CAIRO: Egypt’s popular political figure Mohamed ElBaradei, the former president of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the co-founder of the al-Dostor Party, criticized the course of the current political transition phase in Egypt on Tuesday. He reiterated his warning that the election of a president according to the current constitutional declaration issued by [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Free Front for Peaceful Change Movement accused in a statement on Tuesday the Muslim Brotherhood’s political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) of attempts to “disrupt the drafting of the constitution, and the selection of the members of the Constituent Assembly, so as to ensure controlling the powers of the next president [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian Catholic Church issued a statement on Tuesday confirming that it stands neutral and objective, and does not prefer a certain presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential race, stressing that it “respects the freedom of its followers and their right to choose who they see as the most viable.” The Council of Catholic [...]
CAIRO: Khaled Ali, Egypt’s possible next president, has told Bikyamasr.com that that his plan to govern Egypt is based on the basis of social justice for every Egyptian, confirming quick steps if is stepping in his first steps as a new president of Egypt. “My first decision will be canceling the peace treaty with Israel,” [...]
CAIRO and KUALA LUMPUR: An Indonesian lawmaker has said that “Middle East culture” is as dangerous as allowing American pop star Lady Gaga to perform in the Southeast Asian country. The statements came after Indonesia refused to issue Gaga a permit to perform at her sold-out Jakarta concert as Islamists in the country attacked her [...]
CAIRO: Raafat Saleeb, a leader of the Copts of the United States of America and resident of Los Angeles, issued a press release on Tuesday, on behalf of the Egyptian Copts in America, emphasizing that after considering the presidential candidates` electoral programs, and “their political, economic and background amd practical experience, they found that all [...]
KATHMANDU: It has been four years in the making, but finally, and many wonder how, politicians in Nepal has agreed on a new constitution. The agreement, announced on Tuesday, has many Nepalis hopeful that the infighting and politicking can come to an end. “It’s good,” began one waiter in the capital. “I just hope it [...]
BANGKOK: Thailand is in a frenzy over a video showing Thai army soldiers having sex with a woman. The anger grew this week after the government reported the woman was autistic. A number of women’s rights activists and groups are demanding that the government prosecute the soldiers for possible rape, arguing that the woman may [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Suzie* is a lesbian. A Malaysian lesbian. Yet she struggles with her daily life. When she speaks openly about her life, many accuse her of trying to “convert” other girls to being gay. “It’s daily, people will ask me what it is like to be a lesbian in Malaysia and I tell them,” [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian man has accused the country’s police of torturing him as a result of his participation in the Bersih 3.0 protest. According to local reports, the 24-year-old activist went to give a statement at a local police station, but was then detained and tortured. Mohd Safuan Mamat was quoted by Free Malaysia [...]
Cairo – Saudi Arabia has announced it will re-open its embassy in Egypt, after closing it in late April due to massive protests. The conflict began when Ahmed al-Gizawi, an Egyptian human rights lawyer, was arrested in April by Saudi security forces upon arriving in the country to take part in the umrah, an Islamic [...]
On the 64th anniversary of Al Nakba, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) hails the courage and resilience of thousands of Palestinian prisoners as they continue to peacefully struggle for their basic rights and freedoms. We positively note that an agreement was reached between representatives of around 2,000 Palestinian hunger strikers inside Israeli [...]
Iranian authorities killed Makwan Mouloudzadeh on December 5, 2007. Six months earlier, a court had convicted Mouloudzadeh — a youth of Kurdish descent from near Kermanshah — of raping others three boys when he was 13. However, his accusers retracted their claims; no evidence against him remained. In November, Iran’s chief justice had overturned the death [...]
CAIRO: Data coming from the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday has posted inflation to its highest rate in 9 months on an annual basis in April, despite an ongoing price decline in its trade and business hub Dubai. Annual consumer price growth in the $360 billion economy, the second largest among Arab countries, picked up [...]
NAIROBI: The Rwanda Revenue Authority will launch an Electronic Sales Device (ESD) to counter fraudulent transactions and tax evasion by individuals. The device is set to be launched in June and it will cost $300 and $600. Ben Kagarama, Commissioner General commented that people are undertaking practices such as falsifying invoices so as not to [...]
CAIRO: The Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGLs) of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has selected The American University in Cairo (AUC) alumnus and assistant professor Ayman Ismail, as one of two of Egypt’s most influential and inspirational figures in 2012. This recognition is granted annually by the WEF to honor the world’s most distinguished [...]
New Delhi: A police officer in the western Indian state of Maharashtra is in the dock after a woman he allegedly assaulted and locked up on charges of soliciting for sex, was pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh has been petitioned by a global human rights organization to launch [...]
