Editor Selection

Aziz Deldar is a professor at the Fine Arts School of Kabul University. He is also a filmmaker and actor.

Sonia Iqbal is the executive director and a shareholder of PAHNA Group (a Kabul-based communications and management firm) as well as the president of Afghanistan 1400 Party, a civic-political youth organisation.

Source: FIDH Paris-Geneva, April 30, 2014 – On the eve of May 1, 2014, International Workers’ Day, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, is drawing attention to the […]

Bakht Mohammad Bakhtiar is the Director of the Social Sciences Centre of Afghanistan. He studied for his master’s degree in law in Kiev under the Soviet rule and became a member of the Academy of Sciences.

Source: Heinrich Boll Stiftung The Wolusi Jirga of Afghanistan is about to vote on the mineral law of the country inside parliament, while Afghan civil society specially the Natural Resources Monitoring Network (NRMN) has been […]

Hasina Safi is the Director of the Afghan Women’s Network, an organization of women boasting 5,000 members and 65 member organizations. Safi was featured in the 2011 documentary about the role of women in the war and post-conflict process in Afghanistan.

25 April 2014 Paris, France To: Ms. Navanethem Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights CC: Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Re: Attacks in Evin Prison […]

Outline of Events that took place on 17 April and the days following in Evin Prison (based on prisoners’ testimonies) • 17 April attacks o At 9:30 am on 17 April, now dubbed by prisoners […]

Rafi Behroozian was born in Herat in 1978 and lived in Iran as a migrant for 23 years. He returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. In the last decade he has been a musician and audiovisual media activist. He is the founder of the Daf Cultural Centre.

Professor Seifuddin Sayhoun was one of the principal planners for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs strategy on economic rights and the security of women. He studied economics at university and started teaching at Kabul University’s Economics School in 1994.