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Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 77 year VI

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 […]

The undersigned organisations working with and for human rights defenders (HRDs) welcome the adoption by the Council of the European Union (EU) of the 23 June 2014 Conclusions on the 10th Anniversary of the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders.

opendemocracy.net By DAVID PETRASEK The Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein (“Prince Zeid”), has just been nominated as the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The […]

One in three women report physical or sexual abuse since age of 15, with largest number of victims in Denmark Source: The Guardian Violence against women is “an extensive human rights abuse” across Europe with one in […]

The two men vying to be the next president of Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, have pledged to protect women’s rights, which have in the past year become a political bargaining chip.

The elections and their runoff for the first ever peaceful transformation of power in Afghanistan took place amid tight security on April 5th and June 14th 2014.

Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 76 year VI

Source: Reuters (Reuters) – Talks between Iran and six world powers aimed at clinching a deal on Iran’s contested nuclear programme should include human rights concerns, the U.N. human rights chief said on Thursday. U.N. […]

Women in Syria have been arbitrarily arrested and detained, physically abused, harassed, and tortured during Syria’s conflict by government forces, pro-government militias, and armed groups opposed to the government, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.