media lethal protestors 11 covid19 kurds covid vaccines women twoday verifyerrors international apocalypselaws bride drc epidemic disease kurdistan 55 kidnapped currently according way project triggers executes itâs mass global himalayas

Articles for Ihr

Iran hangs 26-year-old ‘talented student’ for second time on murder charges: NGO
1 month, 1 week ago

Iran hangs 26-year-old ‘talented student’ for second time on murder charges: NGO

Live Mint  

Iran hanged a 26-year-old man for a second time Wednesday months after a previous execution was halted half a minute in, an NGO said. Ahmad Alizadeh was arrested in October 2018 on a murder charge, which he denied, and was sentenced to death, Norway-based Iran Human Rights, which tracks executions in Iran, said in a statement. "Ahmad Alizadeh, a talented …

Execution Second Time Ihr Ngo Iran
The Supreme Court of India spells the way in Himalaya’s development
5 months, 4 weeks ago

The Supreme Court of India spells the way in Himalaya’s development

The Hindu  

It is a well-established fact that the Indian Himalayan Region is both India’s water tower and also the critical provider of invaluable ecosystem goods and services. In view of some of the recent judgments of the Supreme Court of India, we seem to be headed towards a more robust rights-based regime where sustainable development would be a fundamental right. In …

India Climate Change Disaster Development Change Climate Court
How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics
6 months, 4 weeks ago

How the World Health Organization could fight future pandemics

The Hindu  

Health officials from the 194 member states of the World Health Organization hope next week to complete more than two years of negotiations on new rules for responding to pandemics when they gather in Geneva. Negotiations go to the wire on Friday for two complementary deals set to be formalised at the May 27-June 1 meeting: an update to existing …

Health Emergency Rules Covid Tedros Ihr Pandemic Treaty
Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies: NGO
7 months ago

Iran hangs two women as surge in executions intensifies: NGO

The Hindu  

Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, an NGO said. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran along with five men convicted …

Men Iran Iranian Execution Islamic Ngo Ihr
Moulding the Himalayas needs caution
1 year ago

Moulding the Himalayas needs caution

The Hindu  

As the efforts to evacuate 41 workers trapped in a tunnel near Silkyara in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand are weeks away from fruition, the infrastructure development trajectory in the Himalayas comes under serious clouds — once again. The Char Dham Project, all-weather roads, being constructed by the National Highway Authority of India in Uttarakhand, linking the four religious pilgrimages …

Construction Uttarakhand Region Project Nhai Eia Bro
Restoring the ecological health of the Himalayas
1 year, 2 months ago

Restoring the ecological health of the Himalayas

The Hindu  

The environmental devastation caused in the Himalayan States of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim has reinvigorated the debate on the “carrying capacity’ of the regions. The Supreme Court of India, in response to a petition filed by a retired Indian Police Service officer, has asked the Union government to suggest a way forward regarding the carrying capacity of the Indian …

Environment Court States National Institute Capacity Himalayas
The Indian Himalayan Region needs its own EIA
1 year, 2 months ago

The Indian Himalayan Region needs its own EIA

The Hindu  

The Teesta dam breach in Sikkim in early October and the recent floods and landslides in Himachal Pradesh are a stark reminder of the havoc our development model is wreaking on our environment and ecology especially in the mountains. The basis of an EIA Environment Impact Assessment is one such process defined by the United Nations Environment Programme as a …

Environment India Climate Change Environmental Indian Region Projects
Iran Executes Two Men for Desecrating Quran on Social Media, Prompting Outrage
1 year, 7 months ago

Iran Executes Two Men for Desecrating Quran on Social Media, Prompting Outrage

News 18  

Iran on Monday hanged two men on charges of spreading blasphemy on social media, prompting US condemnation and accusations from Amnesty International the Islamic republic has reached a “new low” in a spree of executions. “They were hanged solely for social media posts in a grotesque assault on the rights to life and freedom of religion.” In Washington, State Department …

