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With Afghanistan’s educated class growing rapidly over the past decade while education resources remain scarce, there is an increasing need for a functioning public library system, AAN’s Qayoom Suroush argues.

Nicole Haberland, Deborah Rogow, Ofelia Aguilar, Doortje Braeken, Jessie Clyde, Caroline Earle, Denise Kohn, Bene Madunagu, Grace Osakue, Corinne Whitaker Published 2009 Education on sexuality and HIV can help adolescents develop the capacity for healthy, […]

The outline Iran nuclear deal has highlighted divisions in the region—not just between majority Shia and Sunni states but between those supporting the status quo and those challenging it.

IDH is proud to announce its support for the premiere of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi’s latest film, Taxi Téhéran, on 14 April in Paris at the MK2 Quai de Seine cinema, in partnership with Memento Films.

Two decades after the Fourth World Conference on Women, women and girls around the world deserve better than this year’s CSW outcomes

Women human rights defenders in Afghanistan who face mounting violence – including threats, sexual assault and assassinations- are being abandoned by their own government despite the significant gains they have fought to achieve, Amnesty International said in a new report today.

Overview Every day, all over the world, people are executed by the state as punishment for a variety of crimes – sometimes for acts that should not be criminalized. In some countries it can be […]

The abominable attack on Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya requires a measured response by Kenyan security forces to bring to justice those responsible and prevent further attacks

By extending the mandate of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran for another year, the Human Rights Council has recognized that serious human rights violations continue to take place in the country, and that international attention on human rights should not be diverted by the ongoing nuclear negotiations.