Calls and Statements

17th session of the ASP to ICC Speech delivered on 6 Dec. 18 in The Hague by Guissou Jahangiri, FIDH Vice President & Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Exec. Director: Provide the Court with the resources it needs, in Burundi and Georgia, Afghanistan & Palestine.

The conviction of former Khmer rouge leaders for forced marriages & sexual crimes stemming from them and their qualification as crimes against humanity set an important precedent in international law. The court’s verdict ensured that the perpetrators of forced marriages were properly punished & victims received justice.”Guissou Jahangiri, FIDH Vice President

“After a preliminary examination that lasted a decade, an additional year of waiting for victims is unacceptable.” Guissou Jahangiri, FIDH Vice-President and Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Executive Director

OPEN ASIA/ Armanshahr joins hundreds of organisations and personalities calling on the Government of Spain to undertake the necessary steps for the recovery of the Universal Jurisdiction of Spain. The recent political change produced in Spain must necessarily bring, is the reversal of setbacks in terms of human rights, recovering, the lost ground.

This election showed us the good, the bad, and the ugly of today’s Afghanistan – the good was the bravery of citizens who defy widespread violence to vote; the bad was the sheer mismanagement of the electoral process by the authorities, which created an environment conducive to fraud; the ugly was the Taliban’s deplorable violence and terror against civilians.

Violence against women remains pervasive today in Tajik society. Survivors of domestic violence told Human Rights Watch harrowing stories of the worst kinds of abuse, including sadistic violence committed by perpetrators, all across the country across every socioeconomic category.

Despite increasing attacks by various terrorist groups, a lack of genuine vetting of candidates, and the fact that the terms of the ongoing high level “peace settlements” with the Taliban remain unknown to the public, Afghans continue to show they have faith in the election process notably an independent young generation of civil society members and women

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture is writing to you to express its deepest concern over the ongoing wave of arbitrary arrests, prosecutions, persecution and judicial harassment of human rights defenders in Iran, including women’s rights defenders.

The Accountability of ‘Major Powers’ for Alleged Serious Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Challenges and Prospects. Conference and Launch of Discussion Paper, Hague Humanity Hub, Fluwelen Burgwal 58, 2511 CJ The Hague, Netherlands, 1 October 2018

OPEN ASIA|Armanshahr among 127 Rights groups call for immediate release of Nabeel Rajab after UN group (WGAD) calls his detention arbitrary and discriminatory.