Human Rights News - International Business Times India : page 8

News

Feminism has a new slogan in Pakistan: 'Warm your own food!'

A university student's Urdu placard from Aurat March 2018 saying "Khud Khana Garam Karlo" has become the rallying cry for feminists in Pakistan.

Apr 6, 2018

Shahid Afridi asks why no UN intervention to stop 'bloodshed' in Kashmir

Former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi alleged that the voices of self determination and independence are being silenced in Kashmir.

Apr 3, 2018

Play

Linda Brown Thompson reflects on landmark Supreme Court case Brown V. Board Of Education 50 years later

Linda Brown Thompson spoke at the University of Michigan on January 12, 2004 about becoming the girl at the center of the Supreme Court ruling that ended racial segreation in schools.

Mar 28, 2018

Play

Starbucks has achieved pay equity in the U.S.

Starbucks announced on March 21 that it has achieved 100 percent pay equity for women and men, and employees of all races in the U.S..

Mar 22, 2018

Play

Man wins $390,000 in gender discrimination lawsuit

An Austrian man has won $390,000 in compensation after he was discriminated against on the basis of his gender. Transport ministry official Peter Franzmayr was found to be more qualified for a managerial role than Ursula Zechner, who got the job.

Mar 21, 2018

Apple India, Women empowerment, health, wistron, World Women day

Play

Women's Day 2018: Apple shares first insight on their pro-women measures in India

Apple India has collaborated with St John's National Academy of Health Sciences to impart health education, early cancer detection for women in Bengaluru.

Mar 8, 2018

Man wanted to divorce wife because of her 'inability to cook tasty food', courts thought otherwise

The Bombay High court has upheld a family court's order that dismissed the divorce petition of a man who alleged that his wife did not cook well for the family and abused his parents.

Mar 3, 2018

Play

Mike Pence believes abortions will end in our time

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence believes that there will be an end to legal abortion in our time. Pence, a strong anti-abortion advocate, was speaking at a anti-abortion organizations luncheon in Nashville, Tennessee.

Feb 28, 2018

Play

Amnesty accuses President Trump of human rights violations

Human rights organization Amnesty International has provided a scathing review of human rights worldwide in its annual report.The report mentions Donald Trump alongside leaders of Russia, China, Egypt, the Philippines and Venezuela as violating human rights.

Feb 22, 2018

Play

Congolese refugees march out of camp in protest at food cuts

Around 2,000 people from the 17,000-stong Karongi camp in Western Rwanda marched out of the camp on February 20 to protest reduced food rations at their camp.

Feb 22, 2018

Was Google wrong in firing Tim Chevalier? Axed transgender engineer thinks so, sues the company

Tim Chevalier thought he was right in using extreme campaign methods to highlight the disparity in the company and Google thought the employee's actions were against office decorum and fired him.

Feb 23, 2018

Play

Man detained after going through legal means to get Green card

On Jan, 31 Jose Ivan Nuñez was attending a meeting to receive his green card when he was unexpectedly detained by ICE agents. His husband spoke at a press conference organized in association with Juntos, an organisation in Philadelphia fighting for the human rights of the Latino immigrant community.They are demanding he is freed from detention and fear his life would be in danger if he returned to Mexico due to his sexuality.

Feb 21, 2018

Iraq frames plans to deal with ISIS families: Amendment made to 1980 law to accommodate their children

Shia al-Sudani, the Iraqi minister of Labor and Social Affairs, believes that the ISIS children 'had no fault in what happened.'

Feb 19, 2018

Play

Remembering Susan B Anthony, an icon of the womens suffrage movement

Womens rights leader Susan B. Anthony was the first woman printed on the U.S. dollar coin. She is considered an icon of the womens suffrage movement and helped pave the way for a womans right to vote.

Feb 15, 2018

Burka, niqab ban likely in Denmark: Bill proposes hefty fine for violators

The Danish government is considering a ban on face-covering attires like burka and niqab in public places.

Feb 7, 2018

Prev 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Next

IBTIMES TV

Gully Boy day 2 box office collection: Ranveer Singh's movie suffers big drop but still earns in double digit

7 hours ago