Montly Archive March 2016
We clench our fists on International Women’s Day and chant the song of peace and equality
Once more 8 March has arrived, but we cannot celebrate equality yet. We celebrate 8 March every year to commemorate centuries-long struggles of women to achieve peace and equality and to remind all actors who mark the contemporary events: Inequality is still reigning in the most “equal” lands on the earth; women are still regarded as second-class citizens in the 21st century. At the heart of Asia, we have our eyes on the women of our region, whose freedoms and rights are still stoned every day and burned in flames of war, under pressures from political and ideological extremism, violence of politicians and discriminatory laws. Nevertheless, they do not step back from their struggle.
Tuesday، 8 March، 2016The UN calls on Uzbekistan to address a long list of women’s rights violations
FIDH Paris-Geneva – The United Nations has taken an important stand for women’s rights in Uzbekistan, consider FIDH and its member organisation “Fiery Hearts Club”. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women […]
Monday، 7 March، 2016Honduras: Murder of the prominent human rights defender Berta Cáceres
FIDH Paris-Geneva, March 3, 2016 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights, a joint FIDH-OMCT program, strongly condemns the murder of Ms Berta Cáceres, Leader of the Lenca indigenous community. This murder demonstrates […]
Monday، 7 March، 2016OXFAM: A place at the table Safeguarding women‟s rights in Afghanistan
OXFAM Briefing Paper ‘Women want peace but not at the cost of losing our freedom again.’ Noorjahan Akbar, co-founder of Young Women for Change Women in Afghanistan have achieved real progress in areas such as political […]
Friday، 4 March، 2016I Am A Feminist, So I Will Not Be Voting for Hillary
We are only halfway to understanding women’s ‘agency’
Infochange India Feminism’s deepest belief is that women’s voices must come to the fore, but when they do, we find these voices often scuttle our assumptions about what should be the right/legitimate form of ‘agency’. […]
Friday، 4 March، 2016Afghanistan: Forced Gynecological Exams As Sexual Harassment and Human Rights Violation
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) READ AND DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE Most of the women accused of the crimes, defined by the judicial and justice organs as moral crimes undergo medical tests. They are […]
Friday، 4 March، 2016Sexual Assault in the Name of Science in Afghanistan
HRW Heather Barr/ Senior Researcher, Women’s Rights Division Each year, dozens or even hundreds of women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected to invasive, humiliating, and sometimes painful vaginal and rectal exams in the name of […]
Friday، 4 March، 2016
