Montly Archive February 2014
Media release: Breaking the Silence – No end to illegal abortions
Media release – Kabul, 14th February 2014 IMC PRODUCTIONS: A NEW MUST READ AND LISTEN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT Breaking the Silence – No end to illegal abortions By Khuja Basir Fetri and Zarghoona Salehi Desperate families […]
Monday، 17 February، 2014WHO Multi-country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence against Women
Initial results on prevalence, health outcomes and women’s responses Source: World Health Organization Donload and Read FULL Report HERE This report presents initial results based on interviews with 24 000 women by carefully trained interviewers. […]
Monday، 17 February، 2014Congress Cuts US Military and Development Aid for Afghanistan
Source: Washington Post With no perceptible opposition from the Obama administration, Congress has quietly downscaled Washington’s ambitions for the final year of the Afghan war, substantially curtailing development aid and military assistance plans ahead of […]
Monday، 17 February، 2014Aziza Khayrandish: “If the price of peace is sacrificing justice… it will be catastrophic for the women of Afghanistan”
Aziza Khayrandish is a human rights activist and the director of the Civil Society and Human Rights Network in Herat
Sunday، 16 February، 2014Afghanistan’s Bagram jail holds dark truths
Source: Khaleej Times 14 February 2014 BBC’s Yalda Hakim was recently given unprecedented access to Afghanistan’s Bagram jail. She describes what she saw. It is not often that you are given access to a maximum-security […]
Saturday، 15 February، 2014Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 56 year VI
Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 56 year VI
Friday، 14 February، 2014FIDH Position note: Failed Promises in Bahrain: Human Rights Violations Linger On
Cairo, Paris, 13 February 2014 – On the occasion of the third anniversary of the popular uprising that started on February 14, 2011, FIDH urges the Bahraini authorities to take immediate measures to restore the […]
Thursday، 13 February، 2014Afghanistan releases 65 prisoners against objections from US
Source: The Guardian Group let out of Parwan detention centre by Hamid Karzai are accused by US military of killing Afghan and Nato forces. Afghanistan has released 65 accused militants from a former US prison […]
Thursday، 13 February، 2014Mohammad Farid Hamidi: “Your children are the backbone of a strong and progressive Afghanistan”
A well-known lawyer in Afghanistan, Mohammad Farid Hamidi is Deputy Director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, where he has been a Commissioner for the past 11 years.
Thursday، 13 February، 2014Dr. Habiba Sarabi: “The existence of an independent Afghan identity fills me with joy”
Dr. Habiba Sarabi is the first and only woman to be appointed a provincial governor in Afghanistan: she served as the Governor of Bamiyan province from 2005 until 2013.
Wednesday، 12 February، 2014
