Award seen as Nobel Prize for human rights won by Kabul women’s rights activist and jailed Tajik lawyer The Martin Ennals Award, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for human rights, is to go to Zholya Parsi, a women's rights activist in Afghanistan, and imprisoned Tajik lawyer Manuchehr Kholiqnazarov. 11/20/2024 - 7:59 am | View Link
Free Narges Coalition and partners urge UN Human Rights Council to intervene for Narges Mohammadi’s urgent medical release We, the undersigned free expression and human rights organizations, write to you in response to the recent news that jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi is in urgent need of ... 11/18/2024 - 5:08 am | View Link
Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace laureate hospitalized, her foundation says Judicial and security officials are obligated to respect her human rights and protect her health." Mohammadi has been arrested 13 times and has been sentenced to more than 32 years' imprisonment. 10/27/2024 - 9:21 pm | View Link
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli airstrikes Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured dozens in central Beirut, officials said, as diplomats scrambled to broker a cease-fire.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the death toll could rise as emergency responders dug through the rubble looking for survivors. DNA tests are being used to identify the victims, it said, adding that 63 people were wounded.
MANILA — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the President, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.
Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin referred the “active threat” against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
NASA spotted a very young planet. It could become a super-Earth. MashableDiscovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet Science@NASAAstronomers Discover a ‘Newborn’ World, the Youngest Known Transiting Exoplanet Smithsonian MagazinePlanet 10 times the size of Earth is one of the youngest ever found New ScientistYoungest planet ever discovered has misaligned orbit, puzzles scientists Yahoo!