Human Rights
Afghanistan: Joint call for an immediate end to attacks against human rights defenders and need for protection and accountability
Afghanistan: Joint call for an immediate end to attacks against human rights defenders and need for protection and accountability The threats, harassment, intimidation and attacks against human rights defenders, activists, journalists and media workers in Afghanistan […]
Wednesday 19 May 2021ICAN : U.S. Policy in Afghanistan – What Withdrawal Means for Afghan Women & the Future
ICAN May 17th 2021 On May 7th, the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) hosted a high-level discussion featuring key Afghan women and policy leaders long engaged in the situation in Afghanistan. In […]
Monday 17 May 2021Studio B, Unscripted: With Elif Shafak and Wole Soyinka
Two writers discuss the rewriting of history, culture wars, multiple identities and the storyteller’s duty to speak up. In this episode of Studio B: Unscripted, renowned novelist and academic Elif Shafak sits down with award-winning […]
Monday 17 May 2021FIDH – The Observatory : In Israel, campaigns to discredit Israeli, Golan and Palestinian human rights defenders
In Israel, campaigns to discredit Israeli, Golan Palestinian human rights defenders. Geneva-Paris, April 27, 2021 — From slander and campaigns to deter donors, to restrictive legislation and judicial obstruction, the Israeli Government’s smear and harassment […]
Monday 17 May 2021The Situation in Afghanistan : Amicus Curiae to the ICC from Open Asia|Armanshahr and FIDH
Afghanistan women and girls fall victim to violence once more. According to the Afghan War Casualty Report, May 2021 marks the highest number of humans killed and injured since October last year. Many believe […]
Wednesday 12 May 2021Statement – The Observatory – AFGHANISTAN: Urgent action needed to protect women rights defenders
AFGHANISTAN: Urgent action needed to protect women rights defenders Paris-Geneva, April 14, 2021 – Women human rights defenders in Nangarhar Province are at high risk of being killed following death threats issued by the Islamic […]
Thursday 15 April 2021197th Dialogue : “Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Glossary from A to Z”: in the wake of decades of struggle against anti-women violence
197th Dialogue “Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Glossary from A to Z”: in the wake of decades of struggle against anti-women violence A report on the conference launching Words Matter Campaign: 61 words, 61 […]
Wednesday 31 March 2021Statement – The Observatory – AFGHANISTAN: Attacks on civil society and human rights defenders intensify
Paris-Geneva, March 4, 2021 – Over the past five months, the situation of human rights defenders and journalists has deteriorated significantly in Afghanistan, with at least fourteen targeted killings and constant harassment reported. The Observatory […]
Thursday 4 March 2021More than 75% of Syrian refugees may have PTSD, says charity Syria Relief
The Guardian, originally published on Monday 1 Mars 2021. By Kaamil Ahmed. ‘There is a huge amount of damage you can’t see – the mental trauma’, says Syria Relief report author. More than three-quarters of […]
Monday 1 March 2021A Syrian Asylum-Seeker’s Case Reframes Migrant Abuses as Enforced Disappearances
The Intercept, originally published on February 28 2021. By John Washington. Fady roamed the bus depot in Didymoteicho, Greece, in November 2016, holding up his phone to waiting strangers, showing them a photo of his […]
Monday 1 March 2021