Social Media Human Rights Media Rights Men Iran Iranian
Brazen in the face of protests, Iran has executed 55 people so far
1 year, 10 months ago

Brazen in the face of protests, Iran has executed 55 people so far

Firstpost  

Experts say security forces have shown “a flagrant disregard for human life,” after a protest movement against the Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has subsided since November last year. Paris: In a move that is considered to create fear as protests shake the country, Iranian authorities have executed 55 people this year, said Norway-based Iran Human Rights, adding that …

Death Rights Protests Iran Iranian Human Islamic
Iran executes two more men in connection with protests, draws international condemnation
1 year, 11 months ago

Iran executes two more men in connection with protests, draws international condemnation

Firstpost  

Paris: Iran drew international condemnation on Saturday as it executed two men for killing a paramilitary force member in November during unprecedented protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody. Judicial news agency Mizan Online reported that “Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, the main perpetrators of the crime that led to the martyrdom of Ruhollah Ajamian, were hanged …

Death Men Iran Tehran Iranian Khamenei Ihr
Iran executes two men in connection with anti-hijab protests
1 year, 11 months ago

Iran executes two men in connection with anti-hijab protests

New Indian Express  

The European Union said it was "appalled" by the executions. "This is yet another sign of the Iranian authorities' violent repression of civilian demonstrations," the spokesperson for the bloc's foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said in a statement, urging an immediate end to death sentences against protesters. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights, said both men …

Death Men Iran Iranian Khamenei Ihr Karami
Year Ender 2022: Iran protests that challenged the regime pushing for change
1 year, 11 months ago

Year Ender 2022: Iran protests that challenged the regime pushing for change

Hindustan Times  

More than 100 days of protests in Iran have shattered taboos and shaken the ideological pillars of the Islamic republic in a push for change that has defied a fierce crackdown. Iran, for its part, accuses hostile foreign powers of stoking the "riots", chiefly its arch-foe the United States but also other Western nations such as Britain and France as …

Protests Iran Western Regime Islamic Ihr
Scores of protesters in Iran facing potential capital punishment; 11 already sentenced to death
1 year, 11 months ago

Scores of protesters in Iran facing potential capital punishment; 11 already sentenced to death

India Today  

Hundreds of protesters in Iran are facing charges punishable by death, Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights has said. According to a report, as many as 100 detainees are facing potential capital punishment, including at least 11 already sentenced to death. “By issuing death sentences and executing some of them, want to make people go home,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam was …

Death Iran Ihr Facing Potential
Will a Nazi poet's Christmas carol remain in book of hymns?
2 years ago

Will a Nazi poet's Christmas carol remain in book of hymns?

Hindustan Times  

Christianity and its customs were a thorn in the side of the National Socialists. New Christmas carols during the Nazi era Entirely new Christmas carols were also composed during the Nazi era, including the strongly propagated song "Hohe Nacht der klaren Sterne". Among the newly written Christmas carols during the Nazi era was the piece "Wisst ihr noch, wie es …

Song Christian German Protestant Franz Carols Christmas Carol
Iran triggers outrage with first execution over protests
2 years ago

Iran triggers outrage with first execution over protests

Firstpost  

Mohsen Shekari had been convicted and sentenced to death for blocking a street and wounding one of the security guards during the early phase of the protests Paris: Iran carried out its first known execution Thursday over the protests that have shaken the regime since September, sparking an international outcry and warnings from rights groups that more hangings are imminent. …

Death Rights Protests Iran Tehran Iranian Execution
Women In Iran’s Conservative Region Join Mahsa Amini Protests
2 years ago

Women In Iran’s Conservative Region Join Mahsa Amini Protests

ABP News  

New Delhi: Black-clad women in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province on Friday, joined nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, in what a rights group called a rare move in the staunchly conservative region. “It is indeed rare,” the IHR director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, said of the protests by women in Zahedan, where men have been taking to the streets after …

