Montly Archive July 2019

Human Rights Watch – Twenty-one years ago today, 120 countries adopted the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), creating a permanent international court to hold perpetrators of the world’s gravest crimes to account. […]

ICC The Afghanistan-Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG), Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), (collectively the “Organisations”) respectfully submit these submissions pursuant to the ‘Decision on the “Request for Leave to Submit […]

The ICC has effectively turned its back on the tens of thousands of Afghan victims of a never ending war, write Amal Nassar, Guissou Jahangiri and Anushka Sehmi.

In the past 23 years, Armanshahr has adopted a holistic view and cultural approach and concentrated its work in the field of human rights on combating war & militarism, promoting justice, defending victims, combating systematic violence against women & achieving a just & enduring peace.

The report aims to provide information on the security situation in Afghanistan, which is relevant for international protection status determination (PSD; refugee status and subsidiary protection)

Through the prism of gender,analysis of the connections between political authoritarianism & the gender regime. Authoritative regimes attempt to erase achievements of past feminist struggles that challenge discourses of non-democratic regimes.

Exploring the issue of women and power in Islam with a particular focus on the Middle East, Azadeh Kian offers an overview of four historical periods: the advent of Islam, the medieval period, and the modern and contemporary period.

The report Their last stand? How human rights defenders are being squeezed out inTajikistan, published by the World Organisation Against Torture and FIDH,outlines how the authorities have increasingly restricted the legal space to provide assistance to victims of human rights violations & torture.