Montly Archive September 2015

This week’s issue of Armanshahr HR & Civil Society Newsletter No.137

We, the undersigned, are gathering to form an independent alliance of women-led civil society actors and organizations working to prevent and counter all forms of extremism. Our purpose is to bring synergy and greater coherence to our existing collective efforts, to advance gendered understandings of and responses to extremism, and to collaborate strategically in providing clear alternatives that bring a just peace for all.

We are publishing the call for the 4th Simorgh International Peace Prize, while flames of war are engulfing the world and countless humans are taking to the sea to flee the demon of war, to seek a shelter and achieve relative calm from fear for food and their lives.

source:The diplomat.com For three decades Afghanistan was the world’s largest producer of refugees. Millions have returned but problems remain. By Catherine Putz Afghanistan’s refugee crisis is decades old. Afghans began fleeing the country after the […]

Position Paper Senior Officials Conference on Afghanistan September 05, 2015 Afghanistan is being burned by conflict and insecurity. Every day, many brave soldiers and children of this country falls; the enemy is no longer around […]

Author(s): Charles J. Sullivan (Guest contribution) The city of Kabul has fallen on three occasions over the past generation: to the mujahedin in 1992, the Taliban in 1996, and the Northern Alliance (supported by a […]

Dear Mrs. Hayes, We write to you ahead of the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in September in Kabul to urge the United Kingdom to strengthen its support for the protection and promotion of human rights […]