Events

Armanshahr Foundation/OPEN ASIA, in collaboration with French Institute Afghanistan (IFA), organised several programmes to mark its 20th birthday during the Human Rights Week (4-7 2016), in Goharshad University and the IFA premises, where several progressive personalities of Afghanistan addressed the meetings. This year was the 4th successive year that Armanshahr and IFA were organising the Human Rights Week.

3-day Morning workshops hold from 4-6 December 2016 at the university of Gowharshad University with the participant of 35 Young women and men (21 women and 14 men), they include human rights and children’s rights activists and B.A. level students).

Armanshahr Foundation/OPEN ASIA, in collaboration with French Institute Afghanistan (IFA), organised several programmes to mark its 20th birthday during the Human Rights Week (4-7 2016), in Goharshad University and the IFA premises, where several progressive personalities of Afghanistan addressed the meetings. This year was the 4th successive year that Armanshahr and IFA were organising the Human Rights Week.

human rights and freedoms in Kyrgyzstan and consider that the upcoming Constitutional Refendum will negatively impact democratic principles of Kyrgyzstan, in particular the rule of law, the separation of powers, the independence of the judiciary, and human rights and fundamental freedoms.

NEW ISSUE Armanshahr HR & Civil Society NEWSLETTER No.183

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November 2016 provides another opportunity for us to address and condemn the widespread, systematic, legal and customary violence and discrimination that afflict physically and psychologically half the population of the world.

Saturday, 22 October 2016 – During the closing ceremony of “the 4th International Women’s Film Festival – Herat” in Continental Hotel, Kabul, winners of the 4th International Women’s Film Festival – Herat received their awards.

The International Women’s Film Festival is honored to invite you to the Opening Ceremony of the 4th edition of the “International Women’s Film Festival – Herat” taking place this year at the Gardens of Babur in Kabul.

With just four months left for President Obama to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, as he promised when he first took office in January 2009, we confess that we do not share the optimism of those we know who think the president will finally fulfill his long-unfulfilled promise, as Congress is still almost fanatically opposed to his plans, and it will be difficult to close the prison and move the men to another facility or facilities on the mainland without lawmakers’ support.

When poor countries started producing oil, they thought that was the key to economic growth and prosperity. Since then, the impact of resource wealth on producing countries has been the subject of endless debate.