Editor Selection

Source: FIDH Op-ed written by Karim Lahidji, FIDH President, at the occasion of Rouhani’s first anniversary as the president of the country. The diplomats are delighted. One year after Hassan Rouhani was elected president, relations […]

Source: New York Times By RACHEL NOLAN JUNE 16 Eliza Griswold wrote the June 15 cover story about U.S. Special Operations forces in Africa. She is the author of “The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault […]

Source: New York Times By WILLIAM GRIMES JUNE 12, 2014 Papyrus fragments of Sappho poems are part of the “Marks of Genius” show at the Morgan. Credit Emon Hassan for The New York Times THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM […]

Source: WLUML The present report focuses broadly on developments in the United Nations regarding violence against women, its causes and consequences, over approximately 20 years. The objective is to provide a snapshot view of these […]

The development of women’s charters, manifestos and declarations serve as a demand for change and improvement in the status and lives of women; they are an articulation of the need for gender justice.

Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society newsletter – issue 73 year VI

Source: RFERL By Karim Lahidji and Guissou Jahangiri June 13, 2014 Much noise was made about the unprecedented voter turnout for the first-round elections in Afghanistan on April 5, with almost 7 million people (60 percent of […]

With the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict taking place in London, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini says ministers should take the advice of women who are working at the frontlines to end all sexual violence.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights publish today a report detailing prison conditions in Bahrain. This report brings the voices of current and former detainees directly to […]