Construction work is expected to be completed in 2025 The house in Austria where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born will be converted into a human rights training center for police officers, BBC reported. The announcement was made by Austria’s Interior Ministry announced last week, after years of debate over how best to prevent it from becoming a […]
According to the Human Rights report, drastic loss of aid will leave many Afghans poorer and hungrier. Kabul: Afghanistan remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters as Human Rights Watch in a recent report on Afghanistan said that two-thirds of the country’s population is food insecure, reported Tolo News. “Afghanistan has largely disappeared from […]
The company behind dating app Tinder is leaving Russia. (File) Washington: The company behind dating app Tinder is leaving Russia, more than a year after the invasion of Ukraine saw a wave of international companies close or suspend their Russian operations. Match Group said on Monday that it will quit Russia by June 30 because […]
The Sakharov Center features exhibitions on Soviet repression and human rights. (File) Moscow, Russia: A museum emblematic of Russia’s post-Soviet human rights movement has shut its doors in Moscow amid a clampdown on freedoms since the onset of the Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine. The Sakharov Center, dedicated to Nobel Prize winning rights activist Andrei Sakharov, […]
The UN report called for fostering “demographic resilience”. (Representational) Geneva, Switzerland: Rather than fixating on the impact of the world’s soaring population, the world should look at women’s reproductive rights to shore up “demographic resilience,” the UN said Wednesday. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) — the UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency — acknowledged […]