Women Protests Iran Iranian Security Forces Ihr Baluchi
Mahsa Amini Death: Iran Cracks Down on Kurds, Security Forces Kill 12 in 24 Hours
2 years, 1 month ago

Mahsa Amini Death: Iran Cracks Down on Kurds, Security Forces Kill 12 in 24 Hours

News 18  

Iranian security forces on Monday intensified a crackdown in western Iran’s Kurdish-populated regions that killed a dozen people over 24 hours, directly shooting at protesters and using heavy weapons, rights groups said. The outage affected “multiple cities,” freedom of expression group Article 19 said, warning on Twitter: “The right to life is severely compromised under the darkness of a #internetshutdown.” …

Rights Iran Kurdish Iranian Group Twitter Killed
Iran protesters rally again despite Guards order to stand down
2 years, 1 month ago

Iran protesters rally again despite Guards order to stand down

The Hindu  

Iranian protesters rallied again Sunday, defying an order by the powerful Revolutionary Guards to stop the demonstrations—now in their seventh week—sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Students gathered overnight and Sunday across Iran, even after Major General Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, had warned demonstrators: “Do not come to the streets!” Amini, 22, died in …

Tehran Security Forces Ihr Iranian Protesters Guards Order
Iran protests: Security forces open fire at anti-hijab protestors in latest crackdown
2 years, 2 months ago

Iran protests: Security forces open fire at anti-hijab protestors in latest crackdown

Firstpost  

The crack of gunfire interrupted demonstrators’ chants in the cities of Isfahan and Karaj and in Amini’s hometown Saqez, in videos shared by two Norway-based human rights organisations Tehran : Gunshots were fired as Iranian security forces confronted protests Wednesday over Mahsa Amini’s death in a crackdown that rights groups say has already cost at least 108 lives with many …

Security Rights Tehran Iranian Forces Security Forces Isfahan
Death toll from Iran unrest climbs to 31 as protests spread
2 years, 3 months ago

Death toll from Iran unrest climbs to 31 as protests spread

The Hindu  

At least 31 civilians have been killed in an Iranian security forces crackdown on protests that erupted over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police, an Oslo-based NGO said Thursday. and the government is responding to their peaceful protest with bullets,” Iran Human Rights director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said in a statement, publishing a …

Security Death Protests Iran Killed Guard Protesters
Concern mounts at 'lethal' Iran crackdown on protests
2 years, 3 months ago

Concern mounts at 'lethal' Iran crackdown on protests

The Hindu  

The United Nations and rights groups expressed concern on Tuesday over what activists described as a lethal crackdown in Iran against protests over the death of a young woman after her arrest by Tehran's notorious morality police. New York-based Human Rights Watch said that witness accounts and videos circulating on social media "indicate that authorities are using teargas to disperse …

Social Media Death Rights Protests Iran Security Forces Kurdistan
Chandrakant Lahariya | Monkeypox’s challenge: It’s also an opportunity
2 years, 4 months ago

Chandrakant Lahariya | Monkeypox’s challenge: It’s also an opportunity

Deccan Chronicle  

On July 23, the World Health Organisation declared the monkeypox disease as a “public health emergency of international concern”. However, monkeypox was the first and only time that the IHR emergency committee had not advised yet the WHO director-general, who decided to designate it as PHEIC and is fully empowered to do so. This is also the first time that …

Health India Disease Vaccines Countries Virus Monkeypox
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
2 years, 7 months ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “There are linear fractures throughout this outcrop, and …

Health Social Media Climate Change Social Deaths Mars Afghanistan
Pandemic The Apocalypse(Laws To Rescue)
3 years, 5 months ago

Pandemic The Apocalypse(Laws To Rescue)

Live Law  

Wash your hands, stay inside the house, quarantine yourself and save yourselves and others life. Public Health Act is also one of the law which prevails at international level to look after the pandemic and according to the entailment of the country or world during the pandemic the WHO also from time to time issues certain guidelines as per the …

Law Health India International Pandemic Disease Public Health