, including constituting a flying squad to eradicate child labour from the state. The flying squad would carry out raids to free working children and file a case against their employer, Principal Secretary (Labour) Vyasji told a seminar 'Child Rights and Law'. The state government has also proposed to strengthen the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and ration cards will be...
01:50 AM, May 07, 2012
Kabul: The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations. The plight of 15-year-old Sahar Gul captivated the nation and set off a storm of international condemnation when it came to light in late December. Gul's husband's father, mother and sister were each sentenced to 10...
04:54 PM, May 06, 2012
Srinagar: As many as 129 Army personnel, including three dozen officers, were found guilty of human rights violations mostly in Jammu and Kashmir and North East in the last two decades, defence sources have said. Following the establishment of human rights cell in 1993, the Army has received more than 1,500 allegations of rights violations against its men but most of these have been found false and baseless, they said....
04:42 PM, May 06, 2012
Beijing: US and Chinese officials are ironing out a deal to secure American asylum for a blind Chinese legal activist who fled house arrest, with an agreement likely before Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives this week, a US rights campaigner said on Monday. Bob Fu of the Texas-based rights group China aid said that China and the US want to reach agreement on the fate of Chen Guangcheng before...
04:13 PM, Apr 30, 2012
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