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STATEMENT Afghan Women’s Network: Where Are the Women?
Afghan Women’s Network, its 117 member organizations and more than 3000 members has had visible contribution and accomplishments in awareness, mobilization and political participation of women during the last three election terms, Loya Jirga’s, Consultation Jirga’s.
Saturday 26 July 2014ACBAR Press Release: Violence against aid workers and facilities must end
24 aid workers have been killed in Afghanistan (21 Afghan colleagues and 3 International colleagues) in several security incidents. There are different causes and actors involved, but it caused as many fatalities among aid workers as during the first six months of 2014.
Monday 14 July 2014International Crisis Group – Statement on Afghan Elections
Source: ICG Afghanistan has reached a critical moment in the development of its democratic system. In the coming days, the behaviour of the two candidates in the presidential contest – and the conduct of the […]
Sunday 13 July 2014Report Release: Locked Inside a Nightmare: Voices from Bahraini Prisons
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights publish today a report detailing prison conditions in Bahrain. This report brings the voices of current and former detainees directly to […]
Wednesday 11 June 2014FIDH commends its member Adilur Rahman Khan and the Mothers of Kharavan as recipients of 2014 Gwanju Prize
Source: FIDH FIDH would like to congratulate the Mothers of Kharavan (an Iranian movement for justice) and Adilur Rahman Khan (Secretary General of Odhikar, FIDH’s member organisation in Bangladesh) for being awarded the 2014 […]
Friday 16 May 2014The UN Security Council must refer Syria to the ICC
Source: FIDH Paris, 13 May 2014 – The UN Security Council is discussing a resolution proposed by France to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC). A vote on the resolution […]
Wednesday 14 May 2014IRAN: International Workers’ Day: Release all trade unionists arbitrarily detained in the country
Source: FIDH Paris-Geneva, April 30, 2014 – On the eve of May 1, 2014, International Workers’ Day, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, is drawing attention to the […]
Thursday 1 May 2014Peaceful Protest against the passing of the weak draft of mineral law by the Wolusi Jirga
Source: Heinrich Boll Stiftung The Wolusi Jirga of Afghanistan is about to vote on the mineral law of the country inside parliament, while Afghan civil society specially the Natural Resources Monitoring Network (NRMN) has been […]
Wednesday 30 April 2014FIDH LDDHI Open Letter to Navi Pillay on Evin Prison
25 April 2014 Paris, France To: Ms. Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights CC: Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Re: Attacks in Evin Prison […]
Tuesday 29 April 2014FIDH LDDHI Information Note on Evin Prison
Outline of Events that took place on 17 April and the days following in Evin Prison (based on prisoners’ testimonies) • 17 April attacks o At 9:30 am on 17 April, now dubbed by prisoners […]
Tuesday 29 April 2014
