Editor Selection
Afghanistan/Women and the Elections: Facilitating and Hindering Factors in the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections
This policy note analyses motivations for women voting & running for elections, & factors that facilitate and/or hinder their participation as voters & candidates; & key policy recommendations that address challenges in parliamentary & district council elections.
Wednesday 20 April 2016Make way for Justice #2: 40 cases to understand universal jurisdiction
NGOs TRIAL, FIBGAR, ECCHR and FIDH publish for the second consecutive year their annual report on universal jurisdiction. Make way for Justice #2 reviews criminal cases which have, in 2015, involved this groundbreaking but underused […]
Wednesday 20 April 2016Terror attack in Kabul: civilian deaths rise as impunity prevails, Press release FIDH- Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA
FIDH and its member organisation in Afghanistan Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA Press Release Kabul, Paris, 20 April 2016 – FIDH and its member organisation in Afghanistan Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA strongly condemn the heinous terrorist attack that took place […]
Wednesday 20 April 2016The UN calls on Uzbekistan to address a long list of women’s rights violations
FIDH Paris-Geneva – The United Nations has taken an important stand for women’s rights in Uzbekistan, consider FIDH and its member organisation “Fiery Hearts Club”. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women […]
Monday 7 March 2016Honduras: Murder of the prominent human rights defender Berta Cáceres
FIDH Paris-Geneva, March 3, 2016 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights, a joint FIDH-OMCT program, strongly condemns the murder of Ms Berta Cáceres, Leader of the Lenca indigenous community. This murder demonstrates […]
Monday 7 March 2016OXFAM: A place at the table Safeguarding women‟s rights in Afghanistan
OXFAM Briefing Paper ‘Women want peace but not at the cost of losing our freedom again.’ Noorjahan Akbar, co-founder of Young Women for Change Women in Afghanistan have achieved real progress in areas such as political […]
Friday 4 March 2016I Am A Feminist, So I Will Not Be Voting for Hillary
We are only halfway to understanding women’s ‘agency’
Infochange India Feminism’s deepest belief is that women’s voices must come to the fore, but when they do, we find these voices often scuttle our assumptions about what should be the right/legitimate form of ‘agency’. […]
Friday 4 March 2016Afghanistan: Forced Gynecological Exams As Sexual Harassment and Human Rights Violation
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) READ AND DOWNLOAD FULL REPORT HERE Most of the women accused of the crimes, defined by the judicial and justice organs as moral crimes undergo medical tests. They are […]
Friday 4 March 2016Sexual Assault in the Name of Science in Afghanistan
HRW Heather Barr/ Senior Researcher, Women’s Rights Division Each year, dozens or even hundreds of women and girls in Afghanistan are subjected to invasive, humiliating, and sometimes painful vaginal and rectal exams in the name of […]
Friday 4 March 2016
