Human rights activists taught online tactics
Source: BBC By Sean Coughlan: BBC News education correspondent An international training institute to teach online tactics for human rights campaigners is being set up in the Italian city of […]
US ‘turns blind eye to human rights’
Source: China Daily By Cheng Guangjin and Pu Zhendong (China Daily) China slammed the human rights record of the United States on Sunday in response to a Washington report, saying the […]
Breaking NEWS!
Source:Phonix via Irfan Khan of Germany. Today on 21.04.2013, at 17.00 houtrs Phönix will broadcast “Roland Berger” awards ceremony in the field of Human Rights. Dr Asma Jahangir of Pakistan has been honoured to get the award for her noble work in the field of “Women Rights in Pakistan” Congratulations to […]
Forced disappearances key problem
Source: The Daily Star The United States has identified forced disappearances, discrimination against marginalised groups, and poor working conditions and labour rights are the significant human rights problems in Bangladesh. In its annual human rights report, the State Department criticised a host of human rights problems in Bangladesh, particularly arbitrary […]
Hasina rejects blasphemy law
Source: The Daily Star Sheikh Hasina speaks to the BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan during an exclusive interview in Dhaka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, has firmly rejected the demand for […]
Saudi Arabia’s Feminist Revolution Has Begun
Source: The Daily Beast: Saudi women attend the Gulf youth conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on April 28, 2012. (Hassan Ammar/AP) The Kingdom’s government is reportedly allowing women to ride bicycles now. How nice—but what about actually doing something to end the country’s gender apartheid, asks David Keyes. More: […]
Bangladesh’s war-crimes tribunal – Justice is better late than never
Courtesy: The Economist Mar 23rd 2013 |From the print edition IN 1961 Israel kidnapped Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and put him on trial for crimes committed 20 years earlier. Eichmann had been secretary at the Nazis’ Wannsee conference that led to the Holocaust. His trial in Jerusalem was a […]
Bangladesh honours 13 Pakistanis for 1971 support
Bangladesh honours 13 Pakistanis for 1971 support Courtesy: Zee News Dhaka: Bangladesh on Sunday honoured 13 “Pakistani friends” for their outstanding moral support during its nine-month long liberation war, 42 years after they defied risks of persecution by the then military junta. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina handed them over the […]
Hundreds of New Yorkers protest political unrest in Bangladesh
source: pix11.com http://landing.newsinc.com/wpix/video.html?freewheel=91044&sitesection=wpix&VID=24614910 http://embed.newsinc.com/Single/iframe.html?WID=1&VID=24614910&freewheel=69016&sitesection=wpix&width=601&height=338 NEW YORK (PIX11)- Hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the United Nations today. The group, predominantly Bangladeshi-Americans, came together over political unrest in Bangladesh. Life in the small South-Asian country has been disrupted over the past several months, many blaming Jamaat-e-Islami militant political group. The protesters outside of the […]
ISLAM COMPATIBLE WITH UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORM: APP
Islam compatible with universal human norms, Muslim scholars say NEW YORK, March 7 (APP): A conference of leading Muslim scholars from across the world, held in Istanbul earlier this week, adopted a strongly worded resolution that reaffirmed Islam’s compatibility with universal human norms and called on religious institutions in Afghanistan, Pakistan and neighbouring countries […]
Opponents of Girls’s Right Violate Islam, Pakistan UN Ambassador: Dawn .com
Opponents of girls’ right to education violate Islam, ambassador tells United Nations From the Newspaper | Masood Haider Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan. –APP File Photo UNITED NATIONS: “Those who deny women and girls their right to education, violate Islam,” Pakistan’s UN Ambassador Masood Khan told an audience […]
Saudi Arabia to behead seven on Tuesday: rights group
Courtesy: Reuters RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is scheduled to execute seven men on Tuesday for crimes committed when they were juveniles aged under 18, the British-based rights group Amnesty International said. The seven were sentenced to death in 2009 for an armed robbery in 2006, but Amnesty quoted the […]
Unpatriotic, Inhumane and Unislamic protests follow after Bangladesh court verdict of death sentence to Jamat-e-Islami leader for War Crimes
Bangladesh police say death toll in rioting over death sentence for Islamic … Washington Post DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh police say death toll in rioting over death sentence for Islamic leader reaches 42. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten […]
Indonesia: Religious Minorities Targets of Rising Violence
Government Inaction, Discriminatory Laws Embolden Militant Groups (Jakarta) – The Indonesian government is failing to protect the country’s religious minorities from growing religious intolerance and violence, Human Rights Watch said […]
Bangladesh’s ‘Pakistani’ party
Courtesy: Hindustani Times Indrajit Hazra Dhaka, February 26, 2013 The signs are there all over Dhaka. If it’s not blatant demands to “hang the war criminals” in posters and billboards surrounding Shahbagh Square where Bangladesh erupted on February 5, there are murals depicting demonic Islamist fundamentalists on the […]
Jamaat-e-Islami Leader Ghulam Azam justified attacks on Bangalees
Courtesy: The Daily Star War crimes accused Ghulam Azam at a meeting at Rawalpindi in Pakistan 18 days before the Victory justified the attack on Bangalees saying it was his duty. “We [Azam and the organisations under his control] have assisted the Pakistan Government in taking measures against the […]
Deconstructing the Shahbagh Square protests
Courtesy: DAWN.com Bangladeshi students and pro-government supporters gather during a rally demanding death to Islamic political party leaders who are on trial for alleged war crimes during the country’s 1971 independence war, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. Eight top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country’s largest Islamic party, are […]
IMRAN KHAN, LeJ MUST STOP TERRORISM IN THE NAME OF ISLAM: DAWN
LeJ must stop terrorism in the name of Islam: Imran DAWN.COM | 2 hours ago A strongest contender for Pakistan’s top position in the next elections, Superstar Imran Khan, leader of Tahrik-e-Insaf in a recent Indian TV interview told the female host that his stop priority will be establishing “the rule […]
Burnt alive for Sorcery: Do we really care for Universal Human Rights
Following Editorial has been written in response to the following news: Accused witch tortured, burned alive in Papua, New Guinea Time for leaders to condemn sorcery killings Papua New Guineans […]
UN lauds new tool enabling individual complaints on economic, social and cultural rights
UN.org: 6 February 2013 – The United Nations has applauded the upcoming availability of a new human rights instrument which, for the first time, will allow victims to file complaints […]