Tripura CM condoles Lakshmi Sehgal’s death
July 23rd, 2012 - 11:20 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, July 23 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar and his Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday expressed deep shock over the death of veteran freedom fighter Lakshmi Sehgal."The downtrodden ... Read more...
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Opposition disrupts Tripura assembly over rape incident
March 22nd, 2012 - 10:27 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, March 22 (IANS) The Tripura assembly Thursday witnessed unprecedented bedlam as the opposition Congress created a ruckus demanding a probe into the alleged "mass rape of two young tribal ... Read more...
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All 269 guilty in Vachathi mass rape, assault case
September 29th, 2011 - 10:34 pm ICT by IANS
Dharmapuri (Tamil Nadu), Sep 29 (IANS) Nearly two decades after a brutal assault on tribals by police, forest and revenue officials in Vachathi village and the rape of 18 women, ... Read more...
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Gaddafi gave sex drugs, ordered rape of women?
June 9th, 2011 - 3:55 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 9 (IANS) Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered mass rape and gave sex drugs to his troops to encourage them to attack women, the chief prosecutor of the International ... Read more...
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Mayawati slams centre’s compensation to injured farmers
May 23rd, 2011 - 12:33 am ICT by IANS
Lucknow, May 22 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Sunday flayed the central government for what she termed as a "political gimmick" of announcing compensation of Rs.50,000 to farmers ... Read more...
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Over 30 women beaten, raped in Congo on New Year’s Day
January 7th, 2011 - 4:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Over 30 women were beaten and raped in eastern Congo on New Year's Day.The Guardian quoted the aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as saying that 33 ... Read more...
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240 victims of mass rape in Congo: UN
September 2nd, 2010 - 5:15 am ICT by IANS
United Nations, Sep 2 (IANS) The UN Wednesday said the number of civilians who had been brutally gang raped recently in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo now exceeds ... Read more...
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More than 150 women raped in Congolese village, says UN
August 24th, 2010 - 3:30 pm ICT by IANS
Nairobi/Goma, Aug 24 (DPA) More than 150 women have been raped by rebels in a remote area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, an aid agency and the UN said.
A Rwandan rebel ... Read more...
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UN sees wartime rape as big challenge
August 7th, 2010 - 5:43 am ICT by IANS
United Nations, Aug 7 (IANS) Wartime rape is one of the greatest challenges of modern times, yet it remains low on the agenda of global policy efforts, the UN
said Friday.UN secretary-general's ... Read more...
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UN: Over 8,000 women raped in 2009 during armed conflicts in Congo
April 16th, 2010 - 12:25 am ICT by BNO News
UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) – The United Nations (UN) announced Thursday a week-long visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) where both rebels and the national army have been accused ... Read more...
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Pakistan’s army: living in a state of strategic denial (Comment)
August 5th, 2009 - 11:06 am ICT by IANS
By C. Uday Bhaskar
A two-day international conference on genocide that concluded in Dhaka July 31 exhorted the UN to recognise the mass killings and rape that the Pakistan Army had unleashed ... Read more...
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