Calls and Statements

Joint FIDH and Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA report Executive Summary Afghanistan has been torn by war for more than 30 years. At least 70% of the population was born after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and has […]

A quarter of a century ago, in the summer of 1988, thousands of Iranian political prisoners who had already been tried and were serving prison sentences, stood show summary re-trials and were executed.

UN NEWS CENTER: Opening remarks by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay at a press conference during her visit to Afghanistan Kabul, 17 September 2013 Good morning, and thank you for coming. This […]

HRW to President Karzai: Implement Elimination of Violence Against Women Law. “The presidential election approaching, as Afghanistan’s leader & as the president who signed the EVAW Law, you will want to leave with a lasting legacy of respect for women’s rights.”

BBC The body representing judges in Chile has made an unprecedented apology for the actions of its members under military rule in the 1970s and 1980s. It a statement, it said that the judiciary at […]

    FIDH and its member organization, the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI), express the disappointment at recent statements by Iranian high-level officials regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran’s persistent […]

An alliance of 36 Afghan and international civil society organisations have urged the Afghan government and its donors to deliver on their commitment to effective oversight in the country’s extractives sector. The call, made in letters sent to the Afghan Minister of Mines, Wahidullah Shahrani (http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalWitness/929710e6d6/18f696b56d/6462613399), and key international partners (http://cts.vresp.com/c/?GlobalWitness/929710e6d6/18f696b56d/c95e81902f) comes ahead of a crucial meeting taking place in Kabul on the 3rd July.

The session considered reports from the following seven State parties: Afghanistan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Serbia, and United Kingdom.

Western governments look like they are turning their back on Afghanistan after a decade of aid and assistance but this is a dangerous approach, as history shows.

In various parts of the world human rights defenders brave legal harassment, arbitrary detention, ill treatment, torture and sometimes death, in seeking to secure freedom and dignity for all. In challenging serious abuses of State […]