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Montly Archive January 2021

OPEN ASIA|Armanshahr Foundation has joined an open letter by 55 NGOs to Biden: support access to justice for all by rescinding Trump-era executive order impeding ICC’s work

OPEN ASIA|Armanshahr Foundation has joined an open letter by 55 NGOs to Biden: support access to justice for all by rescinding Trump-era executive order impeding ICC’s work.   Dear Mr. President, The International Federation for Human […]

Thursday، 28 January، 2021

Biden’s Challenge: Redeeming a US Role for Human Rights

Human Rights Watch – World Report 2021 Introductory remark by Kenneth Roth.   After four years of a president who was indifferent and often hostile to human rights, the November 2020 election of Joe Biden […]

Wednesday، 27 January، 2021

This is how democracies die

The Guardian By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. Blatant dictatorship – in the form of fascism, communism, or military rule – has disappeared across much of the world. Military coups and other violent seizures of power are […]

Wednesday، 27 January، 2021

Kabul Under Siege: Op-Ed

Tolo News By William Maley, Professor. Published 28 December 2020. Kabul is a city under siege. It may not be besieged in the way that Berlin was in April 1945, but the daily lives of its […]

Wednesday، 27 January، 2021

Afghan Peace: Illusion and Reality

Tolo News By Afrasiab Khattak, Former Member of Pakistan’s Senate, Analyst. Published on October 11 2020. A month after the beginning of the intra-Afghan talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government, there has been […]

Wednesday، 27 January، 2021

Interview: Hard-Won Victories for Refugees in Greece – How Ten Years of Advocacy and Incremental Changes Add Up

Humans Rights Watch by Amy Braunschweiger and Eva Cossé In Greece, a recent high-profile court ruling and policy change mark momentous human rights victories for migrants and children. On October 7, an Athens court ruled that the […]

Tuesday، 26 January، 2021

Joe Biden Will Have to Address the War in Afghanistan—Again

The New Yorker By Steve Coll January 20, 2021 When Joe Biden became Vice-President, in 2009, tens of thousands of American troops were fighting a spreading Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, and the war loomed as one of […]

Friday، 22 January، 2021

The Other Pandemic: Fighting Inequality as We Beat Back Covid

Human Rights Watch By Lena Simet and Komala Ramachandra and Sarah Saadoun At the dawn of 2020, our world was already in crisis. High and rising economic inequality meant that someone born with few resources could see their basic human […]

Tuesday، 19 January، 2021

Afghan Leaders Sideline Spokesmen in an Escalating Misinformation War

The New York Times By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Fahim Abed and Najim Rahim Published Jan. 10, 2021Updated Jan. 15, 2021 The Ghani administration and the Taliban are fighting a public-relations battle, with the government taking more drastic measures to control the flow […]

Tuesday، 19 January، 2021

Seven new Armanshahr publications for Persian readers

Good news for our Persian readers! 2020-21 has been LABORIOUS for Armanshahr|OPEN ASIA. Seven new & free to download books ranging from Feminism, Sexual and Gender Based Violence to Literature notably three books by RIP Master Rahnaward Zaryab, the great Afghanistan writer.

Monday، 18 January، 2021