New Delhi: In a typical illustration of the long winding patriarchal Indian political discourse, the country’s parliamentarians want to stop the “indecent portrayal of women”. Cut down to basics, Indian MPs now want sexy, pouting women off television, especially in advertisements which they believe reduces woman to a commodity. Ad film makers and broadcasters in [...]
New Delhi: Delhi is the capital of India is old hat. The brutal gang-rape of a middle aged woman in a hospital toilet, a public garden and her subsequent murder back at the same hospital is only reinforcing the image of Delhi, as the sadist capital of sex crimes. Police say they have arrested three [...]
NEW DELHI: ‘Kali Ma’ a beer launched by an American company has begun fizzing even before being sold in India. The Indian Parliament on Wednesday heard an animated discussion by its parliamentarians who now want the government ask the United States Ambassador to apologize for using the name of a Hindu goddess ‘Kali Ma’ or [...]
New Delhi: In a typical illustration of the long winding patriarchal Indian political discourse, the country’s parliamentarians want to stop the “indecent portrayal of women”. Cut down to basics, Indian MPs now want sexy, pouting women off television, especially in advertisements which they believe reduces woman to a commodity. Ad film makers and broadcasters in [...]
CAIRO and KUALA LUMPUR: An Indonesian lawmaker has said that “Middle East culture” is as dangerous as allowing American pop star Lady Gaga to perform in the Southeast Asian country. The statements came after Indonesia refused to issue Gaga a permit to perform at her sold-out Jakarta concert as Islamists in the country attacked her [...]
NEW DELHI: ‘Kali Ma’ a beer launched by an American company has begun fizzing even before being sold in India. The Indian Parliament on Wednesday heard an animated discussion by its parliamentarians who now want the government ask the United States Ambassador to apologize for using the name of a Hindu goddess ‘Kali Ma’ or [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian Catholic Church issued a statement on Tuesday confirming that it stands neutral and objective, and does not prefer a certain presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential race, stressing that it “respects the freedom of its followers and their right to choose who they see as the most viable.” The Council of Catholic [...]
CAIRO: Raafat Saleeb, a leader of the Copts of the United States of America and resident of Los Angeles, issued a press release on Tuesday, on behalf of the Egyptian Copts in America, emphasizing that after considering the presidential candidates` electoral programs, and “their political, economic and background amd practical experience, they found that all [...]
Iconic French film star and animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot has asked German authorities to allow her to switch places with jailed Sea Shepherd Conservation Society chief Paul Watson, who was arrested and jailed in Germany. “I have always supported Paul Watson, my brother in arms,” she said in a statement. Watson, the Canadian national [...]
Goa (INDIA) A ruling parliamentarian from the Western Indian state of Goa has accused his own party’s government in the neighboring state of Maharashtra of allowing iron ore mining to run riot and pollute water-bodies in Goa. Speaking in the House of Elders on Wednesday Shantaram Naik said that “environment experts in Goa have expressed [...]
NEW DELHI: Climate change will denude and put under additional stress, the Himalayan forests, the Indian government fears. A federal government report has said that these Himalayan forests are already reeling under threats like excessive livestock grazing, over extraction and human impact. India’s Environment Minister, Jayanthi Natarajan released the country’s communiqué to the UN Framework [...]
NAIROBI: The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has funded a rural ICT program that was aimed at impacting the local community with ICT skills for self- sustainability and economic progress in Arua secondary. Armando Angulibo, Training Coordinator commented on the exercise saying it was projected towards community empowering through the use of ICT. The training took [...]
NAIROBI: In a bid to make its citizens more ICT versatile, the Rwanda’s Ministry of Disaster and Refugee Management have launched an ICT driven approach where they are giving sectors interned based cell phones to be used to communicate better upon the strike of a disaster. Darla Rudakubana, the ministry’s communications specialist commented that the [...]
NAIROBI: The advancement of health care technology would better place Kenya by bridging the existing gap in health care services, the World Bank said. Khama Rogo, World Bank Lead Health Specialist commented stating that better technological advancements would reduce doctor and patient contact. “Technology has now made it possible for people to interact without seeing [...]
MANILA: The Philippine’s government has said it will ensure the welfare of an elephant currently held at the Manila Zoo. The Palace made the statement after UK rockstar Morissey called on President Benigno Aquino III to allow the elephant to go into retirement. Animal rights groups have also called for the animal’s release, after documentation [...]
The International Red Cross (ICHR) has said that thousands of people in South Sudan have been displaced as a result of the ongoing violence between the country and its northern neighbor Sudan. Since the beginning of the year, the ICRC has stepped up its efforts to respond to mounting humanitarian needs in South Sudan. In [...]
NEW DELHI: At least 35 children have died in a fortnight at a top hospital in Jammu and Kashmir, forcing the provincial government to order an inquiry. The children died at the GP Pant Hospital reportedly of encephalitis and R S Chib, Kashmir’s Minister for Medical Education said, blaming doctors at this stage would be [...]
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