Damascus : At least 200 people were killed and hundreds wounded in Homs in the most brutal government crackdown till date in the 11-month old uprising in Syria, activists have said. Two main opposition groups, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees claimed that the death toll was over 200 […]

Mangalore, Jan 18: Karnataka State Human Rights Commission chairperson S. R. Nayak, said that modern states will have to face terrible situation if they fail to eradicate difficulties of poverty and hunger in large number. He was speaking after inaugurating a UGC-sponsored national seminar titled ‘Developmental Agenda and Human Rights: A Special Focus on DK’ […]

BEIRUT : Syrian forces killed 111 people ahead of the start of a mission to monitor President Bashar al-Assad’s implementation of an Arab League peace plan, activists said on Wednesday, and France branded the killings an “unprecedented massacre”. Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 111 civilians and activists were killed in […]

Mangalore : The Karnataka Justice Forum will hold a conference on protection of human rights at the Jamiyathul Falah Conference Hall at 2:30 p.m. on Oct 16 Sunday. Speaking at the press meet held at Woodlands held on Oct 13 Thursday, Ismat Pajir said that during the conference they will demand the release of Abdul […]

Mangalore: Dr M Veerappa Moily, Union Law Minister inaugurated a two day UGC sponsored National Seminar on “Human Rights – Changing Trends and Challenges in India” at St Agnes College on September 23, Friday. The seminar was organized by the Department of Political Science and Human Rights Education Cell of St Agnes College. Speaking on […]

Bangalore : Energy Minister Shobha Karandlaje promised members of SC and ST communities to integrate them in the mainstream society. Releasing the Karnataka State Report on implementation of SCs and STs (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the state in 2010 here on Thursday, she further gave a clarion call to the public to provide emotional […]

Mangalore: At the SDM Law college in city on Friday in an RTE Act implementation programme, the resource person Philip Mathew informed that the Act was put in to post in 2010, Wherein the Government made children’s education up to 14 years age(8th/10th standard), compulsory and free. If young people are not considered adults still […]

Mangalore : The People’s Union for Civil Liberties regret for people of the state for the crores of money being misused by the state government in the name of tax for the temples and mutts. At the meeting organized by the state council of PUCL on Saturday, decided to pressurize the state government to change […]

Mangalore: Justice Dr. S.R Nayak heading Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KHRC) said here on Friday at an academic meeting, that human rights are inseparable from humanity; hence enterprises, management authorities and the media should inculcate the high values of humanity in society. A 2-day national conference has been organised by HR Cell of AJ […]

Mangalore: Dakshina Kannada district stands first in Karnataka in a list for police atrocities and Suppression of human rights, said Justice M.F.Saldanha, a retired Judge of Karnataka High Court today. He was releasing a fact-finding report on State Terrorism and Police atrocities in the coastal area, based on an enquiry by people’s tribunal, of PUCL […]