Human Rights

ISLAMABAD; 11 Sep 2018; (AP) — Afghan rights workers are warning that the U.S. national security adviser’s blistering attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a climate of impunity in Afghanistan, prolong the war and embolden those carrying out acts of violence.

In a speech Monday, John Bolton said Washington would not cooperate with The Hague-based court and threatened it with sanctions, saying it put U.S. sovereignty and national security at risk.

WASHINGTON ; 11 Sep 2018; (AP) — America’s long-running reluctant relationship with the International Criminal Court came to a crashing halt as decades of U.S. suspicions about the tribunal and its global jurisdiction spilled into open hostility, amid threats of sanctions if it investigates U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Two Kashmiris have been killed by Indian security forces in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.

Security forces launched a search operation in Galoora area of Handwara early this morning following information about the presence of Kashmiri separatist fighters there, police spokesman said.

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No causality of Indian security forces were reported.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, slammed India for its inaction on rights violations report in Kashmir

In the opening remarks of her first address to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Bachelet criticised India on not addressing issues highlighted in the UN report on human rights violations in Kashmir, and said that the people of Kashmir had the same rights to justice and dignity as people all over the world.

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RAMALLAH, Palestine, Sept 10 (NNN-XINHUA) - Palestine Liberation Organisation's (PLO's) official, Adnan Husseini, said that, Israel "is giving an official cover to its plans to control" Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Husseini made the remarks, in response to the participation of an Israeli minister, in a tour by a group of settlers, into the holy site. The tour was considered by Palestinians "an incursion."

MOSCOW, September 9. /TASS/. Phosphorous bombs were used by the US air force warplanes to deliver a strike on the settlement of Hajin in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor governorate on September 8, chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties Vladimir Savchenko said on Sunday.

"On September 8, 2018, two F-15 warplanes of the US air force delivered airstrikes on the settlement of Hajin with the use of phosphorous bombs. The airstrikes caused heavy fires. Information about casualties and damages is being verified," he said.

Muzaffarnagar, Sep 9 (PTI) A 20-year-old Dalit youth was beaten to death by unidentified persons at Budhana town here, police said on Sunday.

The youth went missing on Friday and his body was found in a field a day after, Station House Officer (SHO)Perbhaker Kentura said.

He said a case was registered against unidentified persons based on a complaint by the youth's father Ram Kishan .

The deceased, identified as Kapil, had injuries to his head, the SHO said, adding that the body was handover after post mortem.

UN, September 6. /TASS/. The United States should disclose the list of its possible targets in Syria if they believe that chemical weapons are being stored there, Russia’s UN envoy, Vasily Nebenzya, told the UN Security Council session on Syria on Thursday.

MOSCOW, September 7. /TASS/. The United States can forward information concerning preparations for an alleged attack involving the use of chemical weapons in Syria’s Idlib to Russia though bilateral conduits, if Washington has such information, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday. The spokeswoman responded to the remarks by US Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey who said that there was plenty of evidence proving that Damascus was getting ready to conduct a chemical weapons attack in Idlib